al-Mansur ibn Abi Amir

Muhammad ibn Abi Amir, whom the caliph al-Hakam al-Mustansir moved from the judgeship to the vizierate. After al-Hakam's death he came to dominate his son Hisham al-Mu'ayyad. ¹

He kept Hisham out of sight and prevented the viziers from reaching him except rarely. He summoned men of the Zanata and the Berbers from the Adwa and formed troops from them, advanced them and put the men of the Arabs behind them in rank. He built for himself a city he called al-Zahira. ¹

Ibn Khaldun says that he undertook fifty-two raids in which no banner of his was broken. Al-Maqqari counts them as fifty-six raids in all the days of his rule. ² Al-Maqqari also relates his meeting with a monk at the tomb of Bashnat Ya'qub, and that he ordered that the monk be left alone. ²

According to Ibn Khaldun he died in 384 AH at the city of Salim on his way back from a raid. According to al-Maqqari it was in 394 AH at the same place, and he was buried there. ² The difference between the two accounts of the year remains, and needs an additional source.

• The summary of the data attributes the two differing numbers of raids and the two years of death to their sources.