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Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi

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Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi
عبد الملك بن رفاعة
Governor of Egypt
In office
715–717
MonarchSulayman
Preceded byQurra ibn Sharik al-Absi
Succeeded byAyyub ibn Sharhabil
In office
727 – 727
(few weeks)
MonarchHisham
Preceded byHafs ibn al-Walid ibn Yusuf al-Hadrami
Succeeded byAl-Walid ibn Rifa'ah al-Fahmi
Sahib al-shurta of Egypt
In office
709 – 715
(under governor Qurra ibn Sharik al-Absi)
MonarchAl-Walid I
Personal details
Died727
Parent
  • Rifa'a (father)

Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi (Arabic: عبد الملك بن رفاعة) was the governor of Egypt for the Umayyad Caliphate in 715–717 and 727.

Abd al-Malik was a member of the Arab settler community in Egypt. In 710, he succeeded his uncle at the post of head of security (sahib al-shurta) for the governor Qurra ibn Sharik al-Absi. When Qurra died in office in 715, he was promoted in his stead, the first governor chosen from the local Arabs after several decades where the post had been filled by various grandees of the Umayyad family and their court. His period of office was a continuation of Qurra's, and according to the Coptic sources was marked by increasing fiscal oppression, combined with the efforts of the government to clamp down on avoidance of taxation and corvée labour. This included such measures as restricting their ability to travel through the issue of passports, which greatly impeded trade in the province.[1]

In 727 Abd al-Malik was again made governor of Egypt, but he died of an illness after only a few weeks in office and was succeeded by his brother al-Walid ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi instead.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Kennedy 1998, p. 73.
  2. ^ Al-Kindi 1912, p. 75; Ibn Taghribirdi 1929, pp. 108–09.

Sources

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  • Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1929). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume I (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
  • Kennedy, Hugh (1998). "Egypt as a province in the Islamic caliphate, 641–868". In Petry, Carl F. (ed.). Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 62–85. ISBN 0-521-47137-0.
  • Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.
Preceded by Governor of Egypt
715–717
Succeeded by
Preceded by Governor of Egypt
727
Succeeded by