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Obituuries
Remembering a Doyenne
- flr
Shobhana Gokhale
Eminent historian
of
ancient
like
the
Maharashtra
Vidyapeeth and the Bhandarkar Oriental Research InsTitute.
Amaravati,
the Vidarbha region of
She \/as born
Maharashtra, ne Bapat. The great indologist, V V Mirash, was her
Guru for some time when she read for her degree in Sanskdt. After
in
the
Tilak
in
Gajalakshn coin
to
moved
coin
of Kochhiputa Satakani
proved important
the
a 'Junnar lion'
however,
"Commander
these
'Wattas
is
only name to appear is that of the Banu S/attas regent: ". ..alShaykh, the saint, the admirer, the pious, the fighter, Abu
Zakariyya Yahya ibn Zayyan...".
This title of "Commander of the Muslims" for 'Abd al-flaqq is
a recognition of the Hafsid caliph. TVe learn from history that in nu
827 (ao 1424), the Hafsid caliph, 'Abd al-'Aziz, took Tlemcen and
was about to enter Fasl8, He turned back once the Wattasid regent,
Abu Zakaiyya, had accepted his suzerainity. Later on, in e T437,
'Abd al-$aqq contirmed his submission to the Hafsidsl0e.
NUMISMATIC EVIDEI\CE OF A
MODIFICATION II\ THE POLITICS OF
THE, LAST MARII\ID RULER
By Ludovic Litard
Hafsid suzerainty.
1.2 Period of emancipation eru 863 -869 (e 1459 -1465)
In au 863 (ao 1459), 'Abd al-$aqq freed himself from the Banu
Wattas family and murdered almost all the members of this
familyll2 with the exception of two brothers who had organised
some resistance and contributed to the period of anarchy which
followed113.
1. Political cantext
l.l
103
Historr* (London
S." [4]
page 47A.
z}n) fi1141.
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References
[1] Aouni, Lhaj Moussa. Etude des inscriptions mrinides de Fas (Tome I:
texte), Thse de Doctorat, Universit de Provence. Aix-Marseille I
Oltverse:
(France), 1991
dJt
;^l
*io Jr.ll
The obverse can be translated as "'Abd al-flaqq / Commander I of
the Faithful".
l0l Vir,
T.4,
Fasc. 3,25-260.,
1957.
Rey,erse:
tl1l
Zarkashi, Muharnmad
al-
Mutv^ahidi1,11', wa-al-Hqfsil',Q1,
4lJ
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This reverse bears the first verse of the Qur'an which can
translated as "Praise be to God / Lord
be
Of the universe".
3. Conclusion
A new half dirham issued by the last Marinid ruler, 'Abd al-flaqq
II (au 823 - 869 / an ruza - 1465), has been described in this
article. This half dirham differs from the other already published
coins struck by 'Abd al-flaqq since it gives hirn the title of
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In 1957, this gravestone was kept in the "cole des Langues Orientales"
in I99l -
the
Moussa Aouni contacted this school to get some more intbrmation but no
reply was forthcoming (see a footnote page 251 in t1l).
I I7
Srekovi ( I 987), 65-66
Lhaj
18
WW
Copper biche for Mah, 1743 (KM 65)
ONS news
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Numismatic evidence of a modification in the politics of the last Marinid ruler, by L. Litard
17
A new obverse variety of Ottoman akches during the reign of Bayezid II, by A. Crivenco
18
Georgian-Byzantine type coins ofGiorgi II and Davit fV: new specimens, by L Paghava & R Spanderashvili
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