Global Trade in the Early Medieval World

Auteur

Toslima Khatun is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at King's College London specialising in the politics around pandemics and public health. She has a dual discipline of History and Public Health Policy. She has a Masters in medieval history and a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies focusing on the legacies of globalisation and what that has meant for the known world. Her other works include Making Health Public, A Manifesto for a New Social Contract where she outlines how we need to learn from the past.

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Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Carolingian elites.

Contenu

Introduction 1. The Historiography - what do we already know? 2.The forgotten accounts of China's long history in the Islamic World 3.Early Medieval Indian Ocean Trade from 80-494 A.H./700-1100 A.D 4. Trade with Caliphs, theologians, and philosophers 5.Christendom and the Caliphate Conclusion Bibliography