Editing Muslim conquests of Afghanistan (section)

===Tahirids===

Khurasan was the base for early recruitment of Abbasid armies, especially the Abbasid takeover received support from Arab settlers aiming to undermine the important sections of non-Muslim aristocracy. The Abbasids succeeded in integrating Khorasan and the East into the central Islamic lands. The state was gradually [[Persianized]] through political influence and financial support of the ''[[dihqan]]s''. Al-Ma'mun emerged as the victor in the Fourth Fitna with the help of Khorasani forces and appointed [[Tahir ibn Husayn]] as the governor. Later, he appointed [[Talha ibn Tahir|Talha]] as the governor in 822 and Abdallah in 828.{{sfn|Bosworth|1969|p=103}}{{sfn|Kennedy|2016|p=139}}{{sfn|Esposito|2000|p=38}} But after the [[Anarchy at Samarra|Abbasid decline]], Khorasan ended up turning into a virtually independent state under a Persian ''mawla'' who rose to favour under Al-Ma'mun.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2m7_R5P2oAC&pg=PA112|title=Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th-11th Centuries|publisher=Brill|page=112|isbn=0391041738|year=2002}}</ref>

According to [[Ibn Khordadbeh]], the Shah of Kabul had to send 2,000 [[Oghuz Turks|Oghuz]] slaves worth 600,000 dirhams as annual tribute to the governor of Khorasan [[Abdallah ibn Tahir]] (r. 828–845).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8c3QAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA174|title=Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=174|isbn=9780199330799|year=2014}}</ref> In addition to the Oghuz slaves, he also had to pay an annual tribute of 1.5 million dirhams.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgawCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA257|title=Historic Cities of the Islamic World|publisher=Brill|page=257|isbn=9789047423836|date=2007-12-26}}</ref> Mid-9th century, one of their tributaries Abu Da'udid or the [[Banijurids|Banijurid]] Amir Da'ud b. Abu Da'ud Abbas, undertook an obscure campaign into eastern Afghanistan and Zabulistan that was profitable. It is recorded that in 864 [[Muhammad ibn Tahir]] sent two elephants captured at Kabul, idols and aromatic substances to the caliph.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC&pg=PA99|title=The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4|author=William Bayne Fisher|page=99|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=9780521200936|date=1975-06-26}}</ref>