Arabic-L:GEN:Ibn Amir Al Mansur query

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Date: 18 Oct 2007
From:Abderrahman Aissa <Aissa.Abderrahman at Colorado.EDU>
Subject:Ibn Amir Al Mansur query


Dear all:

Does anyone know much about, or has written or read anything about  
the In-Charge of the Ummayyad Caliphate (976-1002) in andalusia  Ibn  
Amir Mohamed Al Mansoor, nicknamed the Victorious (al mansoor, in  
Arabic)?  (in Arabic, Spanish, French, english or German)

I am particularly interested in him being an aberration of the  
Umayyad Caliphate, having usurped _ and through murder and michief  
and brutality_ taken complete control of power upon the death of  
Caliph Al Hakam II, (Caliph Hicham was only 12 yrs old so he was kept  
as figure-head Caliph), and also in him  possibly being responsible  
for rushing the fall of the muslim Caliphate due to his very  
ambitious and aggressive attacks on the northern CHristian kingdoms  
(for exple: his sacking and desecration of the holiest Christian site  
at the time: Santiago de Compostela, in 997, after which Christians  
unified more than ever against the moors!)

I would really apprecaite anyone's help

Wa shukran!!!

Abderrahman Aissa
Dept of Spanish & Portuguese
Director of the Arabic & ME Program
abderrah at colordao.edu
303-492-4111

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