Twenty years of discoveries for the Department of Ancient History, international scientific bodies and the Spanish archaeological team in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates).

  “Sargon, the king, laid in the port of Akkad the ships of Meloukha, Dilmun, and the ships of Majan.”

In the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century, our scientific teams, for the sake of humanity’s history, began to save the distant past of the Arabian Peninsula. The ancient texts of Mesopotamia seem to refer to some places when they evoked the foreign “land of Majan” with its black ships, wealth and people.

From the mid-1990s until today, research focused on the Oman Peninsula has finally revealed the life, environment and ancient history of Majan. In the central region of that country, where the Emirate of Sharjah is currently located, many important archaeological discoveries took place.

This exhibition works to reveal the recovered image of a forgotten era, thanks to the efforts of many international archaeological teams, the Sharjah Archaeology Authority (SAA) in the Emirate of Sharjah, and the Spanish archaeological team at Autonoma University in Madrid.

This book is considered an era of gold, a journey in the collection of Mr. Abdullah bin Jassim
Al-Mutairi, one of the most important books in the history of Islamic coins because it represents
a specialized academic scientific study of a group of coins kept in the collection of Mr. Abdullah
bin Jassim Al-Mutairi, and it is clear from the title of the book that all of them are gold coins that
represent The Islamic era since the time of the Messenger Muhammad, God’s prayers and
peace be upon him, until the fourteenth century Hijri, and it belongs to more than three
hundred families and countries established in the land of Islam throughout this long history of
Islamic civilization, and then the title of the book was chosen to be (an era of gold) to be a
witness to the greatness of Islamic civilization throughout fourteen years A century ago, and in
this era, the writer deals with the topic of the general critical context of the Islamic regions and
states (Morocco and Andalusia – Egypt and the Levant)

Coins are considered historical, cultural, and commercial documents, and their study will possibly shed
an important light on the conditions of the regions of the Arabian Peninsula during the past historical
periods, which are still waiting for more studies and research in this field. Describing and analyzing the
shapes, symbols, and inscriptions appearing on them provides valuable information about the people
who produced them, the societies that traded them, their political systems, their religious beliefs, their
economic livelihood, their commercial activities, and their international relationships.

We are honoured to propose this property in the Emirates of Shariah for inclusion on the ISESCO Islamic world Heritage List. The accompanying submission comprise of the historic town in the Heart of Shariah and Al Hisn ( Shariah Fort ) , that one served as the headquarter of Shariah Government and centre of justice and defence. We believe that these heritage sites share stories of international significance that exhibit Shariah as the first state in the region to sign an agreement with the British of this kind, thus establishing itself as the peaceful gateaway to the Trucial States

This book discusses mosques built during the Fatimid era in Mahdia,
Sirte, Ajdabiya, and Cairo, some of which remained intact and some
of which were altered, and it is based on a treatise originally titled
(Fatimid Mosques, Their History and Architecture). Given the
significance of the mihrab in mosque architecture, I included an
article titled “The Rightness in the Relationship Between the Mosque
and the Mihrab” that opened the book’s pages which were the
introduction pages of the book.

In the introduction to his book, the author discussed the concept of studying archaeological finds and the importance of placing them within the geographical, historical, and cultural contexts of the region in which they were discovered, as well as the role of heritage sources in the process of analyzing and studying the discovered antiquities. He devoted an important part of his research to discussing the issue of Arab, Islamic, and foreign coins that were in circulation at the time, in terms of the region’s political, practical, social, and economic importance, after being presented in detail to the review and discussion of various pottery and stone finds.

The author focused on the Abbasid group of dirhams, which were discovered inside a small Abbasid-style glazed jar. They were nine silver dirhams and one copper fil. It also contained five small square copper pieces of varying weights. These silver coins date back to the first Abbasid era, which dates back to 123-218 AH (750-833 AD).