THE URBAN ECONOMY IN SOUTHERN INLAND GREATER SYRIA FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY TO THE END OF THE UMAYYADS.
This article deals with the evolution of the economy of southern Greater Syria’s inland cities between the beginning of the 7th c. and the end of the Umayyads. Its purpose is to demonstrate that the economy of this region leaned towards a form of ‘localism’ in the 6th to 7th c., and later experience...
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2013
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