Badr al-Din Lu'lu' (Arabic: بَدْر الدِّين لُؤْلُؤ) (c. 1178-1259) (the name Lu'Lu' means 'The Pearl', indicative of his servile origins) was successor...

al-Din Lu'lu') Nasir ad-Din Mahmud, son of Izz al-Din Mas'ud II, 1219–1234 (regency by Badr al-Din Lu'lu') Mosul was taken over by Badr al-Din Lu'lu',...

appointed by the Ayyubids to this position in 1193. One of his slaves was Badr ad-Din Lu'lu', who became a famous ruler of Mosul, and a prominent patron of the...

alliance with al-Muazzam of Damascus as a counterbalance to the threats of al-Malik al-Ashraf and Badr al-Din Lu'lu'. Badr al-Din Lu'lu' was appointed...

about 80 years old, Badr al-Din Lu'lu' went in person to Meraga to offer his submission to the Mongol invader Hulagu. Badr al-Din helped the Khan in his...

Aleppo Mansur ibn Lu'lu', emir of Aleppo (1008–1016), son of prec. Lu'lu' al-Yaya (died 1117), atabeg of Aleppo Badr al-Din Lu'lu', ruler of Mosul (1211–1259)...

Mosul located on the west bank of the Tigris River. It was built by Badr al-Din Lu’lu (died 1259), mamluk emir of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled what is...

Bangladeshi politician Badr al-Din Lu'lu' (died 1259), successor to the Zangid rulers of Mosul Badreddine Missaoui, Tunisian politician Badr al-Din Solamish (1272–1291)...

landscape and formed an alliance with Badr al-Din Lu'lu', the ruler of Mosul. After Mahmud's death, Badr al-Din Lu'lu' appears to have had his son killed...

1257 to marry the daughter of Badr al-Din Lu'lu' the Ayyubid Emir of al-Mosul. Badr al-Din Lu'lu' warned Aybak that Shajar al-Durr was in contact with an-Nasir...

executed and the tomb of Sheikh Adi was desecrated. This was ordered by Badr al-Din Lu’lu’, the Kurdish ruler of Mosul at the time. The massacre happened during...

century. It became a mausoleum after refurbishment by the Zangid ruler Badr al-Din Lu'lu'. He turned one of the rooms into a shrine and mausoleum of Imam Muhsin...

the Middle Ages. It appears prominently in the miniatures depicting Badr al-Din Lu'lu' (ruled 1234–1259). It was a stiff cap of the military class, with...

sent Badr al-Badr (a high-ranking religious figure) to mediate between the two sides. Saladin arrived at the city on 10 November 1182. Izz ad-Din would...

well. The son and successor of the Turkic Zengid ruler Badr al-Din Lu'lu', named Isma'il ibn Lu'lu' (1259–1262), continued in his father's steps and also...

courtly paintings are quite similar to those of the court of Badr al-Din Lu'lu' in the Kitab al-Aghani (1218–1219), and may be related to this ruler. The...

this day. Qara Saray (Black Palace): Built in the 13th century by Badr al-Din Lu'lu. Damaged during the Mongol invasions via burning. Tomb of the Girl:...

trusted mamluks, Badr al-Dīn Lū'lū'. Throughout his reign, effective power was held by Badr al-Dīn Lū'lū'. He had two young sons Nur al-Din Arslan Shah II...

use was with early Seljuk Turks who bestowed it on the Persian vizier Nizam al-Mulk. It was later used in the Kingdom of Georgia, first within the Armeno-Georgian...

city of Mosul, Iraq. The mosque was commissioned by the Zangid ruler Badr al-Din Lu'lu' in 1259 CE. The building has been restored several times, the last...

was built in 1248 by the Atabeg of Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu. It was built over the tomb of Imam Awn al-Din, the son of the Prophet's companion, and second...

and may be one of the Atabegs who ruled in the region, particularly Badr al-Din Lu'lu', who ruled in the Mosul region and Upper Mesopotamia with the approval...

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...

him with Gökböri. In the end, both al-Ashraf and Badr al-Din Lu'lu', ruler of Mosul, succumbed to al-Mu'azzam, but not before Jalal had invested himself...

son of Badr al-Din Lu'lu', in Mosul and Sinjar, 1259–1262 Al-Muzaffar 'Ala' al-Din 'Ali, son of Badr al-Din Lu'lu', in Sinjar, 1259 Sayf al-Din Ishāq,...

of his vassal Al-Afdal, an exiled Ayyubid. He was defeated by Al-Ashraf. Kaykaus was working to create an alliance with Badr al-Din Lu'lu', Emir of Mosul...

Irbil, and crossing the Tigris at Mosul with the help of its emir Badr al-Din Lu'lu', who also provided supplies, headed southwards towards Baghdad. Baiju...

Arabic inscription recording its manufacture for the ruler of Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu', Iraq, c. 1233 – 1259 AD The Department of Prints and Drawings holds...

crackdown on the community, and under the order of the Atabeg of Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu', Şêx Hesen and two hundred of his followers were executed. The execution...

well-known pieces of metalwork from Mosul, it was likely commissioned for Badr al-Din Lu'lu', who was already the de facto ruler of Mosul when the ewer was made...