This new entry into the Longman World Biography series examines a leading statesman who guided a key country during a pivotal time in history.  Al-Mansur was a man of contradictions whose policies combined a vision of the future with a longing for the past; by building one state, he destroyed another.

This new entry into the Longman World Biography series examines a leading statesman who guided a key country during a pivotal time in history.  Al-Mansur was a man of contradictions whose policies combined a vision of the future with a longing for the past; by building one state, he destroyed another.