Download or read book India Traders of the Middle Ages written by Shelomo Dov Goitein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.