Iraq after the Muslim Conquest - Michael G. Morony

ARABS: NATIVES

from the Islamic state, as did several Persian notables.123 The 'Ibad
of Hira were employed as local tax collectors and were instrumental
in preserving and transmitting irrigation techniques and in developing
the early public baths.^124 AI-Ja'd ibn Qays an-Namari was in charge
of the marketplace at Basra for Ziyad in 669.12^5

123 Baladhurl, Futu~. pp. 457-58; Ya'qiihi, Ta'r"ikh, II, 176.

124 Baladhuri, Futu~, p. 281; Ihn Rustah, A'liiq, p. 207.

125 Baladhuri, Ansiib, IVa, 186.