dirhems

a hundred dirhems, which is all I have in the world.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

She answered, 'Thy son bought me awhile ago, for ten thousand dirhems, meaning to give me to thee; but the daughter of thine uncle [FN#52] sent him the price aforesaid and bade him shut me up from thee in this chamber.'

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

I expect from your justice, sir, that you will make them deliver me the two thousand five hundred dirhems which is my due; and if you have a mind that my comrades should confess the truth, you must order them three times as many blows as I have had, and you will find they will open their eyes as well as I have done. "

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

Although the new gold dinars and silver dirhems were very similar in size and weight to the coins they replaced, their design for the day was completely revolutionary.

Dinar Coins Of The Ancient World : Coin Collecting News 2008

A man-slave sold among the unbelievers for a dirhem; a donkey for the same; a sword, half a dirhem; a horse, five dirhems.

Burlesques 2006

And ten enormous chests were produced in which the accountant counted 1,000 bags of 1,000 dirhems each, and displayed several caskets of jewels containing such a treasure of rubies, smaragds, diamonds, and jacinths, as made the eyes of the aged ambassador twinkle with avarice.

Burlesques 2006

Who has not accumulated good with dirhems and dinars

The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003

The robber chief took pity upon him, ordered his robe to be restored to him and added to it a sheepskin jacket with some dirhems.

The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003

Accordingly he gave a purse of dirhems to one of his confidential servants to distribute it among recluses.

The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003

The Khalife El Mohdy Abou Abdallah Mohammed expended on his pilgrimage in A.H. 160, thirty millions of dirhems.

Travels in Arabia 2003