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The remarkable discoveries of over 300 new varieties of local copper currency from the Sakra region in northwestern Pakistan, covering a 700-year period, have opened up new vistas in the study of Gandhara in late antiquity. This monograph introduces the native Sakra copper coinage, which can be dated from ca. 500 to 1100, corresponding to the Nezak, Turk Shahi, Hindu Shahi, and Ghaznavid periods.

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Waleed Ziad is Assistant Professor and Ali Jarrahi Fellow in Persian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Formerly a Research Fellow at the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School, Ziad has conducted fieldwork in over 120 towns across Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan. His books include Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus (Harvard University Press, 2021) and Beyond Khutba and Sikka: Sovereignty and Coinage in Sindh, 1300-1700 (forthcoming). He received his BA, MA/MPhil, and PhD from Yale University, where his dissertation was awarded the university-wide Theron Rockwell Field Prize, one of the two most prestigious Yale dissertation awards across disciplines.

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