Nasir al-Din Mahmud (or Mahmud II) was the
Zengid
The Zengid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Oghuz Turkic origin, which ruled parts of the Levant and Upper Mesopotamia on behalf of the Seljuk Empire and eventually seized control of Egypt in 1169. In 1174 the Zengid state extended from Tripoli ...
Emir of Mosul
This is a list of the rulers of the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Umayyad governors
* Muhammad ibn Marwan (ca. 685–705)
* Yusuf ibn Yahya ibn al-Hakam (ca. 685–705)
* Sa'id ibn Abd al-Malik (ca. 685–705)
* Yahya ibn Yahya al-Ghassani (719–720)
* ...
1219–1234. He was successor of
Nur al-Din Arslan Shah II
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* An-Nur, one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "The Light".
* Nūr (Islam), a concept, literally meaning "light"
* An-Nur (The Light), the 24th chapter of the Qur'an
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and was the last Zengid ruler of Mosul. Contemporary historians state that he was killed by the
atabeg of Mosul,
Badr al-Din Lu'lu'
Badr al-Din Lu'lu' ( ar, بَدْر الدِّين لُؤْلُؤ) (died 1259) (the name Lu'Lu' means 'The Pearl', indicative of his servile origins) was successor to the Zengid emirs of Mosul, where he governed in variety of capacities from 1234 ...
, following the death of his maternal grandfather the Emir of
Erbil,
Muzaffar al-Din Gökböri. Lu'lu' then began to rule Mosul in his own right.
[Patton, pp.152-155]
Citations
Bibliography
*Patton, D. (1988) ''Ibn al-Sāʿi's Account of the Last of the Zangids'', ''Zeitschrift der Deutschen, Morgenländischen Gesellschaft'', Vol. 138, No. 1, pp. 148-158, Harrassowitz Verlag Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4337773
See also
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Zengid dynasty
The Zengid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Oghuz Turkic origin, which ruled parts of the Levant and Upper Mesopotamia on behalf of the Seljuk Empire and eventually seized control of Egypt in 1169. In 1174 the Zengid state extended from Tripol ...
1234 deaths
Zengid emirs of Mosul
Year of birth unknown
13th-century monarchs in the Middle East
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