book À Abrahams Luggage È Elizabeth Lambourn

An and South Asia in the Middle Ages Drawing on a close reading of this uniue twelfth century document found in the Cairo Genizah and written in India by North African merchant Abraham Ben Yiju Lambourn focuses on the domestic material culture and foods that structured the daily life of such India tra

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Abrahams LuggageFrom a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a component of broader trade connections that developed between the Islamic Mediterrane