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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ghāfiqī
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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ghāfiqī (d. 114/732) served twice as governor (
wālī) of al-Andalus. The first time, in 102/721, he was elected by the
jund (army) and held office for about two months as interim governor after the death of al-Samḥ b. Mālik al-Khawlānī on 8 Dhū l-Ḥijja 102/9 June 721, while on an expedition in the south of France. The second time, in Ṣafar 112/March-April 730, he was appointed—perhaps directly by the Umayyad caliph Hishām (r. 105–25/724–43) rather than through the mediation of the governor…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
