Qirat - 'Ali b. Yusuf

Ali ibn Yusuf ruled the Almoravid empire at its territorial peak, presiding over al-Andalus and the Maghreb simultaneously — a logistical and monetary challenge his father Yusuf ibn Tashfin had only begun to solve. The qirat denomination itself reflects the fractional silver needs of a commercial economy increasingly integrated with Mediterranean trading networks, where small change mattered as much as the gold dinar in daily exchange.

Almoravid silver of this type is frequently found with irregular flans, a consequence of hand-cut blank preparation rather than any systematic minting failure.