Andrew Ehrenkreutz is one of the scholars who have placed the study of monetary history of the medieval Middle East on a new footing, integrating numismatic research into the study of economic history. The present volume brings together all his major contributions to this subject. It opens with three essays presenting an overview of economic and monetary changes in the region, then continues with a series of detailed studies on its gold and silver coinages; in these Ehrenkreutz's work on standards of fineness broke new ground. The chronological focus of the volume is from the Umayyad period up to the Ayyubids, but particular emphasis is given to Egypt and to the impact of the Crusades on the monetary history of the Near East. A further set of articles investigates aspects of fiscal administration and the operation of the Cairo mint.
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Monetary issues - an overview; monetary aspects of medieval Near Eastern economic history; money; another Orientalist's remarks concerning the Pirenne thesis; monetary developments - the early centuries through the Fatimids; Byzantine tetartera and Islamic dinars; numismatics re-monetized; studies in the monetary history of the Near East in the Middle Ages - the standard of fineness of some types of Dinars; studies in the monetary history of the Near East Middle Ages - 2, the standard of fineness of Western and Eastern Dinars before the Crusades; early Islamic mint output; numismato-statistical reflections on the annual gold coinage production of Tulunid mint in Egypt; the Fatimids in Palistine - the unwitting promoters of the Crusades; additional evidence of the Fatimid use of Dinars for propaganda purposes; economic issues; the Kurr system in Medieval Iraq; the Tasrif and Tasir calculations in medieval Mesopotamian fiscal operations; Al Buzajani (AD 939-997) on the Masir, Saladin and the world of the Crusaders; the crisis of Dinar in the Egypt of Saladin; the standard of fineness of gold coins circulating in Egypt at the time of the Crusades; Arabic Dinars struck by the Crusaders - a case of ignorance or of economic subversion; contributions to the knowledge of the standard of fineness of silver coinage struck in Egypt and Syria during the period of the Crusades; contributions to the knowledge of the fiscal administration of ages; extracts from a technical manual on the Ayyubid mint of Cairo.
