Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin

Al-Mansur ibn buluggin
Zirid emir of Ifriqiya
Dinar of al-'Aziz billah, AH 366 (AD 976-977)
Reign	25 May 984 - 26 March 996
Coronation	984
Predecessor	Buluggin ibn Ziri
Successor	Badis ibn al-Mansur
Born	Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin
Died	26 March 996 [1]
Issue	Badis ibn al-Mansur Saïda bint Mansour Karama ibn al-Mansur (Commander under his brother Badis during the Hammadid–Zirid War).[2]
Father	Buluggin ibn Ziri
Religion	Islam

al-Mansûr ibn Buluggin (Arabic: المنصور بن بلوجن) (died 26 March 996 ^[3]) was the second ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya (r. 984–995).

Life

Al-Mansur succeeded his father Buluggin ibn Ziri (r. 972–984) in Ifriqiya. Despite further campaigns by the Zirids against the Berber tribes of Morocco, he was forced to abandon the attempt at a permanent conquest of Fez and Sijilmasa. Still, he was able to consolidate Zirid rule in the central Maghreb when he defeated the Kutama Berbers in 988, and when his brother Hammad ibn Buluggin, as governor of Algeria, drove the Zanata Berbers into Morocco. The vassal relationship to the Fatimids became increasingly loose under al-Mansur, not least because their focus of attention was on the overthrow of the Abbasids in Iraq.

He was succeeded by Badis ibn al-Mansur (996–1016).

References

1. Hadi, Roger Idris (1962). La Berberie Orientale Sous les Zirides (PDF). p. 83.
2. Hadi, Roger Idris (1962). La Berberie Orientale Sous les Zirides (PDF). p. 128.
3. Hadi, Roger Idris (1962). La Berberie Orientale Sous les Zirides (PDF). p. 83.

Preceded by Buluggin ibn Ziri

Zirid emir of Ifriqiya 984–996

Succeeded by Badis ibn al-Mansur