- the
suffix "-tar"
indicating a direction. The
Arabic name of the city,
Tustar, is an
adaptation of the
Persian form Shushtar.
Shushtar may be the "Sostra"...
- Susa and
those of
Tustar. A
slightly divergent tradition was
reported by Ibn
Taimiyyah who
stated that the body was
found in
Tustar; that at
night thirteen...
- Daniel,
which was
brought to
light at the time of the
Muslim conquest of
Tustar, and
buried again at the
request of Umar.
Muslim tradition has retained...
- the
mastermind behind Umar's ********ination in 644.
After the
victory at
Tustar, Abu Musa
marched against the
strategically important Susa in
January 641...
-
advance on
Tustar and
engaged Muhammad in combat.
Muhammad was
defeated and
forced to escape, and Ibn
Laythawayh established himself in
Tustar. 'Ali now...
- al-Ash'ari.
After taking most of the
smaller fortified towns the army
captured Tustar in 642
before proceeding to
besiege Susa. A
place of
military importance...
- needed] In 639, al-Ahnaf
returned to
Medina bringing news of the
conquest of
Tustar, and
informing Umar of
affairs in Persia.
After listening to him, Umar said;...
- full-blown anti-Umayyad movement. Al-Hajjaj
tried to stop the
rebels at
Tustar, but the
rebels were
victorious (early 701). Al-Hajjaj
abandoned Basra to...
-
revolted in Sistan,
marched back and
defeated al-Hajjaj's
loyalists in
Tustar in 701, and
entered Kufa soon after. Al-Hajjaj held out in
Basra with his...
- cities—Damascus and
Caesarea in Syria, Babilyn/al-Fusat and
Alexandria in Egypt,
Tustar in
Khuzistan and
Cordoba in Spain—scholars
Albrecht Noth and
Lawrence Conrad...
