Akhtar Mansour
Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor (Pashto: اختر محمد منصور Akhtar Muḥammad Manṣūr; pronounced /ɑːktɑː mɑːnsjʊər/ or /æktɑː mænsjʊər/; born probably 1968, although possibly 1963 or '65) (also spelled Mansur and Mansour, also, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour Khan Muhammad, and possibly, Naib Imam) is the Emir (leader) of the Ṭālibān, an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan.
Early life
Mansoor is thought as born, either in a village named Kariz, or another named Band-i-Taimoor (source: I.E.A.), both in the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan, sometime during the 1960s. The biography released by the Talibans' Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan website shows 1347 according to the solar Hijri calendar, corresponding to 1968, a date corroborated by S. Mehsud, of the C.T.C. West Point; although other sources give 1960, 1963 and 1965 as his birth years. According to Ahmed Rashid, Mansoor belongs to the Alizai tribe, but other sources claim that he belongs to the Ishaqzai tribe, in any case, both the Alizai and the Ishaqzai are of the Durrani line of the Pashtun people. Mullah Mansoor was educated at a village mosque and joined primary school at about the age of seven (source: I.E.A.).
Mansur
Mansur (Arabic: منصور, Manṣūr; also spelled Munsor, Mansoor, Mansour, Monsour, Mansyur or Mensur) is a male Arabic name that means "the one who is victorious", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory."
The first known bearer of the name was Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad.
Other people called Mansur during the golden Age of Islam include:
Imams of Yemen
Mansour (singer)
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Mansour (Persian: منصور , born 28 July 1971), also called Mansour Jafari Mamaghani, is an Iranian artist of Iranian Azerbaijani origin born in Tehran, Iran renowned as a Persian musical artist based in Southern California.
Background
Early years 1971
Mansour was born in Tehran, Iran and emigrated with his family to the U.S. during the Iran-Iraq war.
Initiation 1991
In 1991, Mansour embarked on recording his first album. A project that would eventually take three years to complete, the debutante is said to spend much time in preparation to refine his voice and vocal techniques under rigorous training lessons. He also insisted on hand-picking the producers, lyricists and arrangers for this album, all of which he financed from the revenues of a pager and cell phone store that he owned. He was later married to Maryam Gordpour, in 2009. They now have two kids living in the hills.
First album 1994
In August 1994, Mansour’s debut album Ferferehayeh Bi Baad (started in 1991) was released through Caltex Records. Labeled as fresh and different for its upbeat and electronic pop textures, it garnered the attention of the new generation of Persian speaking youths of exiled Iranians who had become accustomed to Western music of similar type and thus easily accepted this mode of style into the Iranian music. In this album , Mansour works with some of the greatest Persian musicians such as: Siavash Ghomayshi, Abdi Yamini, Hassan Shamaeizadeh and Manouchehr Cheshmazar. And also famous lyricists like : Shahyar Ghanbari, Homayoun Hooshyarnejad and Masoud Fardmanesh .
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