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After the Arab conquest of Iran, the province became known as Sijistan/Sistan. [6] The previous Old Persian name of the region, prior to Saka dominance, was zaranka ("waterland"). The older form is also the root of the name Zaranj, capital of the Afghan Nimruz Province. Coinage of the Sakaurakae ruler Tanlesmos (Sakastan, circa 80-40 BC).
Al-Sijistani (Persian: سجستانی and السجستانی) refers to people from the historic Sijistan region in present-day Sistan, the border region of eastern Iran and southwestern Afghanistan. Prominent people who have been called Al-Sijistani include:
Sakastan (also known as Sagestān, Sagistan, Seyanish, Segistan, Sistan, and Sijistan) was a Sasanian province in Late Antiquity, that lay within the kust of Nemroz. The province bordered Kirman in the west, Spahan in the north west, Kushanshahr in the north east, and Turan in the south east. The governor of the province held the title of marzban.
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Abu Sulayman Muhammad al-Sijistani, (Arabic: أبو محمد سليمان السجستاني) nicknamed al-Mantiqi ('the Logician'; Arabic: المنطقي), c. 912 – c. 985 CE, [1] named for his origins in the Sijistan or Sistan region in present-day Eastern Iran and Southern Afghanistan, was a leading Islamic humanist philosopher in Baghdad.
Sistan and Baluchestan province (Persian: استان سيستان و بلوچستان) [a] is the second largest of the 31 Provinces of Iran, after Kerman Province, with an area of 180,726 km 2.
Bosworth, C. E. (1968). Sīstān under the Arabs: From the Islamic Conquest to the Rise of the Ṣaffārids (30–250, 651–864).Rome: Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente.
ʿAbbād ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi (Arabic: عبّاد بن زياد بن أبيه) (died 718/19) was an Arab commander and statesman of the Umayyad Caliphate.A son of the governor of Iraq, Ziyad ibn Abihi, Abbad served as a governor of Sijistan between 673 and 681 under caliphs Mu'awiya I (r.