The Mints (sikka , Arabic word meaning die) were the Mint Houses of the different Taifa kingdoms (Muslim kingdoms that emerged after the abolition of the Caliphate in 1031 and later with the collapse of the Almoravid and Alhomade empires). Each one of the Taifa kinglets minted their own currency as
The Japanese have a bad reputation for being copycats. Always appropriating other peoples ideas or inventions and then modifying and improving them on your own. But that sambenito is quite unfair. For example, if we say that in Japan they have an indigenous version of the Camino de Santiago, there w
Muslim society had a theocratic character, in that there was not the slightest separation between the religious and political spheres. In any case, during the stage of the independent Emirate of al-Andalus, he broke his ties with the caliphs of Baghdad in the political field , although they continue
Our archenemy today was a religious and patriotic man, a real nuisance to an increasingly Hellenistic Empire. His obstinacy and sedition provoked one of the bloodiest reprisals in history, also ordered by a character whom the passage of time has classified as more of a philosopher than a soldier. T