Zubayda bint Ja `far Ben Al-Mansûr (??? - 832) is the little girl of the caliph Al-Mansour, and a cousin of Hârûn rear-Rachid. She married this one in 781.

She influenced her husband so that her son Al-Amîn is named heir although born some time after his/her half-brother Al-Ma' mun who was the son of a Persian slave. Hârûn rear-Rachid gave him win in 802.

She made do work to ensure the water provision of the pilgrims of Mecque and the installation of the road between the Iraq and Mecque. This road took the name of Darb Zubayda . She supported the writers, the poets and the doctors, even Christian. She came using the poor, of the students and the monks. She died in 841, a long time after her husband.

According to the ismaéliennes sources, it would have been converted with the Ismaélisme and practiced it in a secret way according to the doctrines known as of the dissimulation. It would have received the teaching of the Imam of Mohammed Ben Ismâ `it which explained the esoteric doctrines to him. She informed Mohammed Ben Ismâ `it measures taken by Hârûn rear-Rachid against the ismaéliens. It seems that she ceased her clandestine activity with dead of Mohammed Ben Ismâ `it (813).

Popular myth

Her husband and it are characters of the Thousand and One Nights. It is said that its palate bruissait as a hive because a hundred young girls learned Coran there.

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