Spurred to action over concern the idea of intermediate technology would languish, Schumacher, George McRobie, Mansur Hoda and Julia Porter brought together a group of approximately 20 people to form the Intermediate Technology Development Group ( ITDG ) in May 1965.

B. V. Doshi, Buckminster Fuller, William Moyer ( 1933 – 2002 ), Amory Lovins, Sanoussi Diakité, Victor Papanek, Giorgio Ceragioli ( 1930 – 2008 ), Frithjof Bergmann, Arne Næss ( 1912 – 2009 ) and Mansur Hoda.

Together with long-time friends and associates like Professor Mansur Hoda, Schumacher founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group ( now Practical Action ) in 1966.

Encouraged by the response, Schumacher and a few of his associates, including George McRobie, Alfred Latham-Koenig and Professor Mansur Hoda, decided to create an " advisory centre " to promote the use of efficient labour-intensive techniques, and in 1966 the Intermediate Technology Development Group ( ITDG ) was born.

* Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin ( born 1944 ), American musician and hip hop pioneer

* Ustad Mansur, Mughal painter from India

In order to acquire a safe passage for him and his armies to cross the Yusufzai territory and invade the capital of the Afghan Lodi Empire in Delhi, India, Babur married Mubarika Yusufzai, the daughter of the Yusufzai chief Shah Mansur Yusufzai, on January 20, 1519.

Immediately following the merger India arrested three senior members: Nasrullah Mansur Langaryal, chief of the former Harkat-ul Mujahideen in November 1993 ; Maulana Masood Azhar, General Secretary in February 1994, and Sajjad Afghani ( Sajjad Sajid ) in the same month in Srinagar.

* Chin Temur Sultan-was in service of both Sultan Said Khan and Mansur Khan, but eventually fled to Babur of Moghul Empire in India.

* Yunus Temur Sultan-fled from service of Sultan Said Khan and Mansur Khan and entered to Babur service in India.

Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Umar Bin Hassan, and Abiodun Oyewole, along with percussionist Nilaja Obabi, are generally considered the primary and core members of the group, as it appeared on the group's 1970 self-titled debut and, in various combinations, on subsequent releases.

Shah Mansur and ' Imad ad-Din Ahmad, along with other Muzaffarid princes, went to Shiraz to declare their loyalty, whereupon Timur restored them to their positions.

Hang Li Po came to Malacca along with 500 ( sons of ministers ) and other female attendants, many attendants later married officials serving Mansur Shah as Hang Li Po married the sultan after she accepted conversion to Islam.

Ayn al-Quzat along with Mansur al-Hallaj and Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi are known as the three martyrs of Sufism.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

A fundamental change occurred when the Fatimid Caliph attempted to push into Syria in the later half of the 10th century, here they were faced with the now Turkish dominated forces of the Abbasid Caliph and began to realize the limits of their current military, thus during the reign of Abu Mansur Nizar al-Aziz Billah and Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah the Caliph began incorporating armies of Turks and later Black Africans ( even later, other groups such as Armenians were also used ).

The Malay Annals described in details the incident of Raja Muhammad, a son of Sultan Mansur Shah who was accidentally hit with a rattan ball by Tun Besar, a son of Tun Perak, in a Sepak raga game.

* Murshid-A Personal Memoir of Life with American Sufi Samuel L. Lewis by spiritual secretary of Samuel Lewis, Mansur Johnson ( http :// www. mansurjohnson. com /-ISBN 0-915424-16-9 )

Mansur believed in union with the Divine, that God was within him, and that he and God had become one and the same.

Several times, after occupying Hami, Mansur tried to attack China in 1524 with 20, 000 men, but was beaten by Chinese forces.

The Turpan kingdom under Mansur in alliance with Oirat Mongols tried to raid Suzhou in Gansu in 1528, but were severely defeated by Ming Chinese forces and suffered heavy casualties.

Abu ` Ali " Mansur " had been proclaimed as heir-apparent ( wali al -‘ ahd ) in 993 CE and succeeded his father Abū Mansūr Nizār al-Azīz ( 975 – 996 ) at the age of eleven on 14 October, 996 with the caliphal title of al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah.

# A peculiar occurrence in Terengganu history, after Sultan Zainal Abidin I died, his youngest son, Sultan Mansur Riayat Shah I enthroned as Sultan with the title Yang di-Pertuan Kecil ( during his minority ), while his oldest son, Ku Tanang Wangsa held the Yang di-Pertuan Besar title equivalent to Regent.

Following the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 15 August 1975 Syed fled underground with other Mujib loyalists such as Tajuddin Ahmed, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman and Muhammad Mansur Ali, but was ultimately arrested by the regime of the new president Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad.

Together with Ki Hadjar Dewantoro and Muhammadiyah Chairman, Kiai Haji Mas Mansur, Hatta and Sukarno formed a quattuorvirate of leaders tasked by the Japanese occupational Government as their intermediary with the Indonesian people.

