The Monotheisation of Pontic-Caspian Eurasia by Feldman Alex M.;

Author:Feldman, Alex M.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Monotheisation in Metal

‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine’, declares the LORD Almighty.

Haggai 2:8 (NIV)

In the seventh to ninth centuries, the Islamic caliphs, Roman/Byzantine emperors and Khazarian khağans minted coins which proclaimed their respective monotheistic affiliations: Islam, Christianity and Judaism. This chapter explores how gold and silver coin reforms representing divinity were a major departure from previous coins which primarily represented rulers. The first section, ‘Empires of Faith and their Finances’, charts the confessional coin reforms of these three ‘empires of faith’ from the late seventh century to Khazaria’s Moses coins of the late 830s. The second section, ‘Coinage and “Commonwealth” (Ninth to Eleventh Century): the Ummah and the Oikoumene’, expands to include the monotheistic coinages of some eleventh- to thirteenth-century peripheral dynasties within the Islamic ummah and the Christian oikoumene and explores hints of Judaic involvement in otherwise Islamic and Christian mints across the worlds of both Islam and Christendom.

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