Money, Power and Politics in Early Islamic Syria

A Review of Current Debates

Buch | Softcover

226 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138246386 (ISBN)

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The transformation of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire from the middle of the seventh century CE under the impact of Islam has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in recent years, and as more archaeological material becomes available, has been subject to revision and rethinking in ways that radically affect what we know or understand about the area, about state-building and the economy and society of the early Islamic world, and about issues such as urbanisation, town-country relations, the ways in which a different religious culture impacted on the built environment, and about politics. This volume represents the fruits of a workshop held at Princeton University in May 2007 to discuss the ways in which recent work has affected our understanding of the nature of economic and exchange activity in particular, and the broader implications of these advances for the history of the region.

John Haldon is Professor of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, USA

Introduction Greater Syria in the Seventh Century: Context and Background, John Haldon; Chapter 1 Coinage and the Economy of Syria-Palestine in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE, Alan Walmsley; Chapter 2 Christian Communities in Early Islamic Syria and Northern Jazira: the Dynamics of Adaptation, R. Stephen Humphreys; Chapter 3 Administering the Early Islamic Empire: Insights from the Papyri, Arietta Papaconstantinou; Chapter 4 Mu‘?w?ya’s State, Clive Foss; Chapter 5 First Century Islamic Currency: Mastering the Message from the Money, Gene W. Heck; Chapter 6 ‘Abd al-Malik’s Monetary Reform in Copper and the Failure of Centralization, Lutz Ilisch; Chapter 7 Early Islamic Urbanism and Building Activity in Jerusalem and at Hammath Gader, Jodi Magness; Chapter 8 Late Antique Legacies and Muslim Economic Expansion, Jairus Banaji; Chapter 9 Syrian Elites from Byzantium to Islam: Survival or Extinction?, Hugh Kennedy;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	317 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9781138246386 / 9781138246386
Zustand	Neuware