However, historian Jere L. Bacharach claims it was al-Walid's son, Al-Abbas, who was responsible for Anjar's founding circa 714 CE.
The Library also has a large collection of medieval Arabic coins from as early as AD 696, which were published by Stanley Lane-Poole, Bernhardt Moritz and recently by Norman D. Nicol, Jere L. Bacharach and Rifa'at al-Nabarawy (1982).
The latter appeared as “Islamic History through Coins” Cairo: AUC Press, 2006, which was the co-winner of the 2007 Samir-Shamma-Prize of the Royal Numismatic Society of Great Britain for the best book in Islamic numismatics during the preceding two years.
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While the establishment of the madina ("city") of Anjar ("Ayn al-Jarr") in the Beqaa Valley is normally attributed to al-Walid I, other sources, including the Byzantine Greek chronicler Theophanes the Confessor and contemporary historian Jere L. Bacharach, credit Abbas for the city's founding in the fall of 714.