Roman started following the work of Marek Jankowiak, University of Oxford, The Khalili Research Centre.
Roman started following the journal Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta.
Roman started following the work of Mohamed Hamdy, Helwan University, Archaeology and Civilization.
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The greatest obstacle to using dirham (Islamic silver coin) hoards as a source for the study of medieval Afro-Eurasian history has been the lack of a single, comprehensive catalogue describing all the hoards deposited throughout all of western and central Eurasia and North Africa during the Early and High Middle Ages. From the mid-1970s, the late Professor Thomas S. Noonan (1938-2001) of the University of Minnesota began to remedy this situation by initiating the compilation of such a corpus. I joined him to work on this catalogue in the mid-1990s, but had to take over the entire project with Thomas’ passing in 2001. Presently, my main academic objective is to finish and publish the catalogue which will be entitled Dirham Hoards from Medieval Western Eurasia, c. 700-c. 1100 [Commentationes De Nummis Saeculorum IX-XI in Suecia Repertis. Nova series 13]. It will contain information on some 1680 dirham hoards with a total of about half a million dirhams discovered from Ireland in the west to Afghanistan in the east and from Norway in the north to Oman in the south. It is hoped that this corpus will constitute a major research tool that will be of use to Islamic numismatist, Slavicists, Viking researchers, Iberianists, and specialists on medieval western Europe and the world of Islam. If the present reader is aware of any dirham hoards discovered and/or published over the past five years, I would be most appreciative to learn something about them.
Other projects that I am actively working on include the study of imitation dirhams which appear to have been issued by the Rus’ Grand Princess Olga (d. 969), and their significance for the economic, political, and religious history of early Russia [for one such example, see the coin image on my main academia.edu page].
More passively, I am continuing work on the subject of medieval Islamic mints and their dirham outputs, as well as the circulation of dirhams in the northern lands of western Eurasia in the ninth through the eleventh centuries.
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