India traders of the middle ages: documents from the Cairo Geniza : "India book"

About the Author S. D. Goitein (1900-1985) was the world's preeminent Geniza scholar. His publications include the seminal six-volume A Mediterranean Society. Mordechai A. Friedman, Ph.D. (1969), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of Geniza Studies at Tel-Aviv University. His most recent book is Maimonides, the Yemenite Messiah and Apostasy. Product Description 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.