The Coin of The Saxon King Offa (King of Mercia 757–796) contains Arabic Islamic inscriptions so the question is, was he a Muslim? Watch this video in order to find out!

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Sources and further reading:

Offa's Coin : [ Ссылка ] , Shelfmark:British Museum, CM 1913,1213.1 (2023-01-15)

Dinar of Mansuur: [ Ссылка ] (2023-01-15)

Bede (1991). D.H. Farmer (ed.). Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Translated by Leo Sherley-Price. Revised by R.E. Latham. London: Penguin.

Bennison, Amira K. (2014). The great caliphs the golden age of the 'Abbasid Empire. Johanneshov: MTM

Fletcher, Richard (1989). Who's Who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England. Shepheard-Walwyn

Savage-smith, Emilie, Pormann, Peter E. & Savage-Smith, Emilie (2007). Medieval islamic medicine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Swanton, Michael (2010). The Lives of Two Offas, Vitae Offarum Duorum. Crediton: The Medieval Press.

Wormald, Patrick, "The Age of Offa and Alcuin", in Campbell, John; John, Eric; Wormald, Patrick (1991). The Anglo-Saxons. Penguin Books

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