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Ahmad al-Mansur

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Ahmad al-Mansur [al-Mansur,=the victorious], d. 1603, emir of Morocco (1578-1603). Proclaimed ruler after his brother's death at the battle of Ksar el Kebir , he gained prestige from the victory over Portugal. In addition, the ransom of the Portuguese captives made him wealthy. He was able to give Morocco a quarter-century of relative peace and prosperity. His conquest of Timbuktu (1590-91) marked the peak of Morocco's extension into the territory S of the Sahara. The cost of maintaining an army at so great a distance prevented him from gaining any permanent benefit from the conquest. He engaged... Read more

Ibn 'Aqil
...Islamic theologian. Trained in the tenets of the Hanbali school ( Ahmad ibn Hanbal ), the most traditional school of Islamic law, he...al-Hallaj . In 1066 he was appointed professor at the mosque of al-Mansur in Baghdad, but persecution by conservative theologians soon... Read more

Ksar el Kebir
...King Sebastian, and the Moroccan pretender, Muhammad, all died in the fighting. As a result of the battle, Portugal soon passed (1580) to Philip II of Spain, and the new Moroccan ruler, Ahmad al-Mansur, began his reign with tremendous prestige. Read more

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