Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi explained

Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi
عبد الملك بن رفاعة
Office1:Governor of Egypt
Term Start1:715
Term End1:717
Monarch1:Sulayman
Predecessor1:Qurra ibn Sharik al-Absi
Successor1:Ayyub ibn Sharhabil
Term Start2:727
Term End2:727
(few weeks)
Monarch2:Hisham
Predecessor2:Hafs ibn al-Walid ibn Yusuf al-Hadrami
Successor2:Al-Walid ibn Rifa'ah al-Fahmi
Office3:Sahib al-shurta of Egypt
Term Start3:709
Term End3:715
(under governor Qurra ibn Sharik al-Absi)
Monarch3:Al-Walid I
Death Date:727
Father:Rifa'a

Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi 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.

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.[1]

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