M0088600 (măn-so͝or′), al- Full name Abu Jafar Abdullah al-Mansur. 712?-775. Second Abbasid caliph (754-775), who founded Baghdad in 764.
Mansur
(mænˈsʊə) n (Biography) Abu Ja'far al- (ˈæbuː ˈdzæfə ˈæl). 712–75 ad, 2nd caliph of the Abbasid dynasty (754–75). He founded Baghdad (762) and made it the Islamic capital