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_ is highly probable that the foundation of al-Mansurah signified a great The renowned Muslim geographer al-Mas'iidi relates that the city of al-Mansiirah owes its name to Mansur ibn Jamhiir al-Kalbi,1 the last Umayyad governor of Sind, who defended the province against the domination of the Abbasids, It is related that immediately after the establishment of the Abbasid rule in Iraq Abu Muslim Khurasani sent Mughlis al-'Abadi with investitures as the governor of Sind.
He says that Muhammad ibn al-Qasim entered Sind from Sijistan side and, after having conquered the whole country, gave the name al-Mansurah to Brahmanabad and al-Mamiiriyah to Multan;" Abu al-Fadl, the court historian of Akbar, on the contrary, says that Bukhar, a small town in the middle of the river Indus in upper Sind, was al-Mansiirah on the assumption that after the conquest ot Sind by the Arabs they changed the name of its capital Aror to al-Mansurah, signifying their victory over the rulers of Sind.
25 The earliest accounts clearly indicate that al-Mansurah was founded near Brahmanabad, at a distance of two barsakhs ( about six miles) exactly opposite to al-Mahfuzah, which was the first settlement of the Arabs in Sind, after its reconquest by Hakam ibn 'Awanah al-Kalbl, It is also clear from the accounts that its founder was 'Amr, son of Muhammad ibn al-Qjisim al-Thaqafi, who came to Sind with Hakarn ibn 'Awanah al-Kalbi and later succeeded him to the governorship of Sind.