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ISLAM AND THE SPICE TRADE: PROFIT AND PROPