Editing Al-Mansur (section)

==Family==
Al-Mansur's first wife was [[Arwa bint Mansur al-Himyari|Arwa]] known as Umm Musa, whose lineage went back to the 
[[Himyarite Kingdom|kings of Himyar]].<ref name="abbott">{{cite book | last=Abbott | first=Nabia |author-link=Nabia Abbott | title=Two Queens of Baghdad: Mother and Wife of Hārūn Al Rashīd | publisher=University of Chicago Press | year=1946 | pages = 15–16 | isbn=978-0-86356-031-6 }}</ref> Her father was Mansur al-Himyari. She had a brother named Yazid.<ref name="Kennedy">{{cite book|author1=[[al-Tabari]] |author2=Hugh Kennedy | title=The History of al-Tabari Vol. 29: Al-Mansur and al-Mahdi A.D. 763-786/A.H. 146-169 | publisher=State University of New York Press | series=SUNY series in Near Eastern Studies | year=1990 | pages=148–49}}</ref> She had two sons, Muhammad (future Caliph [[al-Mahdi]]) and [[Ja'far ibn Abdallah al-Mansur|Ja'far]].<ref name="abbott"/> She died in 764.<ref name="abbott"/> Another wife was Hammadah. Her father was Isa,<ref name="al-sai">{{cite book | last1=al-Sāʿī | first1=Ibn | last2=Toorawa | first2=Shawkat M. | last3=Bray | first3=Julia | title=كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء: Women and the Court of Baghdad | publisher=NYU Press | series=Library of Arabic Literature | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-4798-6679-3 }}</ref> one of al-Mansur's uncles.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Khallikān | first1=Ibn | last2=de Slane | first2=W.M.G. | title=Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary | publisher=Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1 | year=1842 | page=535}}</ref> She died during al-Mansur's caliphate.<ref name="al-sai"/> Another wife was [[Fatimah bint Muhammad al-Taymi|Fatimah]]. Her father was Muhammad, one of the descendants of [[Talhah|Talhah ibn Ubaydullah]]. She had three sons, [[Sulayman ibn Abi Ja'far|Sulayman]], Isa, and Ya'qub.<ref name="Kennedy"/> One of his concubines was a Kurdish woman. She was the mother of al-Mansur's son Ja'far 'Ibn al-Kurdiyyah' ([[Arabic Name|Nasab]] translating to "Son of the Kurdish woman"). Unlike his other adult half-brothers, little is known of Ja'far and he likely was not involved in politics or had marriage or issue. However, his death is recorded at 802 AD by palace records suggesting he lived into adulthood and continued to live at court rather than having been banished or dying before adulthood.<ref name="Kennedy"/> Another concubine was Qali-al Farrashah. She was a Greek, and was the mother of al-Mansur's son Salih al-Miskin.<ref name="Kennedy"/> Another concubine was Umm al-Qasim, whose son al-Qasim died at aged ten.<ref name="Kennedy"/> Al-Masnur's only daughter [[Aliyah bint al-Mansur|Aliyah]] was born to an Umayyad woman. She married [[Ishaq ibn Sulayman al-Hashimi|Ishaq ibn Sulayman]].<ref name="Kennedy"/>