منصور بن جاونة بن الحارث العامري

منصور بن جاونة بن الحارث العامري

Mansur ibn Jamwana ibn al-Harith al-Amiri of Qays, namesake of Hisn Mansur; in al-Baladhuri: he undertook the fortress's building and upkeep, stationed there in Marwan's days with a dense Syrian and Jaziran host to repel the enemy, then was set over al-Ruha's people when they withheld early in the Abbasid state — al-Mansur besieged them, he fled, was amaned and appeared; Abdallah ibn Ali made him chief of his police at his deposition, and when Abdallah fled to Basra he hid, was betrayed in year 141 and killed by al-Mansur at al-Raqqa — or, it is said, letters of his to the Romans betraying Islam were found, and his neck was struck at al-Raqqa.