All sessions are in Dickinson Hall, room 211
Coffee and lunches will be available in Dickinson Hall 210
09.00 – 09.50 Registration, coffee (Dickinson 210)
09.50 –10.00 Opening of Workshop John Haldon (Princeton)
SESSION I Institutions and resources
(Chair: John Haldon)
10.00 - 11.15 Alan Walmsley (DO/Copenhagen) 'Coinage and the economy in Syria: from cUmar to Marwān II'
Discussant: Alan Stahl (Princeton)
11.15 - 12.30 Stephen Humphreys (UCSB) 'Churches, monasteries and the economy'
Discussant: Arietta Papaconstantinou (DO/Paris)
12.30 -13.30 General discussion
13.30 - 15:00 Lunch
SESSION II Government and administration
(Chair: Jairus Banaji)
15.00 – 16.15 Robert Hoyland (St Andrews) 'New Arabic inscriptions and the administration of the early Islamic empire'
Discussant: Michael Cook (Princeton)
16.15 – 17.30 Clive Foss (Georgetown) 'Islamic Syria before Abd al-Malik: state, money and central government'
Discussant: Chase Robinson (Oxford)
17.30 – 18.30 General discussion
SESSION III Mints, commerce and exchange
(Chair: Alan Stahl)
10.00 – 11.15 Jairus Banaji (IAS) 'Late Antiquity to Early Islam: Legacies, Ruptures and Innovation'
Discussant: Michael Morony (UCLA)
11.15 – 12.30 Gene Heck (Riyadh) 'Precious metals and the evolution of Arab currency in the first century of Islam'
Discussant: Alan Walmsley (DO/Copenhagen)
12.30 – 13.45 Lutz Ilisch (Tübingen) 'Abd al-Malik’s monetary reform in copper and the failure of centralisation'
Discussant: Fred Donner (Chicago)
13.45 – 15.00 Lunch and general discussion
SESSION IV Towns and country: divergences and continuities15.00 – 16.15 Jodi Magness (UNC) 'The Byzantine – early Islamic transition in Jerusalem in light of the early Islamic structures south and southwest of the Temple Mount (al-Haram ash-Sharif)'
Discussant: Guy Stroumsa (Princeton/Jerusalem)
16.15 – 17.30 Rebecca Foote (Harvard) 'Early Islamic rural landholding and development'
Discussant: Don Whitcomb (Chicago)
17.30 – 18.30 General discussion
18.30 + Closing comments: John Haldon
The organisers would like to express their gratitude for financial and other support to:
Department of Near Eastern Studies
History Department
Center for Collaboration in History
The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies