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Craftsmen and coins: signed dies in the Iranian world (third to the fifth centuries AH)

Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 423. Band

Craftsmen and coins: signed dies in the Iranian world (third to the fifth centuries AH)

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-6959-8
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-7162-1
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Preliminaries

1

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Acknowledgements

5

Table of Contents

7

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Introduction

8

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Signed dies in the Iranian world and beyond

12

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Dirham die production in the caliphal period

19

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The coinage of the Iranian successor states

26

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The first die signer: mujīb in northern afghanistan (293/905–302/914)

37

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Al-Ḥārith (also known as mujīb)’s career in nīshāpūr (313/295–339/950)

53

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Al-Ḥasan b. muḥammad: the early years in the Jibāl region of northern Iran (335/946–352/963)

66

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Al-Ḥasan b. muḥammad: the later years in the Jibāl, Ṭabaristān and arrajān (352/963 to the mid-360s)

72

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Muḥammad: die-engraver in kākwayhid Iṣfahān (413/1022–421/1030)

85

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Conclusions: from mass production to local craft

90

Bibliography

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Estimates of annual die usage in selected sāmānid and būyid mints

101

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Provenance of illustrated coins

117

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Umayyad dirhams (plates 1–2); ʿabbasid dirhams (plate 3)

121