Who or what halted Umayyad expansion into the Caucasus?

>>2244707
Anime

The holy mother of Christ, Islam is literally satanic.

theres literally nothing of interest for them in the north

they did send a diplomat which managed to convert the volga bulgar to islam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan

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Well gee, it might just be the giant fucking mountains in that region.

>>2244744
the arabs crossed the caucasus many times during their war with the khazar

>>2244707
Why would they want to go where there is fucking nothing(TM)?

there was very little but steppe nomads north of the Caucasus in the late 7th century, not much in the way of cities or development. For example Astrakhan was a major trade hub in that region, but it's first mentioned in historical records 600 years later.

The more interesting question is why they failed to conquer more of southern france.

>>2244707
The Umayyads themselves, who spent most of their time actually consolidating all of that territory into a proper empire. Once accomplished, their Roman/Persian model army couldn't project power too far beyond North Africa and Khorasan and were mostly tied up putting down rebels or facing off against Byzantines and Turks to be able to overwhelm the area completely leaving it in the hands of diplomats and governors competing with Byzantine and Khazar interests.

>>2244842
>proper empire
>collapses to dynastic civil war in a generation
>a dynasty that proceeds to lose all central authority with intrigue and infighting a century on

Some empire!

Infighting in the Abode of
>Peace.

>>2244846
That's exactly what you'd expect from a Roman dynasty though. It's no coincidence that the Umayyads were adopting all kinds of imperial pretensions in the form of elevating the Caliph to be the equivalent of the Roman Emperor for Islam as well as issuing currency that put him on the same level as the Byzantines.

Point is, most of the conquests weren't undertaken by the kind of state the Umayyads would eventually consolidate.

>>2244846
the abbasids were better anyway

>>2244846
>>collapses to dynastic civil war in a generation
>>a dynasty that proceeds to lose all central authority with intrigue and infighting a century on

Can't get much more Roman than that. The Abbasids lasted much longer, but they also were much more Persianized.