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Muhammad Abu al-Faraj al-Ush

محمد أبو الفرج العش

Syrian numismatist, chief curator of the National Museum of Damascus, who published the study of the Umm Hajara silver hoard in 1972 1.

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Era
The Contemporary Era
Region
Levant & Iraq

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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Halim Mahmud

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Summary

Muhammad Abu al-Faraj al-Ush was a specialist in Islamic coins whose name appears on the title page of Kanz Umm Hajara al-fiddi (1972) as chief curator of the National Museum of Damascus. 1

His work on the hoard

He undertook the study of the Umm Hajara hoard, which the security services handed to the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums in 1970; he says its Arab-Sasanian group, containing pieces "rare and unique in the world", drew him to it, and that he published it to encourage the officers and citizens who reported it to cooperate with the antiquities authorities in protecting the heritage. 2 He ends his foreword hoping to go on publishing what he had gathered in the field and asking Arab and foreign colleagues to point out his errors. 3

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Authored
The Umm Hajara Silver Hoard (al-Ush)

People and things also explored

Arab-Byzantine and Arab-Sasanian coinage· Umm Hajara silver hoard· Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a· The Umm Hajara Silver Hoard (al-Ush)· Al-Madina Souq, Aleppo· Bazaar of Tabriz· Khan el-Khalili· Al-Hamidiyah Souq

Sources

  1. Muhammad Abu al-Faraj al-Ush, Kanz Umm Hajara al-fiddi [The Umm Hajara silver hoard: Sasanian, Arab-Sasanian, Umayyad, Abbasid, in the National Museum, Damascus], 1st ed., Damascus: Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums, 1972 , p. 1
  2. Muhammad Abu al-Faraj al-Ush, Kanz Umm Hajara al-fiddi [The Umm Hajara silver hoard: Sasanian, Arab-Sasanian, Umayyad, Abbasid, in the National Museum, Damascus], 1st ed., Damascus: Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums, 1972 , p. 5
  3. Muhammad Abu al-Faraj al-Ush, Kanz Umm Hajara al-fiddi [The Umm Hajara silver hoard: Sasanian, Arab-Sasanian, Umayyad, Abbasid, in the National Museum, Damascus], 1st ed., Damascus: Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums, 1972 , p. 2
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad Abu al-Faraj al-Ush”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-abu-al-faraj-al-ush/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.

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Arab-Byzantine and Arab-Sasanian coinage

The coins struck in early Islam on Byzantine and Sasanian models with added Arabic phrases, from Umar ibn al-Khattab to Abd al-Malik's Arabisation of 77–78 AH, as Farajallah Ahmad Yusuf describes them.