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ISLAMIC, Syria & al-Jazira (Pre-Seljuq). Hamdanids. Nasir al-Dawla (Abu Muhammad al-Hasan) and Sayf al-Dawla (Abu'l Hasan 'Ali), conjointly, AH 330-356 / AD 942-967. Dirham (Silver, 28 mm, 2.67 g, 7 h), a donative issue citing Nasir al-Dawla Abu Muhammad and his brother Sayf al-Dawla Abu Hasan. Khasanat al-Shamiya min Halab ('The al-Shamiya Treasury of Halab), AH 351 = AD 962/3. Album p. 99. Extremely rare and unpublished with this date. About extremely fine.
From the Tabib Collection, formed over the past 40 years.
The term 'Al-Shamiya' is closely related to Bilad al'-Sham, a political and geographical term often translated as 'the land to the left hand' (for someone being in Mekka and looking toward the east). Bilad al'-Sham thus describes the Levant, which the rightly guided caliphs had conquered during the first decades after the death of the Prophet.
From the Tabib Collection, formed over the past 40 years.
The term 'Al-Shamiya' is closely related to Bilad al'-Sham, a political and geographical term often translated as 'the land to the left hand' (for someone being in Mekka and looking toward the east). Bilad al'-Sham thus describes the Levant, which the rightly guided caliphs had conquered during the first decades after the death of the Prophet.