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Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari

Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari

Abbasid official and al-Mahdi's Maternal cousin

Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari al-Ru'ayni (Arabic: منصور بن يزيد بن منصور الحميري الرعيني) was an eighth century official for the Abbasid Caliphate.

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He was the son of Yazid ibn Mansur, a maternal uncle of the third Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi.[1] In 779 he spent two months as governor of Egypt.[2] Between 781/2 and 783 he was governor of the Yemen,[3] and in 796 he briefly served as the governor of Khurasan.[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 29: p. 152 n. 556.
  2. [2]
    Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 121–22; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 41–42.
  3. [3]
    Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 29: pp. 218, 219, 235; Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1141; Ibn Abd al-Majid 1985, p. 25.
  4. [4]
    Bosworth 2011, p. 38; Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 30: pp. 152, 305; Hamzah al-Isfahani 1844, p. 174 (calling him Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Khalid); Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1177; Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 462.

References

  • Bosworth, C. E. (2011). The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650-1041: The Persian Text of Abu Sa'id 'Abd Al-Hayy Gardizi. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–169. ISBN 978-1-84885-353-9.
  • Gordon, Matthew S.; Robinson, Chase F.; Rowson, Everett K.; et al., eds. (2018). The Works of Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi: An English Translation. Vol. 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-35621-4.
  • Hamzah al-Isfahani, Ibn al-Hasan (1844). Gottwaldt, I.M.E. (ed.). Hamzae Ispahanensis Annalium, Libri X. Leipzig: Leopold Voss.
  • Ibn Abd al-Majid, Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Baqi al-Yamani (1985). Ta'rikh al-Yaman al-Musamma Bahjat al-Zaman fi Ta'rikh al-Yaman. Sana'a: Dar Kalimah.
  • Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
  • Khalifah ibn Khayyat (1985). al-Umari, Akram Diya' (ed.). Tarikh Khalifah ibn Khayyat, 3rd ed (in Arabic). Al-Riyadh: Dar Taybah.
  • Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.
  • Yarshater, Ehsan, ed. (1985–2007). The History of al-Ṭabarī (40 vols). SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7249-1.
Preceded by
Wadih al-Maskin
 Governor of Egypt
779		 Succeeded by
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