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Dinar - Ali az-Zahir
| Issuer | Fatimid Caliphate |
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| Year | 1021-1036 |
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| Reference(s) | KM# 104 |
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| Obverse lettering | محمد رسول الله علي ولي الله لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له محمد رسول الله ارسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Ali az-Zahir inherited the caliphate as a teenager following the disappearance of his father al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah in 1021 — an event never officially declared a death, which created immediate theological and political complications for the new reign. Al-Hakim's veneration by the nascent Druze movement meant Ali's government had to carefully manage a living cult around a predecessor who was, officially, simply absent. Gold dinars struck under Ali maintained the high fineness the Fatimid treasury had enforced since the reign of al-Mu'izz, when Cairo's mint displaced the older Maghrebi production centers entirely.