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ABBASID OF YEMEN: Ibrahim b. Musa, 815-816, AR local dirham (0.97g), Madinat San'a, AH200, VF

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ABBASID OF YEMEN: Ibrahim b. Musa, 815-816, AR local dirham (0.97g), Madinat San'a, AH200, VF
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ABBASID OF YEMEN: Ibrahim b. Musa, 815-816, AR local dirham (0.97g), Madinat San'a, AH200, A-A1051, Zeno-259732 (= SICA 10:218), the ruler is cited on his dirhams as Ibrahim b. Rasul Allah, i.e., as "son of the messenger of God," i.e., of the Prophet Muhammad, with the phrase ja' / al-haqq ("the truth has come"), the first two words of the Qur'an verse 17:81; probably the 2nd known specimen and the only example in private hands (the Zeno specimen is in the Ashmolean Museum); pierced and plugged, VF, RRRR. This example shows that the reverse marginal legend is not as suggested, but a different quotation from the Qur'an. Ibrahim was the son of the 7th Shi'ite Imam, thus related to the Imams recognized as the Isma'ili Imams by the Fatimids. Ibrahim was forced out of Yemen by the Abbasid army in late AH201, but was able to seize control of Makka around the middle of 202. Since the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun was attempting to form a sort of unification between Sunni and Shi'ite Islam, he agreed to maintain Ibrahim as governor of Makka, which he served for another two or three years. He was recalled to Baghdad and a Sunni official assigned the governorship of Makka, in late 204 or 205. Ibrahim remained in Baghdad until his death sometime after 209.