Nāṣir al-Dīn Maḥmūd (ruled 1201–1222) was a ruler of the
Hasankeyf
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Despite local and international objections, the city and its archaeological sites ...
of the
Artuqid dynasty
The Artuqid dynasty (alternatively Artukid, Ortoqid, or Ortokid; Old Anatolian Turkish: , , pl. ; ; ) was established in 1102 as a Turkish Anatolian Beylik (Principality) of the Seljuk Empire. It formed a Turkoman dynasty rooted in the Oghuz ...
. He was a son of
Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad (1174–1185).
He is particularly known to have commissioned an edition of the ''Al-Jāmi‘ fī ṣinā‘at al-ḥiyal'' of
Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari
Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī (1136–1206, , ) was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan and artist from the Artuqid Dynasty of Jazira in Mesopotamia. He is best known for ...
, devoted to the depiction of mechanical devices in 1206 Amid (modern-day
Diyarbakır
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Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, it is ...
), in modern Turkey.
The miniatures are thought to reflect various aspects of the Artuqid court at the time.
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13th-century Artuqid rulers
1222 deaths
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