awqiyyah
Sign in to saveThe uqiyyah (), sometimes spelled awqiyyah, is the name for a historical unit of weight that varies between regions, as listed below. 1 uqiyyah= 40 dirham. 1 dirham= 0.7 dinar.
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The uqiyyah (), sometimes spelled awqiyyah, is the name for a historical unit of weight that varies between regions, as listed below. 1 uqiyyah= 40 dirham. 1 dirham= 0.7 dinar.
It corresponds to the historical Roman ounce and was defined in Iraq as one twelfth of a ratl or in parts of Egypt as one eighth of a ratl. As the ratl varied so did the uqiyyah as its part. Egypt: 37g Aleppo: 320g Beirut: 213.39g Jerusalem: 240g Malta: ~26.46 g
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