Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari explained

Honorific Prefix:	Al-Ru'ayni
Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari منصور بن يزيد بن منصور الحميري
Term Start1:	779
Term End1:	779 (two months)
Successor1:	Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Harashi
Office2:	Governor of Yemen
Term Start2:	781/2
Term End2:	783
Term Start3:	796
Term End3:	797
Relations:	al-Mahdi (maternal cousin)
Father:	Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari

Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari al-Ru'ayni (Arabic: منصور بن يزيد بن منصور الحميري الرعيني) was an eighth century official for the Abbasid Caliphate.

He was the son of Yazid ibn Mansur, a maternal uncle of the third Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi. In 779 he spent two months as governor of Egypt.^[1] Between 781/2 and 783 he was governor of the Yemen,^[2] and in 796 he briefly served as the governor of Khurasan.^[3]

References

• Book: Bosworth, C. E. . The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650-1041: The Persian Text of Abu Sa'id 'Abd Al-Hayy Gardizi . 2011 . I.B.Tauris . C. E. Bosworth . 1–169 . 978-1-84885-353-9 .
• Book: The Works of Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi: An English Translation . 3 . Matthew S. . Gordon . Chase F. . Robinson . Everett K. . Rowson . Michael . Fishbein . 3. Leiden and Boston . Brill . 2018 . 978-90-04-35621-4 .
• Book: Hamzah al-Isfahani, Ibn al-Hasan . Hamzah al-Isfahani . 1844 . Hamzae Ispahanensis Annalium, Libri X . Gottwaldt . I.M.E. . Leipzig . Leopold Voss .
• Book: Ibn Abd al-Majid, Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Baqi al-Yamani . Ta'rikh al-Yaman al-Musamma Bahjat al-Zaman fi Ta'rikh al-Yaman . Dar Kalimah . Sana'a . 1985 .
• Book: Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf . Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II . Ibn Taghribirdi . 1930 . Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya . Cairo . Arabic .
• Book: Khalifah ibn Khayyat . Khalifa ibn Khayyat . Tarikh Khalifah ibn Khayyat, 3rd ed . Dar Taybah . Arabic . 1985 . Al-Riyadh . al-Umari . Akram Diya' .

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