Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri

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

Since the year 716 Al -Andalus was ruled by governors who were sent from Damascus, the capital of Umayyadenreichs, or were appointed on the recommendation of the Emir of Ifriqiya, where they were submerged. After the fall of the Umayyad caliphate in 750 Yusuf al - Fihri reigned independently in Al -Andalus.

After he became governor Yusuf al- Fihri was to carry out a census. This bishop Hostegesis compiled a list of the control and tributaries ( jizya ) subjects. The bishop, it took some annual visits to sichzustellen that taxes were raised properly.

Yusuf al - Fihri in 755 led an expedition against the Basques in Pamplona, ​​which, however, failed. His opponent, Abd ar - Rahman I escaped after the fall of the Umayyad (750) and the massacre of the Abbasids to the Umayyads, and fled Palestine and Egypt in the Maghreb. With the support of the Berber he landed in August 755 between Malaga and Almeria in Andalusia, trying to gain more allies there. Regardless of the traditions and customs of the tribes to take, Yusuf al - Fihri robbed two slaves from Abd ar - Rahman, and stoking the conflict in Al -Andalus, additionally.

In May 756 Yusuf al - Fihri was in the battle of Musarah of Abd ar - Rahman I on the banks of the River Guadalquivir near Córdoba defeated. Abd ar- Rahman I got up in the same year to the Emir of Córdoba and Andalusia as separated from the Abbasid Caliphate.

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