آداب الرافدين (Mar 1981)
Financial resources in the Armenian region during Arab rule 210 AH / 652 AD - 247 AH / 865 AD
Abstract
Armenian occupies a privileged position in relation to the Arab Islamic state, as it is located on the outskirts of the Levant and the Jazira, and that this location secures these regions from the attacks of the Byzantines, especially after their liberation, and he is the one who pushed the Arabs to liberate this region from Sasanian and Byzantine control and that was in the year 31 AH / 653 m. This region continued under Arab sovereignty until the middle of the third century AH. Historical studies have appeared on the liberation of Arabs for this region, and some historians have studied the administrative, economic and social conditions of its inhabitants. However, no one touched upon studying its financial resources that constitute the income of the house of money during the aforementioned period, and it did not receive the necessary attention to it, and this is what prompted me to Addressing and researching the topic. What should be noted here is that the Arab sources provided only brief information about the region’s financial resources, and most of them were reported incidentally while talking about the Arabs ’liberation of it. This information is represented in the covenants and agreements that Arab leaders concluded with its princes and indicated in its body financial matters related to freedom And the abscess and other matters branching from it. These documents have been carefully examined and taken from them related to the research and studied by a historical study based on analysis and conclusion to form a clear and complete picture of the research. The multiple narratives provided by the Arabic references are not sufficient to build the research, and they contain a lot of missing information that forms a great void, so I have sought help from some studies of Armenian historians, including, for example, Groset and Basler Magian. . Djan and others, to form a picture on this subject, but I found that these sources reflect a purely constructed viewpoint, and for this I tried to subject the Armenian texts to analysis and discuss the notes contained in them and compare that with what we provide from other sources? As for the other issues about which Arab and Armenian historians do not provide clear information, I referred to the most important matters that we relate to through the many questions that the researcher can answer.
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