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Leiden: Brill, 2008. First edition. Thick octavo. xxix, (1), 918pp. Including 15 color plates and 3 maps at rear. Index and 22 page bibliography. Lime green buckram lettered in white. Further illustrated with a Lebdi genealogical table. A fine, as new copy. The India trade in Oriental spices, pharmaceutical, dyeing and other materials was the backbone of medieval economy, especially in the Islamic world. A unique source of documentation is now available in 11th-12th century Geniza letters, written in Judeo-Arabic (Middle Arabic in Hebrew characters), by participants in this activity. The documents are presented in translation with an introduction and notes. They deal with economic history and material, social, and spiritual civilization. Besides illuminating the activities of the Jewish traders of the Indian Ocean and their families in the territories from the Far East to southern Arabia and Egypt, the letters contain valuable information on Jewish and Islamic culture, relations between Jews and…
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India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza 'India Book' Hardcover - 2006
by Shelomo Dov Goitein; Mordechai Friedman
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- Title India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza 'India Book'
- Author Shelomo Dov Goitein; Mordechai Friedman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition annotated editio
- Pages 948
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill, Leiden
- Date 2006
- ISBN 9789004154728 / 9004154728
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- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006101956
- Dewey Decimal Code 382.089
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2008, Page 116
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