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

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" Kurr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ducène, Jean-Charles

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062557
Doc. NO	:	ALei2954
Main Entry	:	Ducène, Jean-Charles
Title & Author	:	Kurr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ducène, Jean-Charles
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(765 words)
Abstract	:	A loanword from Aramaic with roots in Sumerian (gur) , the kurr (pl. akrār ) was the largest unit of measure used in the mediaeval Middle East, especially Iraq, for weighing. It first appeared in Arabic in the third/ninth century, when the Arab geographer Ibn Khurradādhbih (d. c.299/912) used it to quantify the harvest in Iraq (Ibn Khurradādhbih, 8). It was an official unit of measure used to administer state lands and agricultural produce. The Arab geographers Ibn Ḥawqal (died after 367/978) and al-Muqaddasī (d. c.380/
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2954.pdf