Al-Mansur ibn al-Nasir
Al-Mansur ibn al-Nasir | |
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Sultan of the Hammadid Sultanate | |
Reign | 1088–1104 |
Predecessor | Nasir ibn Alnas |
Successor | Badis ibn al-Mansur |
Born | unknown date |
Died | 1104 |
Dynasty | Hammadid dynasty |
Religion | Islam |
Al-Mansur ibn al-Nasir (Arabic: المنصور بن الناصر) (died 1104) was the sixth ruler of the Hammadids in Algeria (1088–1104).
Biography[]
Al-Mansur ibn al-Nasir succeeded his father Al-Nasir in 1088.[1] In 1090 he left the kal'a (Beni Hammad Fort), the traditional capital of the Hammadids to settle in Béjaïa (Bougie) with his troop and His court,[2] which he considered less accessible to the nomads.[1] He left the region because of the destruction caused by the arrival of the banu Hilal.[2] His father had already prepared this transfer by transforming a fishing port into a city he calls An-Nasiriya but which was to assume the name of Bougie,[1] the name of a tribe that inhabited this region.[2] Al-Mansur built public buildings, palaces, a water distribution network and gardens in Bejaia.[3] The Hammadid kingdom thus abandoned its nomadic origins and became sedentary.[3] The Kal'a was not completely abandoned by al-Mansur and he even embellished it with a number of palaces.[1] The Hammadids therefore had two capitals joined by a royal road at this time.[4]
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Marçais, Georges. "al- Manṣūr". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. 6 (2nd ed.).
- ibn Khaldun (1854). Histoire des Berbères et des dynasties musulmanes de l'Afrique Septentrionale. Vol. 2. Translated by William McGuckin de Slane. Alger: Imprimerie du Gouvernement.
- 11th-century births
- 1104 deaths
- Hammadids
- 11th-century rulers in Africa
- 12th-century rulers in Africa
- 11th-century Berber people
- 12th-century Berber people