Al-Mansur

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Abbasid caliph Muslim ruler historical figure

Al-Mansur was the second Abbasid caliph who consolidated the Abbasid dynasty’s power and established Baghdad as its capital, making it a major political and cultural center of the Islamic world.

Aliases (3)

al-Mansur ×3
al-Manṣūr ×2
Abu Jaʿfar ʿAbdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mansur ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Abbasid caliph → Muslim ruler → historical figure →
birthPlace	Bilad al-Sham → al-Humayma →
birthYear	714 →
branchOfIslam	Sunni Islam →
brother	As-Saffah →
burialPlace	Mecca region →
caliphate	Abbasid Caliphate →
capitalEstablished	Baghdad →
capitalOfCaliphate	Baghdad →
deathCause	illness →
deathPlace	near Mecca →
deathYear	775 →
dynasty	Abbasid dynasty →
era	Islamic Golden Age (early phase) →
ethnicOrigin	Arab →
father	Muhammad ibn Ali al-Abbasi →
founded	City of Baghdad →
fullName	Abu Jaʿfar ʿAbdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mansur →
house	House of Abbas →
implementedPolicy	centralization of tax collection → curbing influence of military factions → strengthening of the bureaucracy →
knownFor	developing Baghdad as a planned city → fiscal and administrative reforms → strengthening Abbasid authority over the empire →
language	Arabic →
madeBaghdadCulturalCenterOf	Islamic world →
madeBaghdadPoliticalCenterOf	Islamic world →
notableFor	administrative centralization → consolidation of Abbasid power → promotion of scholarship → suppression of revolts →
positionHeld	Caliph → second Abbasid caliph →
predecessor	As-Saffah →
regnalName	al-Mansur →
reignEnd	775 →
reignStart	754 →
religion	Islam →
son	Al-Mahdi →
successor	Al-Mahdi →
territorialControl	Arabian Peninsula → Iraq → Khurasan → parts of Persia → parts of the Levant →
tribalAffiliation	Banu Hashim →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Baghdad →	founder
Al-Mansur ("Abu Jaʿfar ʿAbdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mansur") →	fullName
Early Islamic period ("al-Mansur") →	hasKeyFigure
al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib ("al-Mansur") →	notableDescendants
Al-Mansur ("al-Mansur") →	regnalName
As-Saffah ("al-Manṣūr") →	sibling
As-Saffah ("al-Manṣūr") →	successor