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Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port: India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Genizal "India Book."

Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port: India Traders... Roxani Eleni MARGARITI. Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiii + 343 pp., clothbound. ISBN: 978-0-8078- 3076-5; and S. D. GOITEIN and Mordechai A. FRIEDMAN, India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza/“India Book . ” Leiden [etc.]: Brill [etc.]: Th e Ben-Zvi Institute, 2008. xxx + 898 pp., hardback. ISBN: 978-90-04-15472-8. In her book Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port , Roxani Eleni Margariti explains that the mawāsim , or “port-specifi c sailing seasons,” dictated optimal arrival and departure periods for each of the principal ports of the Indian Ocean (pp. 38-39). In her analysis, the concentration of shipping and commerce at these times “must have meant periods of intense activity from late August on, followed by somewhat of a lull starting in May” (p. 41). It would seem, then, that the scholarly study of the Indian Ocean trade itself has entered its mawsim , with the publication of two important works in the fi eld: fi rst, Margariti’s own work; and, second, the joint http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port: India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Genizal "India Book."

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Brill
Copyright
© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4995
eISSN
1568-5209
DOI
10.1163/156852009X405393
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Roxani Eleni MARGARITI. Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiii + 343 pp., clothbound. ISBN: 978-0-8078- 3076-5; and S. D. GOITEIN and Mordechai A. FRIEDMAN, India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza/“India Book . ” Leiden [etc.]: Brill [etc.]: Th e Ben-Zvi Institute, 2008. xxx + 898 pp., hardback. ISBN: 978-90-04-15472-8. In her book Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port , Roxani Eleni Margariti explains that the mawāsim , or “port-specifi c sailing seasons,” dictated optimal arrival and departure periods for each of the principal ports of the Indian Ocean (pp. 38-39). In her analysis, the concentration of shipping and commerce at these times “must have meant periods of intense activity from late August on, followed by somewhat of a lull starting in May” (p. 41). It would seem, then, that the scholarly study of the Indian Ocean trade itself has entered its mawsim , with the publication of two important works in the fi eld: fi rst, Margariti’s own work; and, second, the joint

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Published: Jan 1, 2009

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