ISLAMIC, al-Maghreb (North Africa). Almoravids (al-Murabitun). 'Ali ibn Yusuf, AH 500-537 / AD 1107-1142. Dinar (Gold, 26 mm, 4.16 g, 2 h), Murrakush (Marrakesh), AH 535 = 1140/1. Citing his son Tashufin as heir. Within a circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh ṣalla Allāh / ʿalayh wa sallam amīr al-muslimīn / ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf walī ʿaḥduhū / al-amīr Tāshufīn’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. May Allah bless him and grant him peace. The Commander of the Muslims, Ali son of Yusuf, his heir Amir Tashufin’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘wa man yabtagh ghayr al-ʾIslām dīnan falan yuqbala minhu wa huwa fī al-ʾākhirati min al-khāsirīn’ (‘And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he will be among the losers’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 3: 85). Rev. Within a circle, ‘al-imām / ʿabd / Allāh / amīr al-muʾminīn al-ʿAbbāsī’ (‘The Imam, the Servant of Allah, the Commander of the Believers, the ʿAbbasid’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh al-raḥmān al-raḥīm ḍuriba hādhā al-dīnār bi Murrākush ʿām khams wa thalāthīn wa khamsa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. This dinar was struck in Marrakesh in the year 535’ in Arabic). Album 466.3. Bent and straigthened, otherwise, about extremely fine.