Dinar - al-Muqtadi

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.