Islamic Coins and their Catalogues III: The Ikhshidids

Abstract

Jere Bacharach’s book is a first attempt to provide a corpus of all known coins of the Ikhshidids,
who ruled Egypt more or less independently of the ‘Abbasids of Baghdad between c. 935 and
969 CE, when it was taken over by the Fatimids. The inscriptions on these coins, struck at a
number of mints, are a valuable guide especially to the changes in the relationship between
these rulers and their nominal overlords in Baghdad. The corpus is described and, with the
addition of a table, used to demonstrate the thinness of our numismatic knowledge of this
dynasty.