Najm al-Din Ghazi I ruled Mardin from 637 to 658 AH during one of the most turbulent stretches of Anatolian history — his reign overlapped directly with the Mongol invasions that destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258. The Artuqid rulers of Mardin navigated this catastrophe by submitting to Ilkhanid suzerainty, a calculated survival that kept the dynasty intact while Baghdad burned.
Artuqid copper fals of this period are notorious for inconsistent fabric, and weights across the series scatter widely around the nominal.
Najm al-Din Ghazi I ruled Mardin from 637 to 658 AH during one of the most turbulent stretches of Anatolian history — his reign overlapped directly with the Mongol invasions that destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258. The Artuqid rulers of Mardin navigated this catastrophe by submitting to Ilkhanid suzerainty, a calculated survival that kept the dynasty intact while Baghdad burned.
Artuqid copper fals of this period are notorious for inconsistent fabric, and weights across the series scatter widely around the nominal.