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    Dirham (redirect from Dirhem)
    The dirham, dirhem or drahm (Arabic: درهم) is a unit of currency and of mass. It is the name of the currencies of Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and...
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  • Egypt, Yemen, and Kenya Key people Abduljabbar Hayel Saeed (chairman, CEO) Dirhem Abdo Saeed Anam (Vice-chairman) Revenue $10 billion[citation needed] Website...
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    (1997), p. 411. "Artuqids of Mardin, Nasir al-Din Mahmud (1200–1222 AD), AE Dirhem 26 mm; minted AH 617 (1220/1221 AD) obv: Two-headed eagle. Rev: Three line...
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  • weighing one drachma is known as a stater, drachm, or drachma. The Ottoman dirhem (Ottoman Turkish: درهم) was based on the Sassanian drachm, which was itself...
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    introduced by the Arabs was the dinar, in gold and weighing 4.25 grams. The dirhem was silver and weighed 2.97 grams. The Aghlabites introduced the solidus...
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  • minted in billon. These circulated alongside Byzantine siliquae and Moorish dirhem and dinar. Around 1200, Sancho I also introduced the gold morabitino (from...
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    common Persian symbols, being a regular feature of the borders of Sassanian dirhems." Philip Grierson, Byzantine Coins, Taylor & Francis, 1982, p118 Bradley...
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    system to specify piece values. For example, as-Suli gives piece values in dirhem, the currency in use in his time: Dilaram Problem, c. 10th century This...
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  • βούτυρον butyr(ic), butter; διάβολος diabol(ic), devil; δραχμή drachma, dram, dirhem via Arabic; ἔλαιον elaeo-, oil, olive, oleum, latke via Russian and Yiddish;...
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    in Russia at large remains much in doubt". The yarmaq based on the Arab dirhem was perhaps issued in reaction to fall-off in Muslim minting in the 820s...
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  • 002 carats) dirhem درهم (Turkish) dram 16 kırat 3.207 g (0.1131 oz) okka اوقه oka 400 dirhem 1.282 kg (2.83 lb) miskal مثقال 1.5 dirhem 4.25 g (0.150 oz)...
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    Volumes. ISBN 0-521-07492-4 Oxford English Dictionary, 1st edition, s.v. 'dirhem' Archived 9 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine etymonline.com (20 September...
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    amasses 10,000 dirhems he makes his wife one gold ring; when he has 20,000 he makes two; and so the woman gets a new ring for every 10,000 dirhems her husband...
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    Sunni Islam[citation needed]). These coins are known in Arabic as dirhems. The dirhems of the caliphate gained wide acceptance. They are consequently found...
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  • Nicholls 8 July 2008 (2008-07-08) 6.99m Developers discover an Arab coin (dirhem) on ground marked for a housing development. The archaeological team find...
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    garden for the Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni for which they paid a tax of 500 dirhems. According to Jewish oral history, Timur gave the Jews of Balkh a city...
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  • series matched with the distinctly lower weight standard of the Arabic dirhem as introduced after ‘Abd al- Malik's currency reforms. From Kalhana's description...
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  • women girls and children [...] A little boy was worth twelve dirhems, a little girl five dirhems. In a single day the city of Antioch lost all its inhabitants...
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    Earliest Period of the Present Time: With Map and a Table Showing the Dinars, Dirhems and Fulus of the Amawee and Abasee Khaleefehs from the Year 79 to 332 A...
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  • October 14, 1840 Regular mail 1 para per 3 dirhem (ca. 9.6g) and 1 hour; half a para increase per additional dirhem and hour Official mail twice base rate...
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    and Persian. During the regency of Töregene Khatun (r.1244-1245), silver dirhems minted at Tbilisi stated "The Great Mongol Alush (Ulush) Bek”, which has...
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    temple restoration a pottery jar was found containing 220 Islamic silver dirhem coins from the Ilkhanid period. Excavations continued between 1977 and 1980...
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    org. Retrieved 2020-05-22. Oxford English Dictionary, 1st edition, s.v. 'dirhem' Touri, ‘Abdelaziz; Benaboud, Mhammad; Boujibar, Naïma El-Khatib; Lakhdar...
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    according to Maqrizi thirty pounds of meat sold for only half a dirhem, while for only four dirhems you could purchase a bunch of about 100 Damascus grapes....
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  • written as One square and ten roots of the same amount to thirty-nine dirhems; that is to say, what must be the square which, when increased by ten of...
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  • he recited 2900 gasidas of pre-Islamic date and Walid gave him 100,000 dirhems. He was favoured by Yazid II and his successor Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik...
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    Bahram Shah ibn Harb Historical era Middle Ages • Established 1029 • Disestablished 1225 Currency billon Dirhem Today part of Afghanistan Iran Pakistan...
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    9th century records the fact that the exilarch presented a gift of 4,000 dirhems on the Persian feast of Nauruz. Regarding the functions of the exilarch...
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  • oke (Ottoman Turkish: اوقه) was an Ottoman measure of mass, equal to 400 dirhems (Ottoman drams). Its value varied, but it was standardized in the late...
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  • coins), and their rotel (Armenian money) is equivalent to three hundred dirhems." With the decline of the Seljuks, and the new political upheaval presented...
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