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Amalfitans in the caliphate of Cordoba - or not?

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Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 125 - 138

Swansea University Author: Patricia Skinner Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/09503110.2012.684742

Abstract

Examines the eleventh-century evidence of Ibn Hayyan that Amalfitan merchants visited and traded at the court of Cordoba in the mid-tenth century. The article asks whether this isolated evidence of Amalfitans so far west can be relied upon, and sets the episode in a broader context of Italy-Spain co...

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Published in: Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean
Published: 2012
Online Access: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/calm/2012/00000024/00000002/art00001
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13432
Abstract: Examines the eleventh-century evidence of Ibn Hayyan that Amalfitan merchants visited and traded at the court of Cordoba in the mid-tenth century. The article asks whether this isolated evidence of Amalfitans so far west can be relied upon, and sets the episode in a broader context of Italy-Spain communications routes in this period.
Keywords: merchants, Cordoba, Amalfi, trade, silk
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue: 2
Start Page: 125
End Page: 138