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Dinar - al-Muqtadi
| Issuer | Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Year | 1075-1094 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له / المقتدي بأمر الله / أمير المؤمنين |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Al-Muqtadi ruled as Caliph from 1075 to 1094, a period during which the Abbasid caliphs held almost no real political power — the Seljuk sultans effectively governed the empire while the Caliph retained a ceremonial religious function. The dinars struck in his name reflect this arrangement directly: Seljuk authority appears on the coin alongside the Caliph's, a numismatic record of a divided sovereignty that textual sources sometimes obscure. Al-Muqtadi did, however, reassert limited temporal influence late in his reign, capitalizing on internal Seljuk fractures following the death of Malik Shah in 1092.