# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-hajjaj-ibn-yusuf
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:16:41.313Z

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name: "Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf"
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description: "The Umayyad governor who rebuilt Iraq's administration with Arabic coinage and tax registers, crushed a mass rebellion in 701, and ruled through fear — later writers made him a byword for ruthless state power."
tagline: "Umayyad governor and viceroy (c.661-714)"
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deathDate: "0714-06-01"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf began as head of the caliph's select troops under Abd al-Malik, rose to governor of the Hejaz by 692, then became practical viceroy of Iraq and the eastern Caliphate in 694. He replaced Persian with Arabic in the tax registers, minted the first strictly Muslim silver dirhams, and tried to revive agriculture by forcing non-Arab converts back to their villages and taxing them like non-Muslims. When the Kufan nobleman Ibn al-Ash'ath led a mass rebellion in 701 — Arab troops, converts, and religious elites all rising together — al-Hajjaj brought in Syrian reinforcements and crushed it. Afterward he founded Wasit to house those loyalist Syrians and ruled through them until his death in 714. Widely feared while alive, he became a target of deep hatred among the Abbasid-era writers who followed.