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A fals minted in Damascus between 696 and 750 Fals of al-Ma'mun, AH 219 (834/5 CE), al-Quds ().Under the Umayyads Jerusalem was known by its Roman name Iliya Filastin ("Aelia Palaestina"), but from the time of Caliph al-Ma'mun, it was given the Islamic religious name al-Quds (meaning «holiness» or «sanctity»).
The word dinar comes from the Latin word denarius, which was a silver coin. The name "dinar" is also used for Sasanid, Kushan, and Kidarite gold coins, though it is not known what the contemporary name was. The first dinars were issued by the Umayyad Caliphate. Under the dynasties that followed the use of the dinar spread from Islamic Spain to ...
The modern dinar's historical antecedents are the gold dinar and the silver dirham, the main coin of the medieval Islamic empires, first issued in AH 77 (696–697 AD) (Late Antiquity) by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. The word "dinar" derives from the Latin word "dēnārius," a silver coin of ancient Rome, which was first minted about c. 211 BC.
The term is a modern retranscription of fals, an early medieval Arab coin. "Fils" is the singular form in Arabic, not plural (as its final consonant might indicate to an English speaker). The plural form of fils is fulūs (فلوس); the latter term can also refer to small amounts of money or to money in general [ 1 ] in Egyptian and Iraqi and ...
1990 Islamic Coins and Trade in the Medieval World, by Nicholas Lowick, edited by Joe Cribb (Variorum Collected Studies, Series 318) -- This contains 19 articles, arranged in 3 sections: (1) Islamic Coins in Europe; (2) Coinage of Central Asia during the 10th and 11th centuries; (3) Coin finds and hoards and the trade of the Gulf and the Indian ...
In heraldry, a roundel of a gold colour is referred to as a bezant, in reference to the coin.Like many heraldic charges, the bezant originated during the crusading era, when Western European knights first came into contact with Byzantine gold coins, and were perhaps struck with their fine quality and purity.
In the Islamic world, this type of coin was designated under the name ruba'i, or quarter-dinar, as it weighed 1.05 g (0.034 ozt) of gold. [1] The ruba'i had been minted by the Muslims in Sicily, unlike the Muslim rulers of North Africa, who preferred the larger dinar. [3]