Mansur
Mansour (Arabic: منصور, Manṣūr); also spelled Mounsor, Monsur (Bengali), Mansoor, Manser, Mansur, Mansyur (Indonesian) or Mensur (Turkish), is a male Arabic name that means "He who is victorious", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory."
| Pronunciation | Arabic: [manˈsˤuːr] |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | 'He who is Victorious' |
| Region of origin | Arabia |
| Other names | |
| Alternative spelling | Mansur, Mansoor |
| Variant form(s) | Nasir, Nasser, Nasri, Nasrallah, Nasir al-Din Victor, Vincent |
The first known bearer of the name was Mansur ibn Sarjun, Byzantine governor of Damascus in the late 500s and early 600s, who surrendered the city to the Moslems in 635.
Other people called Mansur include, during the golden Age of Islam:
- Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad.
- Ismail al-Mansur, third ruler of the Fatimid dynasty ruled from 946 to 953.
- Mansur Al-Hallaj, Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism
- Almanzor, 10th-century ruler of al-Andalus
- Mansur ibn Ilyas, Timurid physician
- Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan), a khan of Moghulistan
- Mansur Shah of Malacca, a sultan of Malacca
- Mansur I of Samanid and Mansur II of Samanid, amirs of the Samanids
- Mansur ad-Din of Adal, 15th-century sultan of Adal.
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