page_title: Raqqada
section_title: National Museum of Islamic Art
hierarchical_section_title: Raqqada / National Museum of Islamic Art
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Dinar Aghlabide frappé, sans doute à Kairouan, en 192 H / 808 AD, durant le règne du 1er émir Aghlabide Ibrahim Ier (إبراهيم بن الأغلب). Diamètre:1,9 cm, poids: 4,2 g. Conservé au Musée des arts islamiques, Raqqada, Kairouan, Tunisie.
context_page_description: Raqqāda is the site of the second capital, in Tunisia of the 9th-century dynasty of Aghlabids, located about ten kilometers southwest of Kairouan, Tunisia. The site now houses the National Museum of Islamic Art.
context_section_description: The museum specializes in medieval Islamic art and includes works from Kairouan and Raqqada sites and Al-Mansuriya, a former princely city built in the Fatimid period. 
  Admission is vested in the Great Mosque of Kairouan and presents a reproduction of its mihrab and a model of the monument. The next room contains collections of ceramics dating from the times when Raqqada was occupied (9th and 10th centuries). Another room contains collections of numismatic coins from different eras that illustrate the economic history of the Ifriqiya for more than six centuries. The largest collection is that of Korans of exceptional calligraphy and a collection of manuscripts and pages belonging originally to the library of the Great Mosque of Kairouan. Among the gems of this collection, are the leaves of the Blue Koran dating from the 10th century.
caption: Aghlabid Dinar (early 9th century) in the collections of the museum.
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