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Badr ad-Dīn Luʾluʾ
Zangid ruler
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role in Zangid dynasty
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The rise to power of Badr al-Dīn Luʾluʾ, a former slave, as regent for the last Zangid, Nāṣir al-Dīn Maḥmūd (reigned 1219–22), marked the end of the dynasty. Luʾluʾ ruled Mosul as atabeg from 1222 to 1259; soon afterward the city fell to the Mongols.
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