خطة فتح جرجان في العصرين الراشدي و الأموي : دراسة تاريخية تحليلية

Abstract EN

This paper deals with the plan of Fath Gurjan، which is the area located on the Khazar Sea (Caspian) between Khurasan and Tabaristan and is of great importance in all security, military, political and economic aspects and it controls the most important roads linking Iraq and Khorasan, so opening this area was one of the inevitable requirements of the Islamic armies that succeeded in the beginning By concluding a reconciliation twice in a row, then the people of Jarjan revoked this peace due to the Islamic army’s preoccupation with internal conflicts, and they took control of the northern land route important for trade between the East and the West, and when this road became unsafe for commercial caravans, the idea was to open Gorgan with Qutaiba bin Muslim Amir Khorasan, but the governor of the Iraqis, Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf Al-Thaqafi.

He dismissed him from that, and he was aware of this region and its danger, Yazid bin Al-Muhallab bin Abi Safra, who proposed this idea to open it to Caliph Sulayman bin Abdul-Malik when he was crown prince, and criticized Qutayba bin Muslim’s strategy in Fattuh countries beyond the river and left Gorgan.

When Caliph Sulayman bin Abdul Malik took over The reins of power and appointed Yazid bin alMuhallab as governor of Khurasan and granting him independence from Iraq.

Yazid hastened to work to open this region through a plan of action for a long period of time that began in the winter season of 97 AH / 716 CE by preparing armies for a period of three months, then opening their areas by cutting off All supplies reached the castles and forts of Gorgan, then the siege was imposed on the most important forts, Fort Wajah, and entered through the narrow passages through the Alborz mountain range, and this process took about a year three months