Al-Yatima

Al-Yatīma was a pearl "considered to be the most celebrated Islamic jewel of the Middle Ages". How it came into Muslim hands is not clear: it might have come from Visigothic Spain or the Sasanian Empire during the Islamic Conquests. During the Umayyad period al-Yatīma was displayed in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem; it came into Abbasid hands and became part of their royal insignia, mounted on the crown of al-Mu'tasim. From the tenth century onwards, its history is uncertain. The 11th-century Book of Gifts and Rarities records that the Yatīma was discovered by divers in the reign of Harun al-Rashid and that the Umayyads' pearl was called al-ʿAẓīma. It was supposedly given by al-Mahdi to a slave girl named Hasana, who had it cut up to make dice.
It has been suggested that the German idea of der Weise, a precious stone in the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor, was inspired by Arabic traditions of al-Yatīma.