death_date allegiance battles birth_date article_title name
9 december 748 umayyad caliphate umayyad-turgesh tribal wars in khurasan , abbasid revolt wars , muslim conquest of transoxiana , arab 663 nasr ibn sayyar
 nasr ibn sayyar
nasr ibn sayyar

naṣr ibn sayyār al-lāythi al-kināni -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 663 -- 748 -rrb- was an arab general and the last umayyad governor of khurasan in 738 -- 748 .
nasr played a distinguished role in the wars against the turgesh , although he failed to decisively confront the rebellion of al-harith ibn surayj in its early stages .
although respected as a soldier and a statesman , he owed his appointment as governor more to his obscure tribal background , which rendered him dependent on the caliph .
his tenure was nevertheless successful , as nasr introduced long-overdue tax reforms that alleviated social tension and largely restored stabilized umayyad control in transoxiana , which had been greatly reduced under the turgesh onslaught .
his last years were occupied by inter-tribal rivalries and uprisings , however , as the caliphate itself descended into a period of civil war .
in 746 nasr was driven from his capital by ibn surayj and juday ' al-kirmani , but returned after the latter fell out among themselves , resulting in ibn surayj 's death .
preoccupied with this conflict , nasr was unable to stop the outbreak and spread of the abbasid revolution , whose leader , abu muslim , exploited the situation to his advantage .
evicted from his province in early 748 , he fled to iran pursued by the abbasid forces , where he died in december 748 .
