Dirham - Muhammad al-Hajj ad-Dila'i type 2

The Dila'iyya were a Sufi brotherhood that exploited the collapse of Sa'adian authority to govern much of northern and central Morocco through the mid-seventeenth century — a rare instance of a zawiya functioning as a fully sovereign minting power. By 1662, their political position was already crumbling under sustained military pressure from the rising Alawi sultan Moulay al-Rashid, who would extinguish Dila'i independence entirely within the following two years. Coinage struck in Muhammad al-Hajj's name during this terminal phase is correspondingly scarce.