Money, power and politics in early Islamic Syria
Subtitle: a review of current debates
By: [edited by] John Haldon.
Contributors: Haldon, John F.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754668497; 9781409403975
Subjects: Syria -- History -- 634-750; Syria -- History -- 750-1260; Syria -- Economic conditions; Islamic Empire -- History -- 661-750; Islamic Empire -- History -- 750-1258; Islamic Empire -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Greater Syria in the seventh century: context and background / John Haldon (Princeton); title: Coinage and the economy of Syria-Palestine in the seventh and eighth centuries CE / Alan Walmsley (Copenhagen); title: Christian communities in early Islamic Syria and northern Jazira: the dynamics of adaptation / Stephen Humphreys (University of California, Santa Barbara); title: Administering the early Islamic empire : insights from the papyri / Arietta Papaconstantinou (Oxford); title: Muawiyas state / Clive Foss (Georgetown); title: First-century Islamic currency : mastering the message from the money / Gene Heck (Riyadh); title: Abd al-Malik's monetary reform in copper and the failure of centralisation / Lutz Ilisch (Tübingen); title: Early Islamic urbanism and building activity in Jerusalem and at Hammath Gader/ Jodi Magness (Univ of N. Carolina); title: Late antique legacies and Muslim economic expansion / Jairus Banaji (New Delhi); title: Syrian elites from Byzantium to Islam: survival or extinction? / Hugh Kennedy (SOAS).