Mansur ibn al-Mahdi
{{Short description|Abbasid prince and governor of Syria}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Mansur ibn al-Mahdi
منصور بن المهدي
| image =
| alt =
| term_start = 809
| term_end = 810
| monarch = Harun al-Rashid,
al-Amin
| predecessor = Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba (807–809)
| successor = Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Harashi (810) then Sulayman ibn Abi Ja'far (810)
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Khurasan or Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
| death_date = 810s
| death_place = Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
| death_cause =
| children =
| father = al-Mahdi
| mother = Bahtariyah
| spouse =
| relatives = Sulayman (uncle)
| blank2 = Full name
| data2 = Mansur ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi
| blank3 = Religion
| data3 = Islam
}}
Mansur ibn al-Mahdi ({{langx|ar|منصور بن المهدي}}) was an Abbasid prince, son of Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi, brother of caliph al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid. Mansur was governor of Syria during his nephew caliph al-Amin's reign.
Life
Mansur was the son of al-Mahdi and his mother was al-Bahtariyah, the noble-born daughter of the Persian rebel,{{sfn|Abbott|1946|p=33}} Masmughan of Damavand,{{cite book | last=Houtsma | first=Martijn Theodoor | title=E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936 | publisher=E.J. Brill | series=E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936 | issue=v. 5 | year=1993 | isbn=978-90-04-09791-9 | page=399}} against whom Mahdi was first sent to Khurasan.{{sfn|Abbott|1946|p=33}} Her mother was Bakand, the daughter of Isbahbadh, Farrukhan the Little.{{cite book | author1 =Al-Tabari| author2 = John Alden Williams | title=Al-̣Tabarī: Volume 1, The Reign of Abū Ja'Far Al-Maṇsūr A. D. 754-775: The Early 'Abbāsī Empire | publisher=Cambridge University Press | series=Al-Tabari. the Early Abbasi Empire | year=1988 | isbn=978-0-521-32662-9 | page=46}} She had a sister named Smyr. She bore al-Mahdi a son named for his grandfather, Mansur, and two daughters, Sulaimah and Aliyah.{{sfn|Abbott|1946|p=33}}
His father, nominated his two elder sons; Musa al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid as heirs. Mansur maintains good relations with all his siblings.
Mansur was appointed as governor of Syria in 809. He remained in office until al-Amin reappointed Sulayman to govern Syria around 809–810 in response to unrest in Damascus emanating from the theft of a prized crystal pitcher from the Umayyad Mosque by the incumbent governor, Sulayman's nephew Mansur. The outrage of the Damascenes prompted them to refuse prayer under Abbasid leadership.{{sfn|Madelung|2000|p=328}}
After his dismissal from the office, Mansur returned to Baghdad in 810.
Siblings
Mansur was contemporary and related to several Abbasid caliphs, princes and princesses. He had total ten half-siblings and he had two full sisters named Aliyah and Sulaimah.
| class="wikitable" border="2"
!No. !Abbasids !Relation |
| 1
| Half-brother |
| 2
| Half-brother |
| 3
| Half-sister |
| 4
| Half-brother |
| 5
| Half-sister |
| 6
| Half-brother |
| 7
| Aliyah bint al-Mahdi | Sister |
| 8
| Ali ibn al-Mahdi | Half-brother |
| 9
| Sulaimah bint al-Mahdi | Sister |
| 10
| Abdallah ibn al-Mahdi | Half-brother |
| 11
| Banuqa bint al-Mahdi | Half-sister |
| 12
| Isa ibn al-Mahdi{{sfn|Abbott|1946|p=31}} | Half-brother |
References
{{Reflist}}
Sources
- {{cite book | last=Abbott | first=Nabia |author-link=Nabia Abbott | title=Two Queens of Baghdad: Mother and Wife of Hārūn Al Rashīd | publisher=University of Chicago Press | year=1946 | isbn=978-0-86356-031-6 }}
- Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (1993). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936. E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936. E.J. Brill
- Al-Tabari; John Alden Williams (1988). Al-̣Tabarī: Volume 1, The Reign of Abū Ja'Far Al-Maṇsūr A. D. 754-775: The Early 'Abbāsī Empire. Al-Tabari. the Early Abbasi Empire. Cambridge University Press.
- {{cite journal |last1=Madelung |first1=Wilferd |title=Abūʾl ʿAmayṭar the Sufyānī |journal=Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam |date=2000 |volume=24 |pages=327–343 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AI5tAAAAMAAJ}}
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