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Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Ashja'i (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الله الأشجعي, romanizedMuḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ashdjaʿī) was the eleventh governor of al-Andalus under the Umayyad Caliphate in AD 730 (AH 111–112). He was one of a series of Arabs from Ifriqiya who served as governors in al-Andalus from 721 to 731.

After ten months in office, Muhammad's predecessor, al-Haytham, was confronted by an attempted coup d'état in early 730. He arrested the conspirators, but their relatives in turn complained about his heavy-handedness to his superior, the governor of Ifriqiya. According to the Chronicle of 754, the earliest source, al-Haytham was arrested and brought to Ifriqiya, but because his intended replacement, al-Qhafiqi, could not be found, Muhammad was appointed to replace him instead. His formal appointment took place, according to the Chronicle, one month after al-Haytham had been removed.

According to the Prophetic Chronicle, written in 883, he only governed for one month. Al-Maqqari, a very late source, puts his term of office in March–May 731, a year later than the earlier chronicles indicate, but right before the generally accepted date for when al-Ghafiqi finally took up office.

Notes

  1. Latham 1960, p. 493.
  2. Collins 1989, p. 85.
  3. In Wolf 1999, p. 115.
  4. Christys 2003, p. 241.
  5. Collins 1995, p. 300.

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Preceded byal-Haytham ibn Ubayd al-Kilabi Umayyad governor of al-Andalus
730
Succeeded byAbd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi
Umayyad governors of al-Andalus
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