This book offers a convenient and comprehensive guide to Islamic coinage, as well as Arabic coins by non-Muslims from Sicily to India and Indonesia. Topics discussed are the Arabic alphabet, purity marks, ornamentation, religious inscriptions, a list of poetic inscriptions used of various monarchs, regnal years, eras, and cycles. Also included are an exhaustive list of mint cities, with a list of characteristic epithets, as well as a table of the years of the Hejira. This work is ideal for numismatists and non-specialists alike.