The Tatars take Mosul by ruse, 660

أخذ التتار الموصل بالخديعة سنة 660هـ

c. August 1262 CE · c. Ramadan 660 AH

Mosul

In early Ramadan 660 the Tatars took Mosul by ruse after a siege of months — calmed the people, razed the wall, then loosed the sword nine days; its lord al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il, Badr al-Din Lu'lu's son, they kept alive days, then killed him and his son Ala al-Din 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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In early Ramadan 660 AH the Tatars took Mosul by trickery after a siege of several months. They reassured the people, broke down the wall, and then gave the city to the sword for nine days. They spared its ruler, al-Malik al-Salih Ismaʿil, son of Badr al-Din Lulu, for a few days, then killed him, and killed his son ʿAlaʾ al-Din, the king. With this the house of Lulu ended in Mosul after about forty years 2.

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al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il b. Lu'lu'
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al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il b. Lu'lu'· Mosul· Great Mosque of al-Nuri· Battle of al-Khazir· Conquest of Mosul· death of the atabeg Izz al-Din Masud of Mosul· Death of Nur al-Din Arslan Shah of Mosul· death of Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd — Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī II succeeds in Mosul

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 308
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p.308
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al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il b. Lu'lu'

Lord of Mosul after Badr al-Din Lu'lu' — the same prince his father had sent with his contingent to Hulagu's Baghdad campaign in 655; when the Tatars took Mosul by ruse in 660 they spared him days, then killed him and his son Ala al-Din.