The story of a single Samanid dirham — from a silver mine in Badakhshan, into the hands of Viking traders on the Volga, and eventually to the New World. A thousand years in one coin. 8.5 x 11.5 inches.
| Publisher | Dar-us-Salam Kids |
| Author | Luqman Nagy |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Pages | 64 |
| Size | 8.5x11.5" (20x28cm) |
| Format | Full Color |
| Weight (lbs) | 0.86 |
Two tenth-century chroniclers recorded the first meetings between the Viking and Muslim worlds: the Arab Ibn Fadlan and the Persian Ibn Rustah. Their Risalahs — travelogues — give us firsthand knowledge of the Rus Vikings who lived along the Volga River in that period.
In their nearly insatiable pursuit of silver, tenth-century Viking tribes imported hundreds of thousands of dirhams from far-off Central Asia. Every one of those coins carried the same inscription: the Kalimah ash-Shahadah — La ilaha illa Allah, there is no deity worthy of worship other than Allah.
Hundreds of thousands of small metal messengers, moving north into pagan Scandinavia, each stamped with the central statement of Islam.
What effect, if any, did that message have on the people who handled these coins daily? The book follows one dirham from its birth in the silver mines of Badakhshan to its surprise arrival in the New World, and uses the journey to ask what the Kalimah does when it travels.
Older children and teenagers, and adults who assume the medieval Muslim world and the Viking world never touched. Large format at 8.5 x 11.5 inches.
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