dinar

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A type of coin

Names

  • Arabic: دينار, دنانير = dīnār, danānīr 1-2
  • Syriac: ܕܝܢܪ̈ܐ = DYNRʾ 3

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:426; 2:42, 46-47, 258; 3:14 [Arabic].
    • dinars: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 262; II, 307, 312-13, 514; III, 546 [English].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 3:82, 133, 162, 179-180, 189, 205, 232-235, 240, 242-243; 4:61, 83, 97, 101, 158 [Arabic].
    • dinars: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), III, 599, 642, 668, 688, 703, 715, 745-49, 756, 758-9; IV, 827, 851, 864, 867, 912 [English].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 53 [Syriac].
    • dinar: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 82, 86, 141, 275; II, 12, 186, 239, 425, 448, 473-476, 484-486, 511, 526, 528; III, 14, 46, 64, 75, 92, 94, 98, 99, 106, 126, 146, 163, 175, 180, 181, 189, 195, 198, 199, 205, 208, 212, 216, 219, 223, 224, 227, 233, 244, 276, 283, 295, 317, 325, 326, 329, 332, 333, 341, 346, 354, 355, 359, 364, 370, 375, 376, 386, 390, 397, 404, 413 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “dinar” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/146.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching, Syriac name collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
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