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Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic countries at that time, records of only the Jewish community survive. Thousands of documents were preserved in the Cairo Geniza, a lumber room attached to the synagogue where discarded writings containing



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Author's Note, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xiv*CHAPTER I. Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. Geographical Setting, pg. 23*CHAPTER III. The Eleventh Century, pg. 73*CHAPTER IV. Merchant-Banker, Scholar, and Communal Leader, pg. 145*CHAPTER V. The India Traders, pg. 175*CHAPTER VI. Twelfth Century and Later, pg. 231*CHAPTER VII. Accounts, pg. 273*CHAPTER VIII. Travel and Transport, pg. 305*List of Geniza Texts Translated, pg. 341*Index, pg. 343*Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, pg. 360

Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691618777, 978-0691618777
      ISBN10: 0691618771

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic countries at that time, records of only the Jewish community survive. Thousands of documents were preserved in the Cairo Geniza, a lumber room attached to the synagogue where discarded writings containing



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Author's Note, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xiv*CHAPTER I. Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. Geographical Setting, pg. 23*CHAPTER III. The Eleventh Century, pg. 73*CHAPTER IV. Merchant-Banker, Scholar, and Communal Leader, pg. 145*CHAPTER V. The India Traders, pg. 175*CHAPTER VI. Twelfth Century and Later, pg. 231*CHAPTER VII. Accounts, pg. 273*CHAPTER VIII. Travel and Transport, pg. 305*List of Geniza Texts Translated, pg. 341*Index, pg. 343*Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, pg. 360

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