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Abd al-Rahman Shanjul ibn al-Mansur

عبد الرحمن شنجول بن المنصور

Al-Mansur's son 'Sanjul' — little Sancho, for his Christian grandfather — who forced the captive caliph Hisham to name him heir in a formal deed of Rabi I 398, the provocation that sparked the Berber fitna and ended with the armies surrendering him to death 1.

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Roles
Vizier · Ruler
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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Overview

Abd al-Rahman Sanjul, son of al-Mansur ibn Abi Amir, whose nickname Sanjul means "little Sancho". He took the affair after his brother al-Muzaffar, and took the title al-Nasir li-Din Allah, and it is said al-Ma'mun. 1

Succession

He followed the practice of his father and brother of restraining the caliph Hisham. Then he asked Hisham to name him as his heir, and the deed was written for him in Rabi al-Awwal 398 AH. Al-Maqqari says that this was the cause of the strife which ended in his capture and killing. 1

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Child of
al-Mansur ibn Abi Amir
Participated in
The Cordoba Strife and the Rising of Ibn Abd al-Jabbar

People and things also explored

al-Mansur's Raid on Shant Ya'qub (Santiago de Compostela)· Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar ibn Abi Amir· هشام المؤيد بالله· محمد بن هشام المهدي· سليمان المستعين بالله الأموي· Cordoba· The Cordoba Strife and the Rising of Ibn Abd al-Jabbar· al-Mansur ibn Abi Amir

Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 460-461
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al-Mansur's Raid on Shant Ya'qub (Santiago de Compostela)

Al-Mansur's forty-eighth raid and his deepest: from Cordoba, 6 Jumada II 387, to Santiago de Compostela — the Christians' Kaaba — reached empty on Wednesday 2 Sha'ban; its church, walls and factories demolished, the apostle's tomb guarded and the lone monk 'Ones of James' spared, then the army pushed to Santi Mankish island, 'a limit no Muslim had reached before them', and he wrote his victory dispatch from Baliquiya.