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Also Known As Almanzor • Muḥammad ibn Abū ʿĀmir al-Manṣūr
Born c.938
Died August 10, 1002 • Spain
Title / Office vizier (978-1002), Córdoba, Caliphate of
Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III
Umayyad caliph
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Ibn Khaldūn
Ibn Khaldūn
Muslim historian
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Muslim alchemist
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar