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Document Details : Title: From 'Abzūd' to 'Baraka' Subtitle: A Numismatic Study of Blessing across Sasanian and Islamic Eras Author(s): MOHAMMADI, Seyed Omid , SOLEIMANI, Saeed Journal: Bibliotheca Orientalis Volume: 81 Issue: 5-6 Date: 2024 Pages: 410-447 DOI: 10.2143/BIOR.81.5.3295093 Abstract : This article analyzes the possibility that the Pahlavi word abzūd, which was usually used on numerous Sasanian coins with the word xwarrah, was slowly transformed to baraka, an Arabic word, by Iranians after the Arab conquest of Iran. To show that, this research compiles a catalogue of post-Sasanian coins featuring the GDH ideogram, the Pahlavi word ’pzwt, or the Arabic baraka on their margins. The islamization of abzūd helped the concept stay alive through time, and it lives on in the form of baraka even to date. The term baraka was also used on various artifacts in the Islamic world, and a few of these are discussed here. Additionally, a new copper coin countermarked with the GDH ideogram, an Abbasid copper coin bearing this ideogram, and several other previously unpublished coins of significance within this context are introduced in this paper. |
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