Mahmud of Hasankeyf

Coinage of Nasir al-Din Mahmud (1200–1222) Amid mint. Dated AH 617 (1220-1 CE).
Obv: Double-headed eagle with wings displayed, all within floral quadrilobe, name and titles of Nasir al-Din Mahmud within petals of quadrilobe, continuation of name in outer margin.
Rev: Name and title of Ayyubid overlord in two lines; all within hexagram; mint formula and AH date in angles of hexagram; name and titles of Abbasid caliph in outer margins.

Nāṣir al-Dīn Maḥmūd (ruled 1201–1222) was a ruler of the Hasankeyf of the Artuqid dynasty. He was a son of Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad (1174–1185).

He is particularly known to have commisionned an edition of the Al-Jāmi‘ fī ṣinā‘at al-ḥiyal of Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, devoted to the depiction of mechanical devices in 1206 Amid (modern-day Diyarbakır), in modern Turkey. The miniatures are thought to reflect various aspects of the Artuqid court at the time.

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  Court scene. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).
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  Ruler (court scene detail). Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).
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  Turkic figure. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).
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  Female servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).
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  Turkic figure. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).

Sources

• Whelan, Estelle (1988), "Representations of the Khassakiyah and the Origins of Mamluk Emblems", in Soucek, Priscilla (ed.), Content and Context of Visual Arts in the Islamic World, University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press