One of the finest pieces of Islamic art that we can see on the web site of Baghdad Museum is a minbar in mulberry wood, dated from 1153, and which was ordered by a governor of Amadiyya, Qaraja (a Turkish commander) which was probably nominated by Atabeg Zengi after he seized the castle and expelled Hakkari Kurds in 1141.
Previously the name of the city was Ashib, or Jelab, or Kalaat Bibaka according to syriac sources. Zengi gave it the name of his laqab (title) Imad al Din = 'Imadiyya.
From the same mosque there 2 wooden doors in the museum, which were made 100 years later.
http://www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it/homeENG.htm
The extreme right door leads to Islamic Art room. Then the second minbar from the right wrongly called Al-Ahmadiya is the good one.
The mosque from which were this minbar does not exist anymore. The current one was built in 13th century by another Atabeg of Mosul, Badr ad Din' Lu'lu ' s son. Badr ad Din Lu'lu was of uncertain origine, perhaps Armenian or Christian, perhaps African (Lu'lu means pearl and such nicknames, Lu'lu, Kafur) were commonly given to Black slaves).
