Nasir ad-Din Mahmud

This article is about the Zengid emir of Mosul. For other uses, see Nasiruddin Mahmud.

Nasir al-Din Mahmud
Emir of Mosul
Coin of Mahmud II, mint of Mossul, depicting a female with two winged victories, 1223.
Rule	1219 – 1234
Predecessor	Nur al-Din Arslan Shah II
Successor	Badr al-Din Lu'lu' (as Mamluk emir of Mosul)
Born	1216
Died	1234
House	Zengid
Religion	Sunni Islam

Nasir al-Din Mahmud, born in 1216, was the Zengid hereditary Emir of Mosul from 1219 to 1234 (died 18 years old). He was successor to his brother Nur al-Din Arslan Shah II, and was only three years old when he ascended the throne. He was the last Zengid ruler of Mosul, and remained under the control of the atabeg of Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu'. Badr al-Din Lu'lu' may have assassinated the young ruler 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.

Nasir al-Din Mahmud. AH 616-631 (1219-1234 CE) al-Mawsil mint. Dated AH 627 (1231-2 CE). Obverse: Crowned Turkic figure, holding crescent-circle, seated facing between two stars; mint formula and AH date around. Reverse: Kalima and name and titles of Abbasid caliph in five lines; name and titles of Nasir al-Din Mahmud in outer margin.

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/43377738 [1]

See also

• Zengid dynasty