Al-Walid ibn Rifa'ah al-Fahmi (Arabic: الوليد بن رفاعة الفهمي) (died June 735) was a governor of Egypt for the Umayyad Caliphate from 727 to 735.
A member of the Qaysite clan of the Banu Fahm, al-Walid initially appears as a chief of security (sahib al-shurtah) for his brother Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'ah al-Fahmi during the latter's governorship of Egypt from 715 to 717.
[2] During al-Walid's governorship, Egypt saw the first large-scale settlement of Qaysite Arabs in the province as part of a project overseen by the financial administrator Ubaydallah ibn al-Habhab and the central government.
[4] A separate reform, the introduction of a new grain measure, was also ordered upon Egypt by the caliph, but local resistance to the proposal soon resulted in the abandonment of its implementation.
[5] In 735 al-Walid allowed the Copts to build (or re-build) the Church of Saint Menas in the Hamra; this decision was however extremely unpopular with the Muslim population and resulted in an unsuccessful attempt being made on his life.