The "Qandhari" designation points to the Kandahar-influenced Arab-Sasanian monetary tradition that persisted in Sind long after the Abbasid caliphate had standardized coinage elsewhere. These fractional silver pieces — the damma being a subdivision of the dirham — circulated in a region where the Arab governors operated with considerable autonomy from Baghdad, maintaining local denominational conventions that the broader Islamic world had largely abandoned by the tenth century.
The "Qandhari" designation points to the Kandahar-influenced Arab-Sasanian monetary tradition that persisted in Sind long after the Abbasid caliphate had standardized coinage elsewhere. These fractional silver pieces — the damma being a subdivision of the dirham — circulated in a region where the Arab governors operated with considerable autonomy from Baghdad, maintaining local denominational conventions that the broader Islamic world had largely abandoned by the tenth century.