Following Mahmud's death from cholera, the Acehnese proclaimed a young grandson of Tuanku Ibrahim, named Tuanku Muhammad Daud Syah, as Sultan Ibrahim Mansur Syah ( r. 1874 – 1903 ) and continued their struggle in the hills and jungle territory for ten years, with heavy casualties on both sides.

In 1784 Sheikh Mansur, now an Imam, became upset with the Russian encroachment in the North Caucasus.

During the reign of Sultan Mansur Shah ( 1456-1477 ), he was sentenced to death by the Sultan for committing adultery with one of the sultan's wives.

Since Abdallah, the heir to the throne, had died before his father Al-Mu ' izz li-Din Allah ( 953-975 ), his brother Abu Mansur Nizar al-Azizbillah acceded to the Caliphate with the help of Jawhar as-Siqilli.

Al-Muizz ascended the throne as a minor following the death of his father Badis ibn Mansur, with his aunt acting as regent.

Muluk Sabzavari did become involved with the revolt of Hajji Beg of the Ja ' un-i Qurban ( which had been forcibly submitted to Timur's rule around 1381 ) in Tus in 1389, and afterwards sought refuge with the Muzaffarid Shah Mansur in Isfahan, but was eventually pardoned by Timur and given the governorship of Basra near the end of 1393.

After Mansur Ali Khan's abdication, his son, Hassan Ali Mirza succeeded as the first Nawab of Murshidabad with the lesser title of Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad after the title of Nawab of Bengal was abolished in 1880.

ibn Juljul, al-Qifti, ibn abi Usaibi ' ah ), during the reign of Mansur ibn Ishaq ibn Ahmad ibn Asad who was Governor of Rey from 290-296 AH ( 902-908 C. E.

This was refuted by ibn al-Nadim ', but al-Qifti and ibn abi Usaibi ' ah confirmed that the named Mansur was indeed Mansur ibn Isma ' il who died in 365 AH ( 975 C. E .).

However, records indicate Ahmad al-Rifa ' i inherited his maternal uncle's, Mansur al-Bata ' ihi, position of headship to his religious community in 1145-6 C. E.

* Aroostook County Courthouse and Jail, Houlton, Maine ( 1859, with Wilfred E. Mansur )

* L. E. y J. Mansur v. Netherlands, Comunicación No. 883 / 1999, U. N. Doc.

* Messrs. L. E. and J. Mansur ( represented by Dr. Jan M. Sjöcrona and Mr. John H. van der Kuyp ) v. the Netherlands, Communication No. 883 / 1999, U. N. Doc.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

Mansur hoped to establish a Transcaucasus Islamic state under shari ' a law, but was unable to fully achieve this because in the course of the war he was wounded and captured, and for unknown reasons, died.

The Tashrih al-badan ( Anatomy of the body ) of Mansur ibn Ilyas ( c. 1390 ) contained comprehensive diagrams of the body's structural, nervous and circulatory systems.

The chief theological opponents of iconoclasm were the monks Mansur ( John of Damascus ), who, living in Muslim territory as advisor to the Caliph of Damascus, was far enough away from the Byzantine emperor to evade retribution, and Theodore the Studite, abbot of the Stoudios monastery in Constantinople.

The painter Ustad Mansur became one of the best artists to document the animals and plants which Jahangir either encountered on his military exhibitions or received as donations from emissaries of other countries.

* 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi stated that the human mind could know of the existence of God and the major forms of ' good ' and ' evil ' without the help of revelation.

Upon his release, he was brought before Prime Minister Hasan Ali Mansur, who tried to convince Khomeini that he should apologize and drop his opposition to the government.

In fury, Mansur slapped Khomeini's face.

Two weeks later, Mansur was assassinated on his way to parliament.

He died a natural death and was succeeded by his brother Mansur ad-Din who invaded the capital and royal seat of the Solomonic Empire and drove Emperor Dawit II to Yedaya where according to al-Maqrizi, Sultan Mansur destroyed a Solomonic army and killed the Emperor.

Later on in the campaign, the Adalites were struck by a catastrophe when Sultan Mansur and his brother Muhammad were captured in battle by the Solomonids.

Mansur was immediately succeeded by the youngest brother of the family Jamal ad-Din II.

The fourth Mughal emperor Jahangir ( r. 1605-24 ), commissioned a painting of the zebra, which was completed by Ustad Mansur.

* c. 1000 – Law of sines is discovered by Muslim mathematicians, but it is uncertain who discovers it first between Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, Abu Nasr Mansur, and Abu al-Wafa.

Most of the leading scientists around the year 1000 were Muslim scientists, including Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhacen ), Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, Avicenna, Abu al-Qasim ( Abulcasis ), Ibn Yunus, Abu Sahl al-Quhi ( Kuhi ), Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abu al-Wafa, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Al-Muqaddasi, Ali Ibn Isa, and al-Karaji ( al-Karkhi ), among others.

* Badis ibn Mansur, third ruler of the Zirid dynasty in North Africa.