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Abd Allah ibn Amir
Rashidun Arab governor of Basra from 647 to 656 · Lived 622 to 678 · aged 56
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Kurayz was a prominent Arab general and statesman who served as the governor of Basra under both the Rashidun Caliphate and the Umayyad Caliphate.
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A maternal cousin of the third Rashidun caliph Uthman ibn Affan, he was appointed to the governorship at age twenty-one, where he initiated major infrastructure projects and transformed Basra into a vital commercial and administrative center. He is best known for overseeing the final pacification of the Sasanian Empire, leading successful campaigns to reconquer territories in Fars, Kerman, and Khorasan, and extending Muslim control into present-day Afghanistan and Sistan.