Dinar - Ali az-Zahir

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.