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Mansour Al Ajmi
Mansour (, Manṣūr); also spelled Mounsor, Monsur (Bengali), Mansoor, Manser, Mansur, Mansyur (Indonesian) or Mensur (Turkish), is a male Arabic name that means "He who is victorious", from the Arabic root ''nasr (other), naṣr'' (نصر), meaning "victory." The first known bearer of the name was Mansur ibn Sarjun, Byzantine governor of Damascus in the late 500s and early 600s, who surrendered the city to the Muslims in 635. Other people called Mansur include, during the golden Age of Islam: * Al-Mansur, second Abbasid dynasty, Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad. * Ismail al-Mansur, third ruler of the Fatimid dynasty ruled from 946 to 953. * Mansur Al-Hallaj, Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism * Almanzor, 10th-century ruler of al-Andalus * Mansur ibn Ilyas, Timurid physician * Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan), a khan of Moghulistan * Mansur Shah of Malacca, a sultan of Malacca * Mansur I of Samanid and Mansur II of Samanid, amirs of the Samanids * Mansur a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabia
The Arabian Peninsula (, , or , , ) or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated north-east of Africa on the Arabian plate. At , comparable in size to India, the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world. Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. The largest of these is Saudi Arabia. In the Roman era, the Sinai Peninsula was also considered a part of Arabia. The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and south-west, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the north-east, the Levant and Mesopotamia to the north and the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to the south-east. The peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Arab world and globally due to its vast reserves of petroleum, oil and natural gas. Before the mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
