{"id":282491,"date":"2024-03-09T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/?p=282491"},"modified":"2024-03-11T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T07:33:20","slug":"cookies-with-dinars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d9%83%d8%ad%d9%83-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookies with dinars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"rtl\">Were there really cakes made with dinars?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">The Fatimids established a house in Cairo dedicated to making cakes, which was called<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twinkl.com.au\/teaching-wiki\/khk-alyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dar al-Fitra<\/a> It was located next to the Grand Palace opposite Bab al-Daylam \u2013 currently the site of the Husseiniya Square \u2013 and its mission was to produce large quantities of cakes and sweets that were distributed to the common people and their elite one day before Eid al-Fitr. Among those cakes were some that were stuffed with gold dinars, and this type was called \u201cPay Attention to It\u201d cakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"rtl\">Gifts of dinars from the Caliphs<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">The intention here is to warn and draw attention so that no one swallows a dinar with his cake. In fact, the Fatimids were not the first to innovate the practice of stuffing cakes with gold, as the Tulunids preceded them. However, the Fatimid state expanded on this matter and allocated huge budgets for it within complex protocols for official celebrations, which included scattering gold during processions and holidays. Naturally, the residents of Cairo and Fustat were the most fortunate in obtaining gifts from the Fatimid caliphs in the form of cakes, sweets, and dinars.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-282493 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Gold_dinar_of_al-Hafiz_li-Din_Allah_AH_544-Small.jpg\" alt=\"Cookies with dinars\" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Gold_dinar_of_al-Hafiz_li-Din_Allah_AH_544-Small-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pub-8c6367eeb78947fb9a67f9647334fc7f.r2.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Gold_dinar_of_al-Hafiz_li-Din_Allah_AH_544-Small.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\">And whoever tells us about Al-Muizz\u2019s sword and gold should add to the list his cakes and sweets. It is enough to know that Dar Al-Fitra in Cairo alone employed more than one hundred craftsmen and consumed more than one thousand ardebs of flour and seven hundred qintars of sugar to make Eid Al-Fitr cakes \u2013 this is in addition to the golden filling \u2013 so that we may learn through this the nature of the Fatimid propaganda tools that made us, to this day, associate cakes with Eid Al-Fitr. And if our cakes today do not contain gold dinars, we must also be mindful of them because eating too much of them causes intestinal upsets.<\/p>\n\n<p dir=\"rtl\">For more similar topics, you can browse the Arab collector&#039;s website. <a href=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/antinopolis-commemorative-coins\/\">the Link<\/a> the next:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-arab-collector wp-block-embed-the-arab-collector\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"6Ume0jc3DslbWgFrGpoPzLwtACNukEZBqY8nMv1Taf\"><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gpEmLvd0t8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/antinopolis-commemorative-coins\/\">Antinopolis commemorative coins<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u201cAntinopolis Commemorative Coins\u201d \u2014 The Arab Collector\" src=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/%d9%86%d9%82%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%aa%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%88%d8%a8%d9%88%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b0%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9\/embed\/#?secret=agSVEwaU7Y#?secret=gpEmLvd0t8\" data-secret=\"gpEmLvd0t8\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were there really cakes made with dinars? The Fatimids in Cairo established a dedicated cake-making workshop called Dar al-Fitra, located next to the Great Palace opposite Bab al-Daylam \u2013 roughly the current site of the Husseiniya Square \u2013 and its purpose was to produce large quantities of cakes and sweets that were distributed to the common people and the elite a day before Eid al-Fitr\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":282492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,1574,364,1424],"tags":[2579,2582,2584,2583,331,342,304,305],"class_list":["post-282491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancient-coins","category-islamic-coins","category-historical","category-numismatics","tag-dinar","tag-2582","tag-2584","tag-2583","tag-331","tag-342","tag-304","tag-305"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}