Asad b. ʿAbdallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Daniel, Elton L.
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Abū l-Mundhir Asad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Qasrī (d. 120/737-8) was twice vice-regent of Khurāsān on behalf of his brother Khālid, governor of Iraq and the provinces of Iraq and Khurāsān for the Umayyad caliph Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik (r. 102-25/724-43). Asad was first named acting governor of Khurāsān in 106/724-5 during inter-tribal fighting among the Arabs and a mutiny of the garrison at al-Barūqān (al-Ṭabarī, 2:1473-77) and the ineffective campaign of Muslim b. Saʿīd against