Money, power and politics in early Islamic Syria : a review of current debates / edited by John Haldon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Greater Syria in the seventh century: context and background / John Haldon (Princeton) -- Coinage and the economy of Syria-Palestine in the seventh and eighth centuries CE / Alan Walmsley (Copenhagen) -- Christian communities in early Islamic Syria and northern Jazira: the dynamics of adaptation / Stephen Humphreys (University of California, Santa Barbara) -- Administering the early Islamic empire : insights from the papyri / Arietta Papaconstantinou (Oxford) -- Muawiyas state / Clive Foss (Georgetown) -- First-century Islamic currency : mastering the message from the money / Gene Heck (Riyadh) -- Abd al-Malik's monetary reform in copper and the failure of centralisation / Lutz Ilisch (Tübingen) -- Early Islamic urbanism and building activity in Jerusalem and at Hammath Gader/ Jodi Magness (Univ of N. Carolina) -- Late antique legacies and Muslim economic expansion / Jairus Banaji (New Delhi) -- Syrian elites from Byzantium to Islam: survival or extinction? / Hugh Kennedy (SOAS).