India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza 'India Book' (hardcover)
- ISBN-10
- 9004154728
- ISBN-13
- 9789004154728
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 918
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Authors
- Shelomo Dov Goitein, Mordechai Friedman
Description
The annotated and translated letters of 11th-12th century traders of the Jewish Indian Ocean, found in the Cairo Geniza, provide fascinating information on commerce between the Far East, Yemen and the Mediterranean, medieval material, social, and spiritual civilization among Jews and Arabs, and Judeo-Arabic.
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