فتى الأندلس: الحاجب المنصور

A historical novel by Mahmoud Maher tracing the rise of al-Hajib al-Mansur—Muhammad ibn Abi Amir, known to the Christian kingdoms as Almanzor—the chamberlain who became the de facto ruler of Umayyad al-Andalus. It follows his journey to power through a world of court intrigue, politics, and bloodshed, and the campaigns that made him a byword for military might.

Maher, a researcher in Andalusian history and author of several novels set in al-Andalus, dramatizes how a young man of ambition unified Muslim forces in the peninsula and led them to a string of victories that echoed for generations. Part of the author's body of historical fiction on Islamic Spain.