Al-Nuqud al-Arabiyya: Madiha wa Hadiruha (Arab Coins: Their Past and Present)
Abd al-Rahman Fahmi Muhammad's book on the scientific and artistic history of Arab coins, showing that early writers such as Qudama ibn Jafar, al-Qalqashandi, Nasir-i Khusraw and Ibn Battuta treated coinage briefly while al-Maqrizi devoted a treatise to it, then tracing the development of Arab coins from the past to the present.
Abd al-Rahman Fahmi