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ARABIC NUMISMATICS – AN INTRODUCTORY
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September 20, 2019 · by Nynke van der Veldt · in
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This seminar offers an introduction to the study of Arabic Numismatics. The lectures will provide
an overview of the relevant aspects of Arabic coins. Arabic coins contain a mine of information:
besides the basic chrono-topic details – the city and the date of their production – they also carry
religious and political information, since they can contain up to 150 words.
‘Abbasid dirham – temp. al-Manṣūr (136158 AH/AD 754-775), Marw 139
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This makes coins an unexpected but extremely abundant
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and essential source for archaeologists and historians
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palaeography, economic history and art history. In short,
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working with Arabic coins enlarges the horizons of every
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researcher interested in the medieval Islamic world.
Besides discussing how coins can be used as historical
in Early Islam
sources, the lectures cover the basic steps in reading the
Arabic texts on the coins. During hands-on sessions,
participants will examine Arabic coins and complete a
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EmCo guest: Étienne de La
series of practical exercises on coins identification and
description.
Vaissière on September 30, 2019
11:00 am
Arianna D’Ottone Rambach
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Arianna D’Ottone Rambach is an expert on medieval Arabic
the Late Antique and Early
manuscripts at the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (since 2013) and professor
Islamicate Middle East. March 12-
extraordinarius for Arabic language and literature at La Sapienza University Rome (since 2014.)
13, 2020, Leiden University on
Her interest in Arabic coins started in 2003 when the Capitoline museums reopened. There, she
catalogued Arabic coins from the Ludovico Stanzani collection from 2006 to 2008. She deepened
October 1, 2019
her knowledge of Islamic numismatics in Tübingen with Lutz Ilisch at the research center of
EmCo guest: Antoine Borrut on
Islamic numismatics.
October 9, 2019
Since 2009 she is working on an unpublished correspondence of orientalist Simone Assemani,
Arabic Numismatics – an
who was also interested in numismatics, and other earlier numismatists. One of her main
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research topics is the coin production of Yemen.
2019
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Ph. Grierson, Numismatics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.
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Tue 29 October: Lipsius 101
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Master and PhD students of Arabic are invited to register.
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2019
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