Luʾluʾ al-Yaya, also called al-Bābā[1] or al-Khādim ("the Eunuch"),[2] was the regent of the Seljuk sultanate of Aleppo from AD 1113 (AH 507) until his assassination in 1117 (510).
[3] According to Ibn al-Athīr, Luʾluʾ took charge of affairs in Aleppo after the death of Sultan Riḍwān in 1113, since his son, Alp Arslān al-Akhras, was only sixteen years old.
[4] In 1114, Alp Arslān was murdered in his own palace by his mamlūks at the instigation of Luʾluʾ because the young sultan had sought the help of Ṭughtakīn, ruler of Damascus, to establish his personal rule.
[5][6] Luʾluʾ then raised Alp Arslān's six-year-old brother, Sulṭān Shāh ibn Riḍwān, to the throne and continued to hold the regency.
He was also opposed by the family of Sāʿid ibn Badīʿ, raʾīs (leader) of the aḥdāth (militia), whom Alp Arslān had exiled to Qalʿat Jaʿbar.