Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Muslim conquest of Transoxiana" in English language version.
sogdian qutayba.
sogdian qutayba.
aksu 717.
Subsequent Umayyad weakness together with the expansive foreign policy of Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712–756) allowed for a return of Tang power in central Asia, but that ended abruptly in 751 when a Tang army under the Korean general Gao Xianzhi 高仙芝 was defeated at the Battle of Talas (near modern Tashkent) by an Arab army of the newly established Abbasid caliphate (750–1258).