Nasir ad-Din Mahmud

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.

[1] He was the last Zengid ruler of Mosul, and remained under the control of the atabeg of Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu'.

[1] 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.

[2] This biography of a member of a Middle Eastern royal house is a stub.

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. [ 3 ]