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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gary Waddingham, post: 4458358, member: 73648&quot;]For my birthday I bought this nice coin. The first Muslims who ruled in Spain were the descendants of the Umayyads who escaped the slaughter of the Umayyad royalty at the hands of the first Abbasid Caliph. The Abbasid founder invited all of the Umayyads he could to a sumptuous feast at which assassins came out and killed them all. In as much as they were royalty they could not be stabbed but were rolled up in rugs and smothered by the assassins who sat on top of the rugs finishing what was said to be a fantastic meal. Those Umayyads who escaped went to North Africa and Spain. The Almohads were a more fundamentalist group of berbers (North African natives such as St. Augustine) who were more strict than the Umayyads. The coin has exactly the inscriptions you would expect to find on a coin by the Almohads and to me is an absolutely quintessential Muslim inscription. Even if you don&#039;t read Arabic, see if you can find &quot;Allah.&quot; It is the last word of the first line on the obverse (left picture) and the first word of the first line on the reverse (right picture). Remember, all semitic inscriptions go right to left.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a nice series of fiction written about this time period with Templars, Spanish and both kinds of Muslims written by S. J. A. Turney.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Muwahhids (Almohads), anonymous, c. AH 550&#039;s-658/ AD 1160&#039;s-1269+, square AR dirham (14x14mm, 1.55gm, 12h), Fez (Fas) mint, undated. O: la ilah illa Allah / al-amr kolluhu li-&#039;llah / la quwat illa billah (&quot;There is no god but Allah. All power belongs to Allah. There is no strength except in Allah&quot;); at lower left, mint name Fas. R: Allah rabbuna / Muhammad rassuluna / al-Mahdi imamuna (&quot;Allah is our Lord. Muhammad is our Prophet. The Mahdi is our imam&quot;). Hazard 1096; Hohertz 48; Album 497.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111668[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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