Zadhan Furrukh
زاذان فروخ
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- Era
- The Umayyad Period
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Overview
Zadhan Farrukh was head of the register of land tax in Iraq in the time of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, and he used to write in Persian 1.
The transfer to Arabic
Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman transferred the register to Arabic by the order of al-Hajjaj. Zadhan was killed afterwards in the strife of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath 2.
Sources
- Lectures on the History of the Islamic Peoples: The Umayyad State — al-Khudari, p.356
- Lectures on the History of the Islamic Peoples: The Umayyad State — al-Khudari, p.361
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