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Biography

Name: Abu Jafar ibn Muhammad al- Mansur
Birth Date: 712
Death Date: October, 775
Nationality: Arabian
Gender: Male
Occupations: ruler

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Biography of Abu Jafar ibn Muhammad al- Mansur
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Abu Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Mansur (712-775) was the second caliph and real founder of the Arab Abbasid dynasty. Abu Jafar, later al-Mansur, was the son of a Berber slave girl called Sallama and a brother of the first Abbasid caliph, Abu al-Abbas al...


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Abu Ja'far Al-Mansur Summary
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709-775 Arab ruler, second caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, who fostered learning in astronomy and other disciplines. It was al-Mansur who began construction of the Abbasid capital at Baghdad, which replaced the old Umayyad center in Damascus as the new...
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Al-Mansur Information
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Abu Ja'far Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mansur (712–775; Arabic: ابو جعفر عبدالله ابن محمد المنصور) was the second Abbasid Caliph. He was born at al-Humaymah, the home of the 'Abbasid family after their emigration from the...


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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
From Slave to Sultan: The Career of al-Mansur Qalawun and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in Egypt and Syria (678-689 A.H./1279-1290).(Review)
10/01/2000: 741 words, approx. 3 pages
From Slave to Sultan: The Career of al-Mansur Qalawun and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in Egypt and Syria (678-689 A.H./1279-1290). By LINDA S. NORTHRUP. Freiburger Islamstudien, vol. 18. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1998. Pp. 349. DM 128. In the introduction Northrup...


 

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