Die Fundmünzen von Harrān und ihr Verhältnis zur lokalen Geschichte
During the 1940s and 1950s D. Storm Rice and Seton Lloyd, together with the Turkish Antiquity Authority, undertook archaeological excavations in Harrān. With the exception of two preliminary reports and a few articles, the excavations remain largely unpublished. The 264 coins constitute an independent source on the regional, political and economic history of Harrān. For the Umayyad and early Abbasid period, the coins constitute a source on the pattern of the city's regional integration. Two-thirds of the coins date from the Ayyubid period. The circulation is characterized by a competition of different coinages: first, those which were struck for the political entities to which Harrān belonged; and second, imported coins, i.e. of Byzantine and Rūm-Saljūq origin. Third, copper coins from Northern Syria, despite the fact that the Diyār Mudar and Northern Syria belong to different branches of the Ayyubid dynasty. Two dirhams of the Saljūq prince al-Malik Mas‘ūd, who resided in Mosul between 504/1111 and 511/1118, are historical documents of importance.
Die Renaissance der Städte in Nordsyrien und Nordmesopotamien : städtische Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Bedingungen in ar-Raqqa und Ḥarrān von der Zeit der beduinischen Vorherrschaft bis zu den Seldschuken
The period between 950 and 1150 A.D. is regarded as "turning point in the history of the Islamic Culture" from the Early Islamic to the Late Medieval civilization Harran and al-Raqqa serve as paradigma for the development in Northern Syria and Northern Mesopotamia. After 1086 A.D., measures undertaken by the Seljuqs in order to safeguard their hegemony led to a renaissance of cities inspite of permanent power struggles and the crusades. An analysis of the monetary circulation according to archaeological and literal evidence serves as measure for the economic recovery. A corpus of the coin production in al-Raqqa, Harran and al-Ruha'/Edessa supplements the textual sources.
Amurath to Amurath
A SECOND edition of Miss Bell's account of her journey from Aleppo to Baghdad, and thence to Konia, is very welcome; for surely “Amurath to Amurath “deserves to rank with the best of travel books. Miss Bell's keen observation, penetrating judgment, and profound archseological knowledge, which are combined with a gift of graphic narrative, are here perhaps at their best. She is equally at home in describing an ancient Mesopotamian site and in recording the gossip of the bazaar. Her thumb-nail sketches of the people she met are vivid and compact with an imaginative insight into the soul of the Eastern races. As this book was first published in 1911, soon after the uprising of the Committee of Union and Progress and the advent to power of the young Turk, its political interest, when read in the light of subsequent events, scarcely need be emphasised.Amurath to Amurath.Gertrude LowthianBellBy. Second edition. Pp. xvii + 370 + 105 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1924.) 21s. net.