Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi
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
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Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi
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
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c. 727
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Fustat, Egypt, Umayyad Caliphate
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Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi
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عبد الملك بن رفاعة
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Sahib al-shurta of Egypt
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عبد الملك بن رفاعة
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