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Muqaddam (Arabic: مقدم) is an Arabic title, adopted in other Islamic or Islamicate cultures, for various civil or religious officials.

As per the Persian records of medieval India, muqaddams, along with khots and chowdhurys, acted as hereditary rural intermediaries between the state and the peasantry. Originating during the Delhi Sultanate, the earliest known reference to the muqaddami system dates from the first decades of the 13th century, when Hasan Nizami wrote of a delegation of muqaddams offering gifts to Sultan Qutb ud-Din Aibak. Muqaddams were tasked with revenue collection in the areas under their jurisdiction, for which they received either 2.5% as remuneration or rent-free land equalling that amount. The socio-economic status of muqaddams varied over time; during the revenue reforms of Alauddin Khalji, many were impoverished due to the abolition of their traditional privileges. However, in other periods the muqaddams "were prosperous enough to ride on costly Arabi and Iraqi horses, wear fine clothes, and behave like members of the upper classes". Over time, muqaddams and chowdhurys took on the characteristics of landed gentry in their respective localities, with some even attaining the status of Zamindars during the Mughal period. Muqaddams could be dispossessed of their status by the state.

In the Tijaniyyah, Shadhiliyyah, Rahmaniyyah, and other Sufi orders, a muqaddam is a student of the Sufi path (a murid or dervish) who has been authorized by his/her Guide (aka shaikh, pir, or murshid) to assist in teaching the path to other students.

In Lebanon, the muqaddams were the political leaders of their religious community. The last muqaddams disappeared in the beginning of the 17th Century.

Military use

In the militaries of several Arab nations, muqaddam is equivalent to the Anglophone ranks of lieutenant colonel, commander and wing commander, depending on the service branch.

Army Navy Air Force
Algerian People's National Armed Forces
French Lieutenant colonel
Bahrain Defence Force
Egyptian Armed Forces
Iraqi Armed Forces
Jordanian Armed Forces
Kuwait Military Forces
Lebanese Armed Forces
Libyan Armed Forces
Armed Forces of Mauritania
Variant مقدم بحري
Muqaddam bahriun
Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces
Palestinian National Security Forces — —
Qatar Armed Forces
Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia
Sudanese Armed Forces
Syrian Armed Forces
Tunisian Armed Forces
Variant مقدم بالبحرية
Muqaddam bialbahria
French Lieutenant colonel Capitaine de frégate Lieutenant colonel
United Arab Emirates Armed Forces
Republic of Yemen Armed Forces

References

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  2. Reza Huseini, Said (2021), The Muqaddam Represented in the pre-Mongol Persian Documents from Ghur, Edinburgh University Press, p. 92
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  6. Habib, Irfan: The Agrarian System of Mughal India, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-565595-8, pp. 160–161.
  7. Salibi, Kamal (1968), "The muqaddams of Bšarrī: Maronite chieftains of the Northern Lebanon 1382-1621", Arabica, 15 (1), Brill: 86, doi:10.1163/157005868X00280, JSTOR 4056124
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