Eight members of the Islamic Center represented the Islamic Society of Stillwater at CAIR's annual Iftar. The evening was as pleasant as always, and we enjoyed meeting prominent leaders from Oklahoma's Muslim community.
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Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why.
Qutayba was an Arab commander of the Umayyad Caliphate who became governor of Khurasan and distinguished himself in the conquest of Transoxiana during the reign of al-Walid I (705–715). A capable soldier and administrator, he consolidated Muslim rule in the area and expanded the Caliphate's border to include most of Transoxiana. From 705 to c. 710, he consolidated Muslim control over the native principalities of Tokharistan and conquered the principality of Bukhara, while in 710–712 he conquered Khwarizm and completed the conquest of Sogdiana with the capture of Samarkand. The latter opened the road to the Jaxartes valley, and during the last years of his life Qutayba led annual campaigns there, extending Muslim control up to the Fergana Valley and parts of Chinese Turkestan.
It is nothing but religion: whoever preserves it will lead, and whoever neglects it will fall.
This story has been preserved for over twelve centuries not because it's typical, but because it's extraordinary. It represents an ideal—a peak of human nobility that most of us will never reach but should never stop aspiring to.
