The first Muslim to attack Bharat

[Hamza913]

What a lot of people don't know is that the first Muslim to attack Bharat (aka what is now the Republic of India) was a governor of Sindh working for the Khilafah, who went by the name of Junaid Ibn Abdur Rehman Al Marri. Play close attention to his last name. Al Marri. It designates the fact that he belonged to the Marri tribe of the Baloch, which is still present among them today.

In other words, the first Muslim to attack India was from the Indus. He raided Hindu kingdoms in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

Sources:

https://archive.org/details/originsoftheisla032520mbp

Wink, Andre, " Al-Hind The Making of the Indo-Islamic Worlds Vol 1", p208

Blankinship, Khalid Y, "The End of Jihad State ", p132

Misra, Shyam, Manohar, "Yasoverman of Kanau ", p56

For further reading about the Marri tribe:

http://balochculture.blogspot.com/2010/05/marri-tribe.html

@Jugger @Jackdaws @Pan-Islamic-Pakistan @Cobra Arbok @DESERT FIGHTER @Desert Fox @OsmanAli98 @Path-Finder @Talwar e Pakistan

 

[Hamza913]

In b4 RSS nationalists start squealing without reading.

 

[Saiful Islam]

The advent of Islam is interesting in this region. In Bengal it must have been a gradual process for it to become a majority Muslim populace, I have always look to the port cities (Chittagong) & Arakan as the places where Islam made a foothold for Bengal.

Alhamdulillah history of Pak is nice.

 

[Cobra Arbok]

What a lot of people don't know is that the first Muslim to attack Bharat (aka what is now the Republic of India) was a governor of Sindh working for the Khilafah, who went by the name of Junaid Ibn Abdur Rehman Al Marri. Play close attention to his last name. Al Marri. It designates the fact that he belonged to the Marri tribe of the Baloch, which is still present among them today.



In other words, the first Muslim to attack India was from the Indus. He raided Hindu kingdoms in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.



Sources:



https://archive.org/details/originsoftheisla032520mbp



Wink, Andre, " Al-Hind The Making of the Indo-Islamic Worlds Vol 1", p208



Blankinship, Khalid Y, "The End of Jihad State ", p132



Misra, Shyam, Manohar, "Yasoverman of Kanau ", p56



For further reading about the Marri tribe:



http://balochculture.blogspot.com/2010/05/marri-tribe.html



@Jugger @Jackdaws @Pan-Islamic-Pakistan @Cobra Arbok @DESERT FIGHTER @Desert Fox @OsmanAli98 @Path-Finder @Talwar e Pakistan

"Attacked" and "driving a sword through" have rather different connotations. They mayhave attaked rajput kingdoms in gujarat and rajasthan, but those kingdoms sucessfully repelled all invasions from sindh until Bin Qasim. So Bin Qasim was he first muslim to fit your description.


At the risk of derailing tis thread, one can say the marathas drove a sword through the heart of pakistan by successfully invading and sacking everything up to peshawar.


It is possible to make informative threads about groups of peoples without using provocative titles like this.


Still an interesting topic nonetheless.

 

[Hamza913]

The advent of Islam is interesting in this region. In Bengal it must have been a gradual process for it to become a majority Muslim populace, I have always look to the port cities (Chittagong) & Arakan as the places where Islam made a foothold for Bengal.

Alhamdulillah history of Pak is nice.

Asalamu Alaikum

To be quite frank, the first Muslims to come to Pakistan could have been the parents of Mujib Ur Rehman for all I care. I'd still support them if they were Muslims.

This ethnicity/tribal mumbo-jumbo is only brought up so people stop barking that we're just leeching off of the success of foreigners.

"Attacked" and "driving a sword through" have rather different connotations.

You can describe it however you want.

So Bin Qasim was he first muslim to fit your description.

No, because he only conquered the Indus. Not Bharat. And the individual I'm referring to came after Muhammad Bin Qasim.

At the risk of derailing tis thread, one can say the marathas drove a sword through the heart of pakistan by successfully invading and sacking everything up to peshawar.

That's not wrong, because it's exactly what they did. But since I like you I'll change the title.

In Bengal it must have been a gradual process for it to become a majority Muslim populace, I have always look to the port cities (Chittagong) & Arakan as the places where Islam made a foothold for Bengal.

Bangladesh converted mostly due to coastal traders/migrants. This is similar to how some of Southern India converted.

The rest of Pakistan and India were different. The Muslims here converted primarily because of three things:

1. Brute force (dethroning the rulers of the area and imposing Sharia would certainly put Islam into the minds of many).

2. Migrants (they preached and intermarried with others, allowing for Islam to spread).

3. Mercenary work (a lot of tribes saw the Muslim empires as an opportunity to earn easy money, so they joined them and often ended up becoming Muslim because of this).

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

The advent of Islam is interesting in this region. In Bengal it must have been a gradual process for it to become a majority Muslim populace, I have always look to the port cities (Chittagong) & Arakan as the places where Islam made a foothold for Bengal.

Alhamdulillah history of Pak is nice.

Modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh were pre-disposed to Islam from the very beginning. Islam was our destiny, and the whole of history had been leading us and cultivating us to that point.

In Pakistan, we always rejected the caste system and did not care much for Brahmanical Hinduism as Hindustan did. The modern consolidation of Hinduism into one faith happened during the arrival of Islam to the subcontinent. We followed a variety of religions including Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Pagan Irani faiths, and other now extinct faiths before Islam.

 

[Saiful Islam]

Modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh were pre-disposed to Islam from the very beginning. Islam was our destiny, and the whole of history had been leading us and cultivating us to that point.

In Pakistan, we always rejected the caste system and did not care much for Brahmanical Hinduism as Hindustan did. The modern consolidation of Hinduism into one faith happened during the arrival of Islam to the subcontinent. We followed a variety of religions including Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Pagan Irani faiths, and other now extinct faiths before Islam.

The exact same in Bengal. We didn't believe in caste systems from the get go, Alhamdulillah for everything.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

The exact same in Bengal. We didn't believe in caste systems from the get go, Alhamdulillah for everything.

I don’t know much about how Islam started in Bengal. How did it find fertile soil and what conflicts did the early Muslims face?

Here in Sindh (Indus,) we faced daily onslaught and persecution by Hindus and led eventually to our galvanization of various Muslims under one banner. The result was one thousand years of Muslim domination.

 

[Jackdaws]

If he was Arab, he probably conquered some Baloch areas and hence the name.

 

[Hamza913]

If he was Arab, he probably conquered some Baloch areas and hence the name.

No, that's not how these names work. Titles like "Al Qurtubi" and "Al Marri" designate either someone's ancestral origin or where they come from. Not the land that they conquer.

Stop commenting about things you clearly don't know.