Ashrafī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Ashrafī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Floor, Willem

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060739
Doc. NO	:	ALei1136
Main Entry	:	Floor, Willem
Title & Author	:	Ashrafī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Floor, Willem
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(516 words)
Abstract	:	Ashrafī is the term for a gold coin that was first minted in Mamlūk Egypt in 916/1510 and was probably named after the sultan al-Ashraf Barsbāy (r. 825–41/1422–38). It weighed about 3.45 grams and was modelled after the Venetian or Florentine ducat ( zecchino and fiorino ) in standard and fineness. Through trade movements, the ashrafī first travelled to eastern Anatolia, northern Iraq, and northern Syria, which had close relations with the Mamlūks, and then went eastward. The coin was circulating in Iran before Shāh Ismāʿīl (
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1136.pdf