Mansur

Mansour (Arabic: منصور, Manṣūr); also spelled Mansoor, Monsoor, Mansur or Mensur is a male Arabic name that means "He who is victorious", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory." The first known bearer of the name was Mansur ibn Sarjun, Byzantine governor of Damascus in the late 500s and early 600s, who surrendered the city to the Muslims in 635. Other people called Mansur include, during the golden Age of Islam: Al-Mansur (714–775), second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad. Ismail al-Mansur (914–953), third ruler of the Fatimid dynasty ruled from 946 to 953. Mansur Al-Hallaj (858–922), Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism Almanzor (938–1002), 10th-century ruler of al-Andalus Mansur ibn Ilyas, Timurid physician Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan) (1482/83–1543), a khan of Moghulistan Mansur Shah of Malacca (died 1477), a sultan of Malacca Mansur I of Samanid (died 976), amir of the Samanids Mansur II of Samanid (died 999), amir of the Samanids Mansur ad-Din of Adal (died 1424), 15th-century sultan of Adal. Mansour Zalzal, Iranian musician during the Abbasid period