The variation in the weights and caliber of the Islamic currency between the Islamic countries (247 A.H / 861 A.D-897 A.H / 1491 A.D)

Abstract

Summary

 The Islamic countries extending from Morocco to the Orient in the period (247 A.H / 861 A.D-897 A.H / 1491 A.D) , although most of them are subject to one political authority, but it never became a unified monetary area, while the system of criticism in the Middle East gold and silver, Sometimes in Egypt, and since the money stands out as one of the symbols of the sovereignty of the State and a badge of its emblems and the title of glory, and was often affected by the economic and political events and internal conflict so the Authority intervened sometimes to change the amounts and determine the currency, there was a wide variation in weights and caliber of some countries.

'We dealt with the first topic: a historical look at the Arab Islamic money, indicating that the Arabs before Islam did not have an independent monetary system, but they deal with the money that was struck by the neighboring nations, and we discussed in the second section all the weights of the Islamic currency in all Islamic countries. The second Abbasid period until the fall of Granada, while the third section was devoted to the caliber of the Islamic currency in the Islamic countries and the impact of the value of the currency up and down. We have reviewed the weights and caliber of the Islamic currency in the Islamic countries, which have struck them in cash in a historical presentation, pointing to the disparity between these countries, and we reached the results mentioned in the conclusion.