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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3691502, member: 84744"]Fantastic post, VK, most deserving of featured status!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a father-son combo:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]989337[/ATTACH] </p><p>'Abd al-Rahman III (912-961)</p><p>My notes: "Previous Umayyad rulers in al-Andalus styled themselves as "Emir", indicating at they were at least nominally subject to a higher authority, namely the Abbasid Caliph. 'Abd al-Rahman III, however, felt he was sufficiently powerful and secure that he declared himself Caliph, with the Caliphate based in his capital city of Córdoba. The city also became the intellectual capital of western Europe."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]989338[/ATTACH]</p><p>al-Hakam II (961-976 / AH 350-366), dated AH 356 (966-967), mint: Medina Azahara </p><p>My notes: "al-Hakam II, the second Caliph of Córdoba, was an excellent scholar, which is neat but not too out of the ordinary. What makes this guy particularly amazing as an Islamic caliph is that he was also openly gay, and employed a female mathematician as his personal secretary! This coin was minted in 356 AH in Medina Azahara (on the outskirts of Córdoba), the "Versailles of the Middle Ages" that al-Hakam's father created as the capitol of his new Caliphate."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3691502, member: 84744"]Fantastic post, VK, most deserving of featured status! I have a father-son combo: [ATTACH=full]989337[/ATTACH] 'Abd al-Rahman III (912-961) My notes: "Previous Umayyad rulers in al-Andalus styled themselves as "Emir", indicating at they were at least nominally subject to a higher authority, namely the Abbasid Caliph. 'Abd al-Rahman III, however, felt he was sufficiently powerful and secure that he declared himself Caliph, with the Caliphate based in his capital city of Córdoba. The city also became the intellectual capital of western Europe." [ATTACH=full]989338[/ATTACH] al-Hakam II (961-976 / AH 350-366), dated AH 356 (966-967), mint: Medina Azahara My notes: "al-Hakam II, the second Caliph of Córdoba, was an excellent scholar, which is neat but not too out of the ordinary. What makes this guy particularly amazing as an Islamic caliph is that he was also openly gay, and employed a female mathematician as his personal secretary! This coin was minted in 356 AH in Medina Azahara (on the outskirts of Córdoba), the "Versailles of the Middle Ages" that al-Hakam's father created as the capitol of his new Caliphate."[/QUOTE]
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