Sources of early Islamic silver: lead isotope analysis of dirhams
The expansion of the early Islamic state (c. AD 700–900) was underpinned by the minting of silver coins (dirhams) on an enormous scale. While the wider effects of this coinage have been studied extensively, the sources of silver have attracted less attention and research has relied on literary texts...
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Cambridge University Press
2023
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