Uqba ibn al-Hajjaj
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Uqba ibn al-Hajjaj
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Uqba ibn al-Hajjaj al-Saluli was an Umayyad governor of al-Andalus from 734 to 740, appointed by Ubayd Allah ibn al-Habhab. The new wali of Al-Andalus denounced the self-enriching excesses in taxation imposed by Abd al-Malik ibn Katan al-Fihri, imprisoned him and his officials. Uqba ibn al-Hajjaj in turn made a new census, followed by a more rigorous tax collection. He likewise decreed that each person be judged according to the law of their own people, meaning that the Islamic law of the conque
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