Nasr ibn Sayyar

Nasr ibn Sayyar was the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan. For thirty years after the conquest of Qutayba the Arabs had fought Sogdian nobles allied with the Türgesch. They lost the whole country. The war was carried across the Oxus. Under Nasr the front was finally stabilised between Samarkand and Ustrushana, with the nominal submission of the lands further north.^[1] All the chroniclers speak of the prosperity of Khurasan in his time.^[2] He made peace with the Sogdians and accepted all their conditions.^[3] In 740 he pardoned the Sogdian exiles. Tabari gives the reason as their worth in war.^[4] The years of his peace are the years in which Panjikent was rebuilt.^[2]