Dinar of al-'Aziz billah, AH 366 (AD 976-977)

al-Mansûr ibn Buluggin () (died 995) was the second ruler of the

Zirids The Zirid dynasty ( ar, الزيريون, translit=az-zīriyyūn), Banu Ziri ( ar, بنو زيري, translit=banū zīrī), or the Zirid state ( ar, الدولة الزيرية, translit=ad-dawla az-zīriyya) was a Sanhaja Berber dynasty from ...

Ifriqiya Ifriqiya ( '), also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna ( ar, المغرب الأدنى), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (today's western Libya). It included all of what had previously ...

(r. 984–995).

Life

Al-Mansur succeeded his father Buluggin ibn Ziri (r. 972–984) in

. Despite further campaigns by the Zirids against the

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tribes of

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, he was forced to abandon the attempt at a permanent conquest of

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and

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. Still, he was able to consolidate Zirid rule in the central

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when he defeated the Kutama Berbers in 988, and when his brother

Hammad ibn Buluggin Hammad ibn Buluggin () (died 1028) was the first ruler of the Hammadid dynasty in what is now Algeria (1014–1028). Life After the death of his father Buluggin ibn Ziri, al-Mansur ibn Buluggin (984–995), Hammad's brother, became the head o ...

, as governor of

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, drove the Zanata Berbers into Morocco. The vassal relationship to the

Fatimids The Fatimid Caliphate was an Isma'ilism, Ismaili Shia Islam, Shi'a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the ea ...

became increasingly loose under al-Mansur, not least because their focus of attention was on the overthrow of the

Abbasids The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttalib ...

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. He was succeeded by Badis ibn al-Mansur (996–1016). {{DEFAULTSORT:Mansur Ibn Buluggin 995 deaths Zirid emirs of Ifriqiya Tunisian Shia Muslims Year of birth unknown 10th-century Berber people 10th-century rulers in Africa Vassal rulers of the Fatimid Caliphate 10th-century people of Ifriqiya