LC control no. | n 91100244 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Mūsá ibn Nuṣayr, 640-716? |
Variant(s) | Ibn Nuṣayr, Mūsá, 640-716? موسى بن نصير موسى بن نصير، 640-716 |
Associated country | Egypt |
Birth date | 0640~ |
Death date | 0716~ |
Profession or occupation | Politicians Governors |
Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
Found in | Daurella, 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) |