Farajallah Ahmad Yusuf

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فرج الله أحمد يوسف

Scholar of Islamic archaeology and numismatics who earned his doctorate at Cairo University's Faculty of Archaeology in 1418/1997 with a thesis on Qur'anic verses on Islamic coins, published in Riyadh in 2003 1.

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Farajallah Ahmad Yusuf is a scholar of Islamic archaeology and numismatics who submitted a doctoral thesis to the Department of Islamic Archaeology of Cairo University's Faculty of Archaeology in 1418/1997, supervised by Hasan al-Basha and Ra'fat al-Nabarawi; the King Faisal Center in Riyadh published it as "Qur'anic Verses on Islamic Coins". 2 1

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He relied on libraries including the King Abdulaziz Foundation and King Abdulaziz Public Library in Riyadh, the Museum of Islamic Art library and Dar al-Kutub in Cairo, and the American Numismatic Society library in New York, and signed his preface in Riyadh on 19 Rajab 1422 (6 October 2001). 3

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Qur'anic Verses on Islamic Coins: A Comparative Study

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Qur'anic inscriptions on Islamic coins· Qur'anic Verses on Islamic Coins: A Comparative Study· Al-Madina Souq, Aleppo· Bazaar of Tabriz· Khan el-Khalili· Al-Hamidiyah Souq· Souq Waqif· Ajr al-mithl (customary wage)

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  1. Farajallah Ahmad Yusuf, al-Ayat al-qur'aniyya ala al-maskukat al-islamiyya: dirasa muqarana (Riyadh: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, 1423/2003) , p. 15
  2. Farajallah Ahmad Yusuf, al-Ayat al-qur'aniyya ala al-maskukat al-islamiyya: dirasa muqarana (Riyadh: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, 1423/2003) , p. 1
  3. Farajallah Ahmad Yusuf, al-Ayat al-qur'aniyya ala al-maskukat al-islamiyya: dirasa muqarana (Riyadh: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, 1423/2003) , p. 16
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Qur'anic inscriptions on Islamic coins

The inscription of Qur'anic verses on dinars, dirhams and fulus, begun by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in 77 AH with Surat al-Ikhlas and al-Tawba 33 and later used by dynasties and rebels to express their political and sectarian aims, as Farajallah Ahmad Yusuf shows.