Dirham - al-Muttaqi

Al-Muttaqi's reign lasted barely four years before he was blinded and deposed by the Hamdanid amir Nasir al-Dawla in 944 — a brutal procedure performed to disqualify him from the caliphate under Islamic law. By this point the Abbasids had been effectively puppets of the Buyid and competing amirate factions for decades, and the caliph's name on the coinage was a political formality more than a mark of authority.

Dirhams attributable specifically to al-Muttaqi's reign are relatively scarce, the mint output reflecting the instability of the period rather than any single administrative decision.