A number of faculty members from the College of Education for Humanities, in collaboration with the College of Administration and Economics at the University of Basra, organized a scientific seminar on the history of the origins of money in ancient times. The seminar was held in the College of Administration and Economics auditorium and was attended by professors and students from both colleges.
The seminar aimed to highlight the stages that money has undergone, from the barter system to the emergence of coins and Islamic currency, while also explaining the economic and cultural transformations that accompanied these stages.
The seminar, presented by Dr. Abu Talib Zayed Khalaf, Dr. Alaa Radhi Falih, and Dr. Nada Khudair Jabr, included a historical overview of the most significant milestones in the development of money, beginning with barter and commodity money, moving through the minting of coins in Lydia and the Mesopotamian shekel, and concluding with the Arabization of currency during the reign of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.
This seminar is part of the ongoing scientific collaboration between the university's colleges, aimed at strengthening knowledge integration and the exchange of academic expertise across different disciplines
