Central Periphery? Art, Culture and History of the Medieval Jazira (Northern Mesopotamia, 8th-15th centuries)
Papers on the Conference held at the University of Bamberg, 31 October–2 November, 2012
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…what we find in Diyar Mudar in the late 8th century, illustrated by imported copper coins from the south, imitative coins of variable quality minted locally, and even copper cuttings; “their abundance,” Heidemann…
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…accustomed to figural coins. Nor, it seems, was it a step too far to depict overtly Christian religious images on these coins. More locally, within his own territories the evidence of Alpı’s coins shows that he…
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…been advised by Ibn al-Azraq himself to mint coins in order to promote trade using money. Indeed, Ibn al-Azraq records specifically that Alpı minted copper coins, known as al-fulūs al-Najmiyya, in Dhu’l-Qaʿda…
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…general or for their misunderstanding of price cycles. But he clearly thought that it was the misidentification of brown sugar as a hot remedy that caused its price to rise. Occasionally, the historian refers…
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…the interpretation of the coin finds from Resafa. Most of the Umayyad coins found intra muros or in the residence reached the city from the south, from the Damascus mint, few coins are from northern Syrian…
