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Article: Al-Amin's designated successor: the limitations of numismatic evidence.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Until recently, relatively little has been written on the relationship between numismatic inscriptions and Abbasid imperial policies.(1) The case I will analyze is a dirham minted in Damascus with the Muslim date 194 and inscribed with the laqab "al-Natiq bi-l-Haqq," referring to Musa, the young son of the Abbasid caliph al-Amin (A.H. 193-98). After an analysis of the general inscription on the coin, the political background to the issuing of the coin will be presented. The last section will return to the numismatic evidence and its relationship to the political events. Considering the importance of the issue of succession in early Abbasid history, this particular case will ...
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