Daaif notes that a concept similar to diyah was present in pre-Islamic Arabia, where it was paid in terms of goods or animals rather than cash. At least one western scholar of Islam (Joseph Schacht) translates diya as weregeld (Weregeld is also known as man price, and was a value placed on every being and piece of property to be paid -- in the case of loss -- as restitution to the victim's family or to the owner of the property. It was used, for example in the Frankish Salic Code).