Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi

Who is Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi?

Al-Ḥurr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Thaqafī was an early Umayyad governor who ruled the Muslim province of Al-Andalus from between 716 to 718. He was the third successor to Musa bin Nusair, the North African governor who had directed the conquest of Visigothic Spain several years earlier in 711. Al-Hurr was the first Muslim commander to cross the Pyrenees in 717, leading a small raiding party into Septimania. His incursions were largely unsuccessful, for which he was deposed in 718.