Dirham Hoards
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Recent papers in Dirham Hoards
That there was an in!ux of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland.... more
4th Assemani Symposium on Islamic coins, eds. A. D’Ottone and B. Gallagher (Numismatica antica e medievale. Studi) (Trieste, in the press)
Overview of the results of the project "Dirhams for Slaves". Translated by Minoru Ozawa.
An examination of 159 hoards with 1822 dirhams minted at Damascus during the first four centuries of Islam sheds much light on a number of important questions regarding the economic history of the Near East during the Umayyad, ‘Abbāsid,... more
A settlement cluster around Kalisz first emerged in the Roman Period on a route leading from the south towards the Baltic coast. In the Early Middle Ages, a settlement centre connected with the Kalisz Zawodzie stronghold developed at the... more
Conference to be held in Corpus Christi College, Oxford
MBI Al Jaber Building, 14-15 March 2016
MBI Al Jaber Building, 14-15 March 2016
To better understand the multicultural nature of the early Medieval Rus (c. 800-1000 CE) the plethora of influences which conglomerated in order to make this polity must be traced and analyzed. Where the general consensus of scholars has... more
In this project I will examine the extensively analyzed Islamic dirhams found in buried hoards and burial contexts of the Baltic Sea coastal areas and Northern Russia. These dirhams have been thoroughly research by many prominent scholars... more