Mansur (Arabic: منصور, Manṣūr; also spelled Mansoor, Mansour, Monsour or Mensur) is a male Arabic name that means "victorious, by the will of God", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory."
The first known bearer of the name was Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad.
Other people called Mansur during the golden Age of Islam include:
- Mansur I of Samanid and Mansur II of Samanid, amirs of the Samanids
- Ismail al-Mansur, third Caliph of the Fatimids
- Mansur ad-Din of Adal, a sultan of Adal
- Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism
- Mansur ibn Ilyas, a Timurid physician
- Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan), a khan of Moghulistan
- Mansur Shah of Malacca, a sultan of Malacca
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