Mansur ibn Jamwana al-Amiri

Mansur ibn Jamwana ibn al-Harith al-Amiri of Qays, from whom the fortress of Mansur takes its name. ¹

Al-Baladhuri says that he took charge of building and repairing the fortress, and stayed in it in the days of Marwan with a large army from the people of Syria and al-Jazira to repel the enemy. Then he was over the people of Edessa when they refused in the early days of the Abbasid state; al-Mansur besieged them, and he fled, then came out under safe conduct and appeared. ¹

Abdallah ibn Ali appointed him over his police on the day that he deposed him. When Abdallah fled to Basra, Mansur hid, and then was given away in 141 AH, and al-Mansur killed him at al-Raqqa. It is also said that letters to the Romans were found on him, and his neck was struck at al-Raqqa. ¹

See the killing of Mansur ibn Jamwana.