Decoding DA’ISH
An Analysis of Poetic Exemplars and Discursive Strategies of Domination in the Jihadist Milieu
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…culture. In addition to the coins which explicitly allude to the Islamic tradition, there are also coins that have an Iraqi-Syrian local character. According to DĀʿISH, these coins depict “an image of seven…
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…The five-dinar coin visualizes a map of the globe that outlines the territory belonging to the self-proclaimed umma, including Constantinople, Rome, and America. The copper ten-fils coin portrays the Muslim…
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…piety, justice, military prowess, and the knowledge of the Qurʾan. In modern scholarship, Islamic coins had also served as a source of reconstructing history, especially when other primary sources were…
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…minting of coins tended to emphasize the religious and political character of the Islamic caliphate. Hugh Kennedy argues that the currency was witness to the caliph’s authority. The ability to mint coins and…
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…appearance, its engraving, or its description define whether a coin is good or bad. Only an assayer may recognize and distinguish real coins from ones made of fake silver (bahraj), forged (zāʾif), coated…