Al-Mansur
Second Abbasid Caliph (714-775) · Politicians · Lived 713 to 775 · aged 62
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Something wrong?The second Abbasid caliph who stabilized a dynasty his brother had started but couldn't hold. He built Baghdad from nothing - a perfect round city that became the center of an empire stretching farther than most maps could show.
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Abbāsid Caliph al-Manṣūr from the genealogy (silsilanāma), Cream of Histories (Zübdet-üt Tevarih, 1598)
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`Abbāsid Caliphs al-Manṣūr, Hārūn al-Rashīd and al-Ma’mūn, with rulers Būya and Aḥmad Sāmānī (verso), from the genealogy (silsilanāma), Cream of Histories (Zübdet-üt Tevarih)
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المنصور الخليفة أبو جعفر عبد الله بن محمد بن علي بن عبد الله بن العباس بن عبد المطلب الهاشمي العباسي القرشي
شجرة عائلة السفاح والمنصورIn their own words 2
, Kings can tolerate everything but three practices- revealing a secret, an outrage on his harem, or a blow aimed at his power.
When thy enemy stretches out his hand to thee, cut it off if thou art able, otherwise kiss it.
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Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr was born in 714 and took power in 754 after his brother al-Saffah died, inheriting a caliphate barely four years old. Where al-Saffah had seized the throne, al-Mansur made it last: he spent his reign turning a fragile takeover into institutions that could survive him. In that work he founded Madinat al-Salam, the Round City, which grew into imperial Baghdad. He ruled until his death on 6 October 775. Modern historians call him the real founder of the Abbasid Caliphate - one of the largest polities in world history - because he was the one who made it possible for it to endure.
Politicians born in the 710s 3
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