The Samir Shamma Prize for Islamic Numismatics is a bi-annual award for the best book or article in the field of Islamic Numismatics.

History and purpose

The

Royal Numismatic Society The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics. Its patron was Queen Elizabeth II. Membership Foremost collectors and researchers, bo ...

established the prize in 1992 following a legacy from Honorary fellow

Samir Shamma Samir (variantly spelled Sameer) is a male name found commonly in the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe. In Arabic, Samir () means holy, jovial, loyal or charming. In Albanian, it translates literally as “so good” but the connotation is clo ...

. The prize of £2000 is awarded every two years for the book or article published within the previous three years that is considered the most useful to students of Islamic numismatics.

List of winners

Past recipients of the Samir Shamma Prize. * 1993

Gert Rispling Gert is a mainly masculine given name ( short form of Gerrit, Gerard, etc.) with some female bearers (short for Gertrude). Since 1993 no one in Sweden has been baptised as Gert according to the Swedish Bureau of Census, so the name is becoming ...

("The Volgar Bulgarian imitative coinage of al-amir Yaltawar ('Barman') and Mikail b. Jafar", in kenneth Jonnson (ed.): Sigtuna Papers New series 6, Stockholm, 1990) * 1995

Lutz Ilisch Lutz is a surname and given name, occasionally a short form of Ludwig. People with the name include: Surname *Adolfo Lutz (1855–1940), Brazilian physician * Aleda E. Lutz (1915–1944), American Army flight nurse * Alois Lutz, Austrian figure ...

(Sylloge Nummorum Arabicorum Tuebingen. Palaestina IVa Bilad ash-Sham I, Tuebingen, 1993) * 1997

Hodge M. Malek Hodge may refer to: Places United States *Hodge, California, an unincorporated community *Hodge, Louisiana, a village *Hodge, Missouri, an unincorporated community *The Hodge Building, the historic name of the Begich Towers in Whittier, Alaska Oth ...

(papers on Tabari dirhams) and Robert and Monika Tye (Jitals, South Uist, 1995) * 1999 Nayef G. Goussous (Umayyad Coinage of Bilad al-Sham, Amman, 1996) * 2000

Stephen Album Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; h ...

(Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean Museum, 10 : Arabia and East Africa, Oxford, 1999) * 2003

Stan Goron Stan or STAN may refer to: People * Stan (given name), a list of people with the given name ** Stan Laurel (1890–1965), English comic actor, part of duo Laurel and Hardy * Stan (surname), a Romanian surname * Stan! (born 1964), American author ...

and

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(The Coins of the Indian Sultanates, New Delhi, 2001) * 2005

Stefan Heidemann Stefan Heidemann (born 1961 in Versmold in Westphalia) is a German orientalist at Hamburg University, Hamburg. Biography Islamic studies including Islamic Art and economics in Regensburg, Berlin, Damascus and Cairo 1982–1993; Ph.D. in Islam ...

(numismatic contributions to Raqqa in S. Heidemann - A Becker (eds.): Die Islamische Stadt, Mainz, 2003) and

and

Anthony Goodwin Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the '' Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton ...

(Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean Museum, 1: The Pre-Reform Coinage of the Early Islamic Period, Oxford, 2002) * 2007

Aman ur-Rahman Aman may refer to:Poli People First names * Aman Hambleton (born 1992), Canadian chess grandmaster * Aman Hayer (born 1979), Bhangra musician * Aman Verma (actor) (born 1971), Indian actor Surnames * Mohammed Aman (born 1994), Ethiopian mid ...

(Zahir uddin Mahammad Babur. A Numismatic Study, Karachi, 2005) and Jere Bacharach (Islamic History Through Coins: an Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-century Ikshidid Coinage, Cairo and New York, 2006) * 2009

(Studies in the Khalili Collection, IV: Arab-Byzantine Coinage, London, 2005) * 2012 Giulio Bernardi (Arabic Gold Coins. Corpus, vol. I, Trieste, 2010 * 2020

Dorota Malarczyk Dorota Malarczyk is a Polish numismatist and Islamicist, who is a curator of the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum, which is the coin cabinet of the National Museum, Krakow. In 2020 the Royal Numismatic Society awarded her the Samir Shamma Prize for I ...

References

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