page_title: Al-Amin
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Amin
caption_attribution_description: English: Abbasid Dinar (3.83 g) - Al Amin - 195 AH / 811 AD
context_page_description: Abu Musa Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid, better known by his regnal name of al-Amin, was the sixth Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, Harun al-Rashid, in 809 and ruled until he was deposed and killed in 813, during the civil war with his half-brother, al-Ma'mun.
context_section_description: Abu Musa Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid (Arabic: أبو موسى محمد بن هارون الرشيد‎, romanized: Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd; April 787 – 24/25 September 813), better known by his regnal name of al-Amin (Arabic: الأمين‎, romanized: al-Amīn), was the sixth Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, Harun al-Rashid, in 809 and ruled until he was deposed and killed in 813, during the civil war with his half-brother, al-Ma'mun.
caption: Gold dinar of al-Amin, minted in Baghdad in 811
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