Editing Musa ibn Nusayr (section)

{{short description|Arab military commander provincial governor (640-716)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Musa ibn Nusayr
| image               = 
| caption             = Musa governed [[Ifriqiya]]
| office              = [[Umayyad]] governor of [[Ifriqiya]]
| monarch             = [[Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan|Abd al Malik]]<br />[[Al-Walid I]]
| term                = 703–715
| predecessor         = [[Hassan ibn al-Nu'man]]
| successor           = Muhammad ibn Yazid
| birth_date          = {{circa}} 640
| birth_place         = [[Hebron]]
| death_date          = 716
| death_place         = [[Hejaz]]
| children            = {{plainlist|
*[[Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa]]
*Marwan ibn Musa
*Abd Allah ibn Musa
}}
| allegiance          = [[Umayyad Caliphate]]
| battles             = *[[Muslim conquest of the Maghreb]]
*[[Umayyad conquest of Hispania]]
| parents             = Nusayr
| relations           = [[Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn Musa ibn Nusayr]] (grandson)
}}
'''Musa ibn Nusayr''' ({{langx|ar|موسى بن نصير}} ''Mūsá bin Nuṣayr''; {{circa}} 640 – c. 716) was an [[Arab]] general and governor who served under the [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad caliph]] [[Al-Walid I]]. He ruled over the Muslim province of [[Ifriqiya]], and directed the [[Umayyad conquest of Hispania|Islamic conquest]] of the [[Visigothic Kingdom]] that controlled the [[Iberian Peninsula]] and part of what is now southern France ([[Septimania]]).