catibah

Updated: May 9, 2025

While one of his colleagues displayed the first Mahometan banner on the banks of the Indus, the spacious regions between the Oxus, the Jaxartes, and the Caspian Sea, were reduced by the arms of Catibah to the obedience of the prophet and of the caliph.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

But the final conquest of Transoxiana, as well as of Spain, was reserved for the glorious reign of the inactive Walid; and the name of Catibah, the camel driver, declares the origin and merit of his successful lieutenant.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5