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1970
When in 75o the ‘Abbāsids signalized their accession by a general massacre of the members of the house of Umayyah,1one of the very few who escaped was ‘Abd-al-Raḥmān ibn-Mu‘āwiyah,2 a grandson of Hishām, the tenth caliph of Damascus. The story of the narrow escape of this twenty-year-old youth and of his five years’ wandering in disguise through ...
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When in 75o the ‘Abbāsids signalized their accession by a general massacre of the members of the house of Umayyah,1one of the very few who escaped was ‘Abd-al-Raḥmān ibn-Mu‘āwiyah,2 a grandson of Hishām, the tenth caliph of Damascus. The story of the narrow escape of this twenty-year-old youth and of his five years’ wandering in disguise through ...
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2013
The present paper tries to provide a rough overview over lead coins roughly dating to the Umayyad period (ca. 700-750 AD). Lead coins can be either issued alongside copper coins like in Baalbek or Jurjan as part of the regular petty coinage, they can be a local currency like in the Persian Gulf region, or they can have been produced in unofficial local
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The present paper tries to provide a rough overview over lead coins roughly dating to the Umayyad period (ca. 700-750 AD). Lead coins can be either issued alongside copper coins like in Baalbek or Jurjan as part of the regular petty coinage, they can be a local currency like in the Persian Gulf region, or they can have been produced in unofficial local
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