# al-Mansur

- id: al-mansur
- dates: c. 714–775
- roles: patron, commissioner

Second Abbasid caliph, founder of Baghdad, and the ruler whose court received the Indian embassy of the early 770s. Astrology convinced him; the Arabic Sindhind was the result.

## Crossings

- c. 771–775: Brahmasphutasiddhanta into Arabic (commissioner) [probable]

## Sources

- Gutas, Dimitri (1998). Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasid Society.
- Pingree, David (1970). The Fragments of the Works of al-Fazari.