Iraq after the Muslim Conquest - Michael G. Morony

Fig. 2. Arab-Sasanian and Post-Reform Coins and Sasanian Administrative Seals.

a. Ziyad ibn Ab) Sufyan, year 55

obv. ZIYAT I-ABU SUFAN;

AFZUTU GDH; bismillah; rab)

rev. BJRA; PNJPNJA

b. al-l:Iajjaj ibn Yiisuf, year 80

obv. HAJAJ [YU]SF[ANl;

AFZUTU GDH; bismillah; rab)

rev. BIS; HSTAT

c. Post-reform dirham, Kufa,
year 79 (A.D. 698-99)

obv.
Field: Allah a~ad Allah a~-~amad
lam yalid wa lam yulad wa lam
yakun lahu kufuwan a~adun.
(God is One, God is Eternal. He
does not beget nor is he begotten
and there is none equal to Him.)
Qur'an, 112.
Margin: Mu~ammad rasUl Allah ar-
salahu bi-l-huda wa d,n il-~aqq li-
yu:{:hirahu 'ala-d-dln kullihi wa
law kariha-l-mushrikun. (Mu~am­
mad is the messenger of God
whom He sent with guidance and
the religion of truth in order to
make it victorious over all religion
even though the polytheists detest
[it].) The first four words para-
phrase Qur'an 9:33; the rest
quote it.

rev.

Field: la llah ilia llah wa~dahu la

sharlkun lahu. (There is only one

single God. He has no parmer.)

This is not a Qur'anic quotation,

but these terms occur together in

Qur'an 9:31.

Margin: bismillah r,laraba hadha dir-

ham bi-l-Kufati fi sanati tis'a wa

sab'ln. (In the name of God, this

dirham was struck in Kufa in year

seventy-nine.