Money, power and politics in early Islamic Syria : a review of current debates

Weitere Verfasser: Haldon, John F.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Farnham, Surrey, England ; : Burlington, VT :. Ashgate, 2010.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 210 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Syria
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction. Greater Syria in the seventh century: context and background / John Haldon (Princeton)
  • Coinage and the economy of Syria-Palestine in the seventh and eighth centuries CE / Alan Walmsley (Copenhagen)
  • Christian communities in early Islamic Syria and northern Jazira: the dynamics of adaptation / Stephen Humphreys (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Administering the early Islamic empire : insights from the papyri / Arietta Papaconstantinou (Oxford)
  • Muawiyas state / Clive Foss (Georgetown)
  • First-century Islamic currency : mastering the message from the money / Gene Heck (Riyadh)
  • Abd al-Malik's monetary reform in copper and the failure of centralisation / Lutz Ilisch (Tubingen)
  • Early Islamic urbanism and building activity in Jerusalem and at Hammath Gader/ Jodi Magness (Univ of N. Carolina)
  • Late antique legacies and Muslim economic expansion / Jairus Banaji (New Delhi)
  • Syrian elites from Byzantium to Islam: survival or extinction? / Hugh Kennedy (SOAS).