Mehdy Shaddel

The Riddle of Ibn al-Zubayr’s Earliest Coinage, 681–683 CE

Coins bearing the name of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr and dating to the reign of the Umayyad caliph Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya (r. 60-64 AH/680-684 CE) have been known for a long time, but scholars have either dismissed them as anachronistic dates resulting from the use of old reverse dies...