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Gold Ring with Abbasid Gold Coin - FJ.7120
Origin: Jericho, Palestine
Circa: 749
AD
to 1258
AD
Collection: Jewelry
Medium: Gold
£4,300.00
Location: UAE
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The Abbasid Dynasty was an Arab family
legendarily descended from Abbas, the uncle
of
Muhammad. The Abbasids held the
caliphate
from 749 to 1258. Under the Umayyad
caliphs,
the Abbasids lived quietly until they became
involved in numerous disputes, beginning
early
in the 8th Century. The family then joined
with
the Shiite faction in opposing the Umayyads,
and
in 747 the gifted Abu Muslim united most of
the
empire in revolt against the Umayyads. The
head
of the Abbasid family became caliph as Abu
al-
Abbas as-Saffah late in 749. Under the
second
Abbasid caliph, called al-Mansur, the capital
was
moved from Damascus to Baghdad, and
Persian
influence grew strong in the empire. The
early
years of Abbasid rule were a veritable golden
age, rising to true splendor under Harun al-
Rashid and to intellectual brilliance under his
son
al-Mamun. After less than a hundred years
of
rule, however, the slow decline of the
Abbasids
began. Long periods of disorder were
marked by
assassinations, depositions, control by
Turkish
soldiers, and other disturbances. In 836, the
capital was transferred to Samarra,
remaining
there until 892. Under the later Abbasids, the
power of the caliphate became chiefly
spiritual.
Many independent kingdoms sprang up, and
the
empire split into autonomous units. The
Seljuk
Turks came to hold the real power at
Baghdad.
Later their power dwindled even further, and,
in
1258, Baghdad was burned by the Tatars.
From
then until 1517 the Abbasids retained limited
power as caliphs of Egypt.
The gold of the ring and the gold of the coin
both complement each other. Together, the
two
hues merge into a lustrous splendor of
precious
metal. The sides of the ring have been
engraved
with a decorative stylized palmette pattern
that
echoes the intricate molding of the ring and
the
sinuous lines of the cufic text. To wear this
ring
is to reconnect with the brilliance of the early
Abbasid Dynasty in all its glory.
- (FJ.7120)
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