Badr al-Din Lu'lu'
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Badr al-Din Lu'lu' was successor to the Zengid emirs of Mosul, where he governed in variety of capacities from 1234 to 1259 following the death of Nasir ad-Din Mahmud. He was the founder of the short-
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Coinage of Badr al-Din Lu'lu', citing Möngke Khan (above reverse field) as overlord, instead of the Ayyubid ruler al-malik al-nasir. Mosul mint, dated AH 656 (1258).
An Ilkhanid miniature depicting the Mongol Siege of Mosul in 1261–1263 from: Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Jami' al-tawarikh, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (1430).
Mausoleum of Yahya Abu al-Qasim, built in Mosul by Lu'Lu' in 1239.
Al-Salih Isma'il ibn Lu'lu'
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Al-Salih Isma'il ibn Lu'lu' was the son of the ruler of Mosul Badr al-Din Lu'lu'. He succeeded his father and ruled Mosul for only three years before his city was lost to the Mongols in the Siege of M
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…Isma'il sided with the latter and revolted against the Mongols. Hulagu then besieged the city of Mosul for nine months, and utterly destroyed it in 1262. Al-Salih Isma'il ibn Lu'lu', the son of Badr al-Din Lu'lu, ruled Mosul for only three years (1259–1262) before his city was lost to the Mongols. Through Mongol intercession, he…
Al-Salih Isma'il participated to the Siege of Mayyafariqin. Chingizid Shâhnâma by Shams al-Dîn Kâshânî, 1423