TY  - BOOK
AU  - Margariti,Roxani Eleni
TI  - Aden & the Indian Ocean trade: 150 years in the life of a medieval Arabian port 
T2  - Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
SN  - 9781469606712
AV  - DS247.A27 M37 2007eb
U1  - 382.095335 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Shipping
KW  - Yemen (Republic)
KW  - Aden
KW  - History
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Exports & Imports
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - International
KW  - General
KW  - Marketing
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - International Relations
KW  - Trade & Tariffs
KW  - Commerce
KW  - fast
KW  - Seehandel
KW  - gnd
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Aden (Yemen)
KW  - Indian Ocean Region
KW  - Indien, Région de l'océan
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Indischer Ozean
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index; The physical entrepôt. The environment ; Topography of the harbor ; Topography of the port city -- The commercial entrepôt. The customshouse ; Ships and shipping ; Mercantile and legal services; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - "Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs. Approaching Aden's history between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries through the prism of overseas trade and commercial culture, Roxani Eleni Margariti examines the ways in which physical space and urban institutions developed to serve and harness the commercial potential presented by the city's strategic location." "Utilizing historical and archaeological methods, Margariti draws together a variety of sources far beyond the normative and relatively accessible legal rulings issued by Islamic courts of the time. She explores environmental, material, and textual data, including merchants' testimonies from the medieval documentary repository known as the Cairo Geniza. Her analysis brings the port city to life, detailing its fortifications, water supply, harbor, customshouse, marketplaces, and ship-building facilities. She also provides a broader picture of the history of the city and the ways merchants and administrators regulated and fostered trade." "Margariti ultimately demonstrates how port cities, as nodes of exchange, communication, and interconnectedness, are crucial in Indian Ocean and Middle Eastern history as well as Islamic and Jewish history. Her study challenges conventional ideas of trade networks based solely on religious and ethnic affiliation and contributes to a larger understanding of trading systems, the intertwining of medieval religions and culture, and the shape of a whole society."--Jacket
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