Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari
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Al-Ru'ayni Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari منصور بن يزيد بن منصور الحميري | |
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| Governor of Egypt | |
| In office 779 – 779 (two months) | |
| Monarch | al-Mahdi |
| Preceded by | Wadih al-Maskin |
| Succeeded by | Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Harashi |
| Governor of Yemen | |
| In office 781/2–783 | |
| Monarch | al-Mahdi |
| Governor of Khorasan | |
| In office 796–797 | |
| Monarch | Harun al-Rashid |
| Personal details | |
| Relations | al-Mahdi (maternal cousin) |
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Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari al-Ru'ayni (Arabic: منصور بن يزيد بن منصور الحميري الرعيني) was an eighth century official for the Abbasid Caliphate.
He was the son of Yazid ibn Mansur, a maternal uncle of the third Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi.[1] In 779 he spent two months as governor of Egypt.[2] Between 781/2 and 783 he was governor of the Yemen,[3] and in 796 he briefly served as the governor of Khurasan.[4]