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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2617779, member: 83956&quot;]That book looks lovely. Last year I read Michael Cook&#039;s <i>The Koran, A Very Short Introduction</i>, and he had a very brief but interesting discussion of the religious dilemma pious Muslims faced when Quranic text began to appear on coinage. Would it be disrespectful for non-Muslims to handle such coinage? If so, how might that hamper trade? Unfortunately, Cook doesn&#039;t go into how that dilemma was resolved. Perhaps simple pragmatics won the day. At any rate, the brief discussion inspired me to get a pre-Muslim Khusro drachm; I&#039;m still hoping to acquire one with the brief bismallah (&quot;In the Name of God...&quot;) on it, but these command a slight premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]573845[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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