Nur al-Din Arslan Shah II

Coinage of Nur al-Din Arslan Shah II (ruled 1218-1219 CE). al-Mawsil (Mosul) mint. Dated AH 616 (1219/1220 CE).[1]

Nur al-Din Arslan Shah II (r.1218-1219) was the son and successor of Izz al-Din Mas'ud II, as Zengid dynasty ruler of the Mosul region in modern Iraq. He was under the control of a regent or atabeg, in the person of the mamluk, Badr al-Dīn Lū'lū'.[2][3]

  1. ^ Album 1868 RR (’dated 615 only’).
  2. ^ Patton, Douglas (1991). "Badr al-Dīn Lu'lu' and the Establishment of a mamluk Government in Mosul". Studia Islamica (74): 81. doi:10.2307/1595898. ISSN 0585-5292.
  3. ^ Rice, D. S. (1953). "The Aghānī Miniatures and Religious Painting in Islam". The Burlington Magazine. 95 (601): 130. ISSN 0007-6287.