​Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf Al-Thaqafi: A Formidable Umayyad Viceroy in Iraq

Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf Al-Thaqafi: A Formidable Umayyad Viceroy in Iraq

Author: Zakariyau I. Oseni

Publisher: A. S Noordeen

ISBN: 9789830653235

Price: RM25

Weight: 0.3kg

Abū Muhammad al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAqīl al-Thaqafī (Ta'if 661 – Wasit, 714), known simply as al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf was perhaps the most notable governor who served the Umayyad Caliphate. An extremely capable though ruthless statesman, a strict in character, but also a harsh and demanding master, he was widely feared by his contemporaries and became a deeply controversial figure and an object of deep-seated enmity among later, pro-Abbasid writers, who ascribed to him persecutions and mass executions.