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Dirham - Zubaidah bint Ja'far Wife of al-Rashid
| Issuer | Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Year | 830-831 |
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| Weight | 2.95 g |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Zubaidah bint Ja'far was among the most powerful women of the Abbasid court — a granddaughter of al-Mansur who married her cousin Harun al-Rashid and wielded influence that extended well beyond the harem. Coins struck in her name are exceptional: Islamic minting convention almost never acknowledged women in monetary inscriptions, making this issue a pointed political statement about her status within the dynasty following al-Rashid's death in 809.
She is historically documented as having financed the construction of a water supply route for pilgrims along the Darb Zubaidah road to Mecca — a project of enormous logistical scale. The date of this dirham places it roughly two decades into her widowhood, during the reign of al-Ma'mun.