The development of Islamic coinage in Andalusia: from the era of the conquest until the fall of Granada (92-897 AH / 710-1491 AD)

Abstract

        The research deals with the movement of minting money in Andalusia from the Muslim conquest of it in the year(92 Ah/711 AD) to the end of the Islamic presence there with the fall of the kingdom of Granada(897 Ah/1492 ad), the Muslim conquerors moved their financial system there along with their religion and their administrative and economic system after the cities of Andalusia began to fall one after another by the hand of the conquerors and the decline and Ghouta as a clear message of the connection of this liberated part of Spain with the Islamic caliphate in the Levant, and we note that the minting of money there is an integral part of the Islamic existence and a feature of every era and era passed It became an independent administration from the Islamic Orient in terms of the quantity, value, weight and type of dinars and dirhams struck, it took on political, economic and religious dimensions that emphasize its independence from the rest of the Islamic countries used in internal and external trade exchange, it differed from one era and stage to another on this approach until the fall of the kingdom of Granada. After the conquest of Andalusia in 92 AH/711 CE, the early Muslims in Andalusia initially used the Roman (Vestic) currency, the Roman sulli, before minting their own. They maintained the use of Latin coins bearing Christian inscriptions, symbols, and designs, in accordance with the policy of tolerance that Muslims adopted towards the inhabitants of the lands they conquered. This is confirmed by the collection of coins minted during the reign of Musa ibn Nusayr.