Abdallah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi

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Abdallah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi
عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن معاوية بن حديج التجيبي
Sahib al-Shurtah (Chief of security) in Egypt
In office
749–750
MonarchMarwan II
In office
760–769
MonarchAl-Mansur
Abbasid governor of Egypt
In office
769–772
MonarchAl-Mansur
Preceded byYazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi
Succeeded byMuhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi
Personal details
Parent(s)
  • Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah (father)
ResidenceFustat

Abdallah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن معاوية بن حديج التجيبي) (died January 772) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 769 to 772.

Career[]

Abdallah was the scion of a leading family of the Egyptian wujuh, the Arab settler community that dominated affairs in the province in the first centuries of the Islamic era. His grandfather Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi was an early Egyptian settler following the Muslim conquest and a leading partisan there of the Uthmanids and Umayyads, while his father served as both a judge (qadi) and chief of security (sahib al-shurtah) in the province.[1]

Abdallah was initially made head of the shurtah following the death of the penultimate Umayyad governor al-Mughirah ibn Ubaydallah al-Fazari in 749, with the Egyptian jund appointing him on an interim basis to provide continuity of leadership until the central government could send a replacement.[2] Subsequent to the overthrow of the Umayyads in 750, he pivoted to the new Abbasid rulers and was briefly returned to office by Salih ibn Ali.[3] A more lengthy tenure over the shurtah followed in 760–769, with both Humayd ibn Qahtabah and Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi employing him in that position during their respective governorships.[4] Under Yazid he played an instrumental role in defeating a local outbreak of the Alid revolt of 762–763, and he was made acting head of the province when Yazid went on hajj in 765.[5]

Following Yazid's dismissal in 769, Abdallah was appointed by the caliph al-Mansur to replace him as governor, albeit without authority over matters of taxation (kharaj). He remained in that office until his death in 772, upon which he was succeeded by his brother Muhammad.[6]

Abdallah's descendants remained influential in Egypt in the years following his death, with his son Hashim and grandson Hubayrah both serving as sahib al-shurtah at various points; his family seems however to have eventually lost their power as a result the disorders of the Fourth Fitna in the early ninth century.[7]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Kennedy 1981, pp. 31 ff., 35, 36; Kennedy 1998, pp. 66, 76.
  2. ^ Al-Kindi 1912, p. 93; Ibn Taghribirdi 1929, p. 315; Kennedy 1981, p. 36.
  3. ^ Al-Kindi 1912, p. 98; Kennedy 1981, p. 36.
  4. ^ Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 110, 111; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 1 (noting only the appointment under Yazid); Kennedy 1981, p. 36.
  5. ^ Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 112–14; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 3; Kennedy 1998, p. 77.
  6. ^ Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 117–18; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 17–18, 23. Abdallah's governorship is not noted by al-Tabari, who provides an alternative list of provincial rulers during his period; a possible explanation for this discrepancy is offered by Kennedy 1981, pp. 33-34 n. 6.
  7. ^ Kennedy 1981, p. 36.

References[]

  • 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.
  • Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
  • Kennedy, Hugh (1981). "Central Government and Provincial Élites in the Early 'Abbāsid caliphate". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 44 (1): 26–38. JSTOR 616294.
  • 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
769–772 		Succeeded by
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