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631–60/1234–62
Mosul and Jazīra
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⊘ 631/1234 |
Lu’lu’ b. ‘Abdallāh, Abu ’1-Faḍā’il al-Malik al-Raḥim Badr al-Dīn, d. 657/1259 |
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⊘ 657–60/1259–62 |
Ismā‘īl b. Lu’lu’, al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Rukn al-Dīn, in Mosul and Sinjār, k. 660/1262 |
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657/1259 |
‘Alī b. Lu’lu’, al-Malik al-Muẓaffar ‘Alā’ al-Dīn, in Sinjār |
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657–60/1259–62 |
Isḥāq b. Lu’lu’, al-Malik al-Mujāhid Sayf al-Dīn, in Jazīrat Ibn ‘Umar |
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660/1262 |
Mongol conquest of Mosul and Jazīra |
Lu’lu’ was a freedman of the Zangids of Mosul (see above, no. 93), apparently of Armenian servile origin. Originally regent for the last Zangid prince there, he became officially recognised, with the approval of the ‘Abbāsid caliph, as ruler of the city in 631/1234. In the ensuing years, he extended his authority into Jazīra as Ayyūbid power there waned, but latterly was forced to flee the growing pressure of Mongol raids on Iraq. Lu’lu’ and the local Ayyūbid princes became tributary to the Mongols, and Lu’lu’’s later rule was increasingly subordinate to them, whose overlordship he explicitly acknowledged on his coins in 652/1254. He tried to pass on his power to his sons, dividing up his dominions between them, but when after his death the Il Khān Hülegü invaded as far as Syria (658/1260), Lu’lu’’s sons fled for asylum with the Mamlūks in Egypt, and Iraq and Jazīra now passed firmly under Mongol control.
Lane-Poole, 162–4; Sachau, 27 no. 72; Zambaur, 226; Album, 41.
EI2 ‘Lu’lu’, Badr al-Dīn’ (Cl. Cahen).
D. Patton, Badr al-Dīn Lu’lu’, Atabeg of Mosul, 1211–1259.