Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin

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Al-Mansur ibn buluggin
Zirid emir of Ifriqiya
Dinar of al-'Aziz billah, AH 366 (AD 976-977)
Reign	984-995
Coronation	984
Predecessor	Buluggin ibn ziri
Successor	Badis ibn al-Mansur
Born	Al-Mansur ibn buluggin
Died	c..995
Father	Buluggin ibn ziri
Religion	Islam

al-Mansûr ibn Buluggin (Arabic: المنصور بن بلوجن) (died 995) was the second ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya (r. 984–995).

Al-Mansur succeeded his father Buluggin ibn Ziri (r. 972–984) in Ifriqiya. Despite further campaigns by the Zirids against the Berber tribes of Morocco, he was forced to abandon the attempt at a permanent conquest of Fez and Sijilmasa. Still, he was able to consolidate Zirid rule in the central Maghreb when he defeated the Kutama Berbers in 988, and when his brother Hammad ibn Buluggin, as governor of Algeria, drove the Zanata Berbers into Morocco. The vassal relationship to the Fatimids became increasingly loose under al-Mansur, not least because their focus of attention was on the overthrow of the Abbasids in Iraq.

He was succeeded by Badis ibn al-Mansur (996–1016).

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