Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid al-Fahmi

Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid ibn Musafir al-Fahmi (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بن خالد بن مسافر الفهمي‎) was a governor of Egypt for the Umayyad Caliphate from 735 to 737.

A Qays Arab, Abd al-Rahman originally served as chief of police (sahib al-shurta) for al-Walid ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi[1] before himself succeeding to the governorship upon al-Walid's death in mid-735. He remained in office until a Byzantine sea attack in the following year caused several Muslims to be taken prisoner; as a result, the caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik lost faith in his skill with military matters and replaced him with Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi instead.[2]

Notes

1. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 76; Ibn Taghribirdi 1929, p. 265.
2. Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 79-80; Ibn Taghribirdi 1929, p. 277; Blankinship 1994, p. 192.

References

• Blankinship, Khalid Yahya (1994). The End of the Jihâd State: The Reign of Hishām ibn ʻAbd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-1827-7.
• 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.
• Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.