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Early Medieval World (Chapter 2 of World History, A Short, Visual Introduction)

open access: yes, 2015
The fifth through the tenth centuries was a period of significant transformation for Europe. As a result of the Germanic invasions and the collapse of the economy, the last Roman Emperor in the West, Romulus Augustulus (475-76), was deposed in 476.
Corning, Caitlin
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Yang Liangyao's Mission of 785 to the Caliph of Baġdād: evidence of an early Sino-Arabic power alliance? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The primary focus of this article is the information provided in a tomb stele (shendao zhi bei 神道之碑) of a Chinese eunuch, a certain Yang Liangyao 楊良瑤 (736–806), that will be comparatively analysed against the background of the political landscape under ...
Schottenhammer, Angela
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Drought as a possible contributor to the Visigothic Kingdom crisis and Islamic expansion in the Iberian Peninsula. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun, 2023
Camuera J   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Balkh 93 AH fulus revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The coins discussed here have been already published, and therefore are not new to the numismatic community. As far as I can see, they were first mentioned by Steve Album who says that a small hoard of them was found1, and they are also listed in the ...
Schindel, Nikolaus
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al-Marrār b. Munqidh’s Life and Poetry

open access: yesRize İlahiyat Dergisi
In the scholarly examination titled “al-Marrār b. Munqidh’s Life and Poetry”, a focused lens is turned towards the somewhat elusive figure of al-Marrār b.
Esat Ayyıldız
doaj   +1 more source

Qur’ans of the Umayyads

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2015
Qur’an manuscripts have attracted a good deal of attention from scholars, especiallyin the wake of the spectacular finds in the Great Mosque in Sanaa in1972. Some might suggest that this attention is superfluous or even reflectiveof a willful ignoring of the significance of the scripture’s oral transmissionand a privileging of the written word over the
openaire   +4 more sources

Bioarchaeological evidence of one of the earliest Islamic burials in the Levant. [PDF]

open access: yesCommun Biol, 2022
Srigyan M   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Some Greek and bilingual Arab-Byzantine bronze coins of Damascus and Hims-Emesa: some new examples of iconography and palaeography, with reference to some Byzantine issues of the late 6th and 7th centuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There is practically nothing in the historical sources about his having shown an interest in minting bronze coins. (WALKER 1956: p. xxv) There has been some discussion about the issuing authority and chronology of the bronze coinage of Mu‘$wiya’s ...
Trombley, Frank R.
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