Money, power and politics in early Islamic Syria : a review of current debates / edited by John Haldon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haldon, John F.

Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic conditions.

Syria--History--634-750.

Syria.

History.

Syria--History--750-1260.

Syria--Economic conditions.

Islamic Empire--History--661-750.

Islamic Empire.

Islamic Empire--History--750-1258.

Islamic Empire--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xiv, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

Contents:

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 (Tübingen)

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).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

ISBN:

9780754668497

0754668495

9781409403975

1409403971

OCLC:

467926683

Publisher Number:

99939553746