An Exceptional Nîzâri Ismâ‘îlî Coinage at Bâniyâs

Abstract

Attempts of the Nîzâri Ismâ‘îlî sect to seize political power in Syria through terror and the
unsuccessful Frankish attempts to capture Damascus made Bâniyâs a focus of events
during the twelfth century. The short episode of Bâniyâs under the control of this sect is
marked by an unusual black dirham.