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Show 61 the c declining - Abbasid caliphate but also with the the center of world commerce, as disappearance of the Jewish merchants, called 150 Radaniyyah by the Muslims. informs that these Jewish merchants who knew us Khurdadhbih, writing in 256/870, Ibn Arabic, Persian, Greek, Frankish, Spanish, and the Slavonic languages, traveled gu1ar1y between the Eastern Western countries and Western countries. they imported slaves, furs, change for Oriental luxuries such as silk, musk, camphor, aloes-wood, cinnamon, etc. of France and traveled by sea went overland from Ceuta to to Egypt 151 were from the south and then to India. . S1an no G u If & ,,152 thence via Baghdad (al-Karimiyyah)154 150These specializing route from to the Per- However, since the fourth/tenth century, there is ,,153 foreign middlemen out" the Karimites Others to the Indus. mention 'of them, for nthe rise of Muhammadan marine drove the ex- amber, pearls, gems, Egypt and from Syria proceeding in and swods They re- From the "Often," remarked Adam Mez, "they preferred the overland Antioch to the Euphrates, !!: in a 151Abu al-Qasim CUbayd -due- to-the rise- of kind of Jewish eight but precious imports MasalIk wa-al-Mamalik, was ----_ Egypt presumably since the in Radanites formed Th'is cormnerce as corporation mentioned below. Allah Ibn Khurdadhbih, Kitab a1- (Leidena E.' J. Brilli Goeje& 1967), pp. 153-l55. See also Labfb, Handelsgeschichte Ag tens, p. Sa Adz S. Atiya, Crusade, Commerce and Culture Bloomington. Indi ana University Press, 1962), PP. 196-197, Mez, p. 471, and Kramers, "Geography and Commerce," p. 102. ed, by M. H. de " 152 Mez, p. 471. " , ,) 153Ibid., and Atiy., p. 197. 'j 154These Karimites became kind a of Muslim corporation in massive imports such as pepper, spices, cotton,. ivory, eboygetcG from Asia and Africa. specializing I: I' |
