02159nam a22003377a 4500 20220629113620.0 220629b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781316626276 ;Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 :ZBD0276 :25/06/2022 382.091 LAM Lambourn, Elizabeth Abraham's Luggage : a social life of things in the medieval Indian ocean world / Elizabeth Lambourn New York :Cambridge University Press, ©2018 xvi, 301p : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. 3186 Asian connections (Series) A Mediterranean society in Malibarat -- A Mediterranean society of sea. From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a component of broader trade connections that developed between the Islamic Mediterranean and South Asia in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a close reading of this unique twelfth-century document, found in the Cairo Genizah and written in India by North African merchant Abraham Ben Yiju, Lambourn focuses on the domestic material culture and foods that structured the daily life of such India traders, on land and at sea. This is an exploration of the motivations and difficulties of maintaining homes away from home, and the compromises that inevitably ensued. 'Abraham's Luggage' demonstrates the potential for writing challenging new histories in the accidental survival of apparently ordinary ephemera Commerce, Commerce, communications and transportation International commerce (Foreign trade) Cairo Genizah. India -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500. Commerce -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500. Commerce -- Medieval. Jewish merchants. Middle East. Cairo Genizah. Lambourn, Elizabeth BOOK 59445 59445 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2022-06-29 Zafaa Books & Distributors 3186.00 0 382.091 LAM 28785 2022-06-29 00:00:00 2022-06-29 BOOK