Portrait of a medieval India trader: three letters from the Cairo Geniza
1987; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 50; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0041977x00039458
ISSN1474-0699
Autores Tópico(s)Eurasian Exchange Networks
ResumoThe first comprehensive survey of Geniza documents about the trade on the route to India was published by me in Speculum, A Journal of the American Medieval Academy, 29, 181–97, in April 1954. At that time I was able to give a report about 130 Geniza papers related in one way or another to the India trade. Soon after the article was published, a distinguished institution offered me the opportunity to publish the material in full. I accepted with enthusiasm and set feverishly to work. But slowly it dawned upon me that one should not try to solve problems by sagacity at a time when new sources that could provide factual answers to those problems might lurk around the corner
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