Abū Manṣūr al-Maʿmarī (flor. ca. 346/957), was the son of Muḥammad (or Aḥmad) b. ʿAbd Allāh and the minister (dastūr) of Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Razzāq, the commander-in-chief of Khurāsān and governor of Ṭūs during the reign of the Sāmānids.

Very little is known of his life; the information that has come down to the pres-ent day is based on the ‘Muqaddima-yi Shāhnāmah-yi Abū Manṣūrī’ or ‘Muqaddima-yi qadīm-i Shāhnāmah’. Abū Manṣūr is well known in the history of Persian literature due to his supervision of and participation in the collecting of the ‘Histor…