India Traders of the Middle Ages (Paperback 2 Vol. Set): Documents from the Cairo Geniza 'India Book'

by S.D. Goitein, Mordechai A. Friedman

The annotated and translated letters of 11th-12th century traders of the Jewish Indian Ocean, found in the Cairo Geniza, provide fascinating information on commerce between the Far East, Yemen and the Mediterranean, medieval material, social, and spiritual civilization among Jews and Arabs, and Judeo-Arabic.

Genres: Nonfiction

918 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Shelomo Dov Goitein, who was associated with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University at the time of his death in 1985, was honored with the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Society and the National Jewish Book Award for A Mediterranean Society. Teacher, administrator, and prolific writer, he was a preeminent scholar in the areas of Jewish-Arab relations and Islamic culture.