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Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf

Personnalité historique

Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ath-Thaqafī (c. 41-95 AH / 661-714), Umayyad governor of Iraq and the East. An efficient administrator, he had diacritics added to the Quran, but he remained in Muslim memory as the model of the bloodthirsty tyrant, condemned by scholars.