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1 Dinar - Ali b. Muhammad Zabid, Citing Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir
| Issuer | Sulayhid dynasty |
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| Year | 1053 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The Sulayhids, who came to power in Yemen in the 1040s under Ali b. Muhammad al-Sulayhi, were committed Ismaili partisans — their recognition of the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir on coinage was a deliberate political alignment with Cairo against the Sunni Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad. This coin was struck within a decade of the dynasty's founding, when Ali al-Sulayhi was consolidating control over the Yemeni highlands through a combination of military force and Ismaili missionary networks.
Al-Mustansir's reign in Cairo lasted 60 years, the longest of any Fatimid caliph, and his name appears on Ismaili-aligned issues across a remarkably wide geographic arc.