The Conqueror Who Was Twenty
Muhammad bin Qasim and the Empire That Used Him UpBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 35m
About this audiobook
He was sixteen when an empire handed him six thousand men and told him to take a kingdom.
You know what it is to be shaped for a purpose—to be good at what you were made for, yet unable to tell which part of the wanting was ever yours.
Muhammad bin Qasim was built by an uncle into the commander who crossed an uncrossable river and defeated a king before twenty. Then he did what no one built him for: he governed with a fairness so rare that defeated leaders joined his administration. Two years later, the empire decided he was inconvenient.
This narrative biography explores conquest, mercy, and the grief of being used by what made you.
• Recognize what you chose versus what was chosen for you
• See what it costs to keep your word when no one enforces it
• Understand why complete loyalty never protected anyone
This is for anyone built for a purpose they did not pick, who got good at it anyway.
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Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Spirituality and Religion
Length8 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1311. Aror
2Prologue
1412. Brahmanabad
31. The Boy From Ta'if
1513. What He Chose to Preserve
42. The Governor's Nephew
1614. Multan
53. First Blood
1715. The Boy Who Governs
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64. The Stolen Gifts
1816. Cracks in Damascus
75. Six Thousand Men
1917. The Accusation
86. Debal
2018. The Order
97. Cities That Did Not Fight
2119. The Road in the Hide
108. The River
2220. What Sindh Became
119. The King on the Other Bank
23Epilogue
1210. The Roads to Rewar
2421. Author's Note
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