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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 7998769, member: 128351&quot;]In the first decades of Muslim rule in the Near East, Islam was the religion of the military but not of the civilians. When the cities surrendered to the Arab conquerors, all accepted to pay tribute and not convert to Islam. There was no common islamic law yet (it will be instated under the Abbassids), cities still followed Roman law. These Arab-Byz bronze fulus are not only Byzantine style, they are Christian money with conspicuous crosses, mainly minted for civilian use. Islamisation of coinage began when the Byzantine started to mint gold with Jesus&#039; portrait: gold was for the military and the authorities and these people were Muslims, they could not accept this. So they started to mint coins in gold and in bronze with the caliph&#039;s representation, and to eliminate crosses from the types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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