History of Currency in the State of Bahrain

by Robert & Elisabeth DARLEY-DORAN
issued by The Bahrain Monetary Agency 1417H/1996 AD

176 pages, laminated jacket, cloth bound, illustrated throughout with color photographs.
Contents: Bahrain and the Development of Trade before the Invention of Coinage; The Development of Coinage up to the Birth of the Prophet; Coinage in the time of the Prophet and in the Early Centuries of the Muslim Community; Coinage in a Period of Political Diversity in the Muslim World; The Coming of the Mongols and the Rise of Trading States in Italy; The First Appearance of Europeans in the Gulf and the Rise of the Three Great Islamic Empires; The Decline of the Three Great Islamic Empires and the Rise of Local Consciousness in the Arabian Peninsula; From the arrival of the Al Khalifa Family with the Discovery of Oil in Bahrain; Coinage and Currency in Bahrain in the four decades between the Discovery of Oil and the Establishment of the Bahrain Monetary Agency; The Establishment of the Bahrain Monetary Agency and its Role as the Central Monetary Institution of the state; Important dates in the Monetary History of Bahrain.