Dirham - Dila'i Interregnum

The Dila'iyya were a Sufi brotherhood — a zawiya centered in the Middle Atlas — who exploited the collapse of Sa'adian authority to govern much of Morocco through the 1640s and 1650s. Their coinage is among the few tangible administrative artifacts of a regime that controlled Fez, held off the Ottomans to the east, and repelled early 'Alawi pressure from the south before finally collapsing in 1668. The brotherhood had no dynastic tradition of minting; producing silver dirhams was an assertion of sovereignty they had not previously claimed.

Album's A582 attribution acknowledges the type's rarity and contested chronology — surviving specimens are few enough that precise die studies remain incomplete.