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Mūsá ibn Nuṣayr, 640-716?

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Personal name headingMūsá ibn Nuṣayr, 640-716?
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Variant(s)Ibn Nuṣayr, Mūsá, 640-716?
موسى بن نصير
موسى بن نصير، 640-716
Associated countryEgypt
Birth date0640~
Death date0716~
Profession or occupationPoliticians Governors
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inDaurella, P. Musa, c1991.
Ency. of Islam (Mūsā b. Nuṣair b. ʻAbd al-Raḥmān; Arab governor, conqueror of the western Maghrib and of Spain; b. 19/640; d. 98/716 or 17)
Ziriklī, (Mūsá ibn Nuṣayr; 19-97/640-715; Mūsá ibn Nuṣayr ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ... Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān)
Manual auth. cd. (Mūsá ibn Nuṣayr, 640-716?)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Musa ibn Nusayr; political figure; born c. 640, place unknown; was governor of North Africa during the early eighth century; held his first administrative post in Egypt, where he served as an advisor to the caliph Marwan's son 'Abd al-'Aziz, beginning 684; was appointed governor over Muslim holdings in North Africa (698 or 705); took his own army across the Straits of Gibraltar in 712 and conquered portions of the peninsula; died c. 716, place unknown)