World Hotels - Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 909 EAN: 9780521565035 ISBN: 0521565030 Label: Cambridge University Press Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 1996-07-13 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Studio: Cambridge University Press
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Editorial Reviews: This volume surveys Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century, with particular emphasis on commerce in the Muslim period and on changes brought by Christian conquest of much of Muslim Spain in the thirteenth century. From the tenth to the thirteenth century, markets in the Iberian peninsula were closely linked to markets elsewhere in the Islamic world, and a strong east-west Mediterranean trading network linked Cairo with Cordoba. Following routes along the North African coast, Muslim and Jewish merchants carried eastern goods to Muslim Spain, returning eastwards with Andalusi exports. Situated at the edge of the Islamic west, Andalusi markets were also emporia for the transfer of commodities between the Islamic world and Christian Europe. After the thirteenth century the Iberian peninsula became part of the European economic sphere, its commercial realignment aided by the opening of the Straits of Gibraltar to Christian trade, and by the contemporary demise of the Muslim trading network in the Mediterranean.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: GOOD BOOK TO WHOM IS INTERESTED IN THIS MATTER Comment: The muslims have been about eight centuries in Iberia . Some roots in the south remain .Of course they have lived with people of other religions , but it was not a paradise . They were more developed than the local people , in the agriculture , in the sciences , and architecture . By these reasons , they had relationship with the east , mainly Egipt , north Africa and some christian Countries . This helped , but it was not enough . This book is a very good help to understand some reasons of its so long presence . More Reviews