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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن معاوية بن حديج التجيبي) (died September 772) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate for a portion of 772.

Career

Muhammad was a member of a leading Arab Egyptian family during the early Islamic era, being the son of Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi and grandson to Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi. His brother Abdallah was a chief of security (shurtah) for Egypt and later served as governor of the province from 769 to 772.

In the history of al-Kindi, Muhammad first appears just after the arrival of the Abbasid Revolution to Egypt in 750, when he was one of several local notables who presented themselves to the new Abbasid governor Salih ibn Ali. In 767 he participated in a failed campaign to suppress a Coptic and Arab revolt at Sakha and was seriously wounded in the fighting. In 771 he was temporarily placed in charge of Egypt when Abdallah departed to visit the caliph al-Mansur in Iraq.

Following the death of Abdallah in 772, Muhammad took over and succeeded him in the governorship, and he shortly afterwards received a formal appointment from al-Mansur confirming him in that position. After a few months in office, he died of an illness and was replaced with Musa ibn Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi.

Notes

1. Kennedy 1981, pp. 31 ff., 35, 36; Kennedy 1998, pp. 66, 76.
2. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 101.
3. Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 116–17.
4. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 118; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 17.
5. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 118; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 23.

References

• Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
• Kennedy, Hugh (1981). "Central Government and Provincial Élites in the Early 'Abbāsid caliphate". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 44 (1): 26–38. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00104380. JSTOR 616294. S2CID 151066906.
• Kennedy, Hugh (1998). "Egypt as a province in the Islamic caliphate, 641-868". In Petry, Carl F. (ed.). Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 62–85. ISBN 0-521-47137-0.
• Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.

• 772 deaths
• 8th-century Abbasid governors of Egypt
• 8th-century Arab people