Muslim conquest of Transoxiana

Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
	Part of the Muslim conquests
	; Arabs besieging the city of Samarkand, captured in 722 CE. Palace of Devastich (706-722 CE), Penjikent mural.
Date	673–751
Location	Transoxiana, Central Asia
Result	Umayyad Caliphate and Abbasid Caliphate Victory Islamization of Transoxiana; End of Chinese dominance and influence in Transoxiana;
Belligerents
Umayyad Caliphate (until 748); Abbasid Caliphate (from 748); Battle of Talas:; Tibetan Empire	Principalities of Tokharistan; Sogdian principalities; Khwarazm; Fergana; Türgesh Kaghanate; Second Turkic Khaganate; Tang dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Sa'id ibn Uthman; Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad; Yazid ibn Ziyad; Qutayba ibn Muslim; Al-Hakam ibn Amr al-Ghifari; Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra; Muslim ibn Sa'id al-Kilabi ; Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri; Sawra ibn al-Hurr al-Abani; Sa'id ibn Amr al-Harashi; Asad ibn Abd Allah al-Qasri; Nasr ibn Sayyar; Al-Yashkuri; Al-Saffah; Abu Muslim; Ziyad ibn Salih	Ghurak; Suluk Khagan; Kül-chor; al-Harith ibn Surayj; Qapaghan Qaghan; Bilge Qaghan; Kul Tigin; Divashtich †; Karzanj †; Gao Xianzhi

The Muslim conquest of Transoxiana or Arab conquest of Transoxiana were the 7th and 8th century conquests, by Umayyad and Abbasid Arabs, of Transoxiana, the land between the Oxus (Amu Darya) and Jaxartes (Syr Darya) rivers, a part of Central Asia that today includes all or parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

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