Yusuf ibn Abd ar-Rahman al-Fihri

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Yusuf ibn Abd ar-Rahman al-Fihri ( Arabic يوسف بن عبد الرحمن الفهري, DMG Yūsuf b. ʿAbd ar-Raḥman al-Fihrī ) was Umayyad governor of Narbonne in Septimania and then from 747 to 756 as the successor to Abd ar-Rahman ibn Kabir al-Lahmi Muslim governor of Al-Andalus .

Since the year 716 Al-Andalus has been administered by governors sent from Damascus , the capital of the Umayyad Empire, or appointed on the recommendation of the Emir of Ifrīqiya , to whom they were subordinate. After the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate in 750, Yusuf al-Fihri ruled independently in Al-Andalus.

After becoming governor, Yusuf al-Fihri had a census carried out. From this, Bishop Hostegesis created a list of tax and tribute ( jizya ) subjects. The bishop then made annual visits to ensure that taxes were being collected properly.

Yusuf al-Fihri led a campaign against the Basques in Pamplona in 755 , but it failed. His opponent, Abd ar-Rahman I , had escaped after the fall of the Umayyads (750) and the Abbasid massacre of the Umayyads, and fled via Palestine and Egypt to the Maghreb . With the support of the Berbers, he landed in August 755 between Málaga and Almería in Andalusia and tried to gain further allies there. Regardless of the traditions and customs of the tribes, Yusuf al-Fihri robbed two of Abd ar-Rahman's slaves, thereby fueling the conflict in Al-Andalus.

In May 756, Yusuf al-Fihri was defeated in the Battle of Musarah by Abd ar-Rahman I on the banks of the Guadalquivir River near Cordoba . Abd ar-Rahman I rose to the rank of Emir of Cordoba in the same year , separating Andalusia from the Abbasid Caliphate .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jamil M. Abun-Nasr: A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987, ISBN 0-521-33767-4 , p. 71.
  2. ↑ Kenneth Baxter Wolf: Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain . Translated Texts for Historians . Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2000, ISBN 0-85323-554-6 , p. 156.
  3. ↑ SM Imamuddin: Muslim Spain - 711-1492 AD: A Sociological Study . Brill Academic Publishers, 1981, ISBN 90-04-06131-2 , p. 58.
  4. ^ R. Larry Trask: The History of Basque . Routledge, London 1996, ISBN 0-415-13116-2 , p. 12.
  5. ^ Peter C. Scales: The Fall of the Caliphate of Cordoba: Berbers and Andalusis in Conflict . Brill Academic Publishers, 1994, ISBN 90-04-09868-2 , p. 66.
  6. ↑ Mishal Fahm Al-Sulami: The West and Islam: Western Liberal Democracy Versus the System of Shura . Routledge, London 2004, ISBN 0-415-31634-0 , p. 207.
predecessor Office successor
Abd al-Rahman ibn Kabir al-Lahmi Governor of Al-Andalus
747–756 		Abd ar-Rahman I (1st emir of Cordoba )
personal data
SURNAME Yusuf ibn Abd ar-Rahman al-Fihri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yūsuf b. ʿAbd ar-Raḥman al-Fihrī
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Umayyad governor of Narbonne in Septimania and Muslim governor of Al-Andalus
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
DATE OF DEATH after 756