Editing Al-Walid I (section)

====Eastern frontiers====
{{main|Muslim conquest of Transoxiana|Umayyad conquest of Sindh}}

Expansion from the eastern frontiers was overseen by al-Hajjaj from Iraq. His lieutenant governor of [[Greater Khorasan|Khurasan]], [[Qutayba ibn Muslim]], launched several campaigns in [[Transoxiana]] (Central Asia), which had been a largely impenetrable region for earlier Muslim armies, between 705 and 715. Qutayba gained the surrender of [[Bukhara]] in 706–709, [[Khwarazm]] and [[Samarkand]] in 711–712, and [[Farghana]] in 713.{{sfn|Kennedy|2002|p=127}} He mainly secured Umayyad suzerainty through tributary alliances with local rulers, whose power remained intact.{{sfn|Kennedy|2004|p=104}} With Qutayba's death in 716, his army disbanded and the weak Arab position in Transoxiana allowed for the local princes and the [[Turgesh]] nomads to roll back most of Qutayba's gains by the early 720s.{{sfn|Gibb|1923|pp=54–56, 59}} From 708 or 709, al-Hajjaj's nephew, [[Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi|Muhammad ibn al-Qasim]], conquered [[Sind (caliphal province)|Sind]], the northwestern part of South Asia.{{sfn|Dietrich|1971|p=41}}{{sfn|Kennedy|2004|p=104}}