Byzantine Maritime Trade with The East (4th - 7th centuries)

Mango, Marlia Mundell

doi:10.2143/aram.8.1.2002190

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“…Growth in trade during the seventh century is evident from increasing monetisation (Banaji 2006), even if the distribution and dating of Sasanian coin finds in the region remain inconclusive (Kennet 2008). The activities of East Syrian traders in the Indian Ocean are well known thanks both to the captivating account of Cosmas Indicopleustes (Mundell Mango 1996) and extensive evidence for connections between the inhabitants of Fars and the Gulf with India, such as the Pahlavi inscriptions from Chennai now dated to the ninth century (Gropp 1991; Cereti 2009). However, the myth of the ‘Nestorian trader’ is belied by these inscriptions, which reveal how profoundly interwoven Christian, Zoroastrian and Jewish trading communities were.…”

Section: Dinars and Date Palmsmentioning

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Monks, dinars and date palms: hagiographical production and the expansion of monastic institutions in the early Islamic Persian Gulf

Payne¹

2011

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

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Der Weg in die Wüste war der radikalste dichterische Akt… Peter Sloterdijk, Weltfremdheit Recent archaeological studies have documented an expansion of monastic institutions in the Persian Gulf after the Islamic conquest, between the middle of the seventh and the end of the eighth centuries. Although the literary sources have often been invoked to support an earlier dating for the diffusion of coenobitic monasticism in the region, our principal source for the phenomenonthe History of Mar Yonan, hitherto misdated to the fourth centuryconfirms recent archaeologically informed interpretations. The narrative, moreover, provides an insight into the social and economic structures of monasticism in the seventh-and eighth-century Persian Gulf as well as the ideological conflicts that attended the emergence of those structures.

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Section: Dinars and Date Palmsmentioning

confidence: 99%