al-mansur

Updated: August 13, 2026

The mighty conflict which ensued is very briefly dismissed by Al-Makkari "Al-mansur attacked and defeated them with great loss" but a far different account is given by the Christian chroniclers, who represent the Moslems as only saved from a total overthrow by the approach of night.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844

This canal served commerce until the century of Rome's Antonine emperors; it was then abandoned and covered with sand, subsequently reinstated by Arabia's Caliph Omar I, and finally filled in for good in 761 or 762 A.D. by Caliph Al-Mansur, in an effort to prevent supplies from reaching Mohammed ibn Abdullah, who had rebelled against him.

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea