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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3002716, member: 84744&quot;]Here&#039;s my heavily debased dinar of the same ruler near the end of his reign (AH 399 = 1008/9).&nbsp; You can see that the Buwayhid confederacy underwent a considerable decline in the interim!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]743266[/ATTACH]</p><p>Mint: Suq al-Ahwaz</p><p><br /></p><p>The Buwayhids/Buyids were a Persian (Iranian) Shi&#039;ite dynasty who took control of Iraq and Iran, leaving the Caliph in Baghdad in office as a powerless figurehead. To some extent they revived Sasanian traditions, with the greatest Buwayhid, Adud al-Dawla (949-983), even adopting the title Shâhanshâh.&nbsp; Along with the Saffarid, Samanid, and Hamdanid dynasties they constitute what is often called the &quot;Iranian Intermezzo,&quot; before these Persian dynasties were overthrown by Turkish groups like the Seljuqs in the west and the Ghaznavids in the east.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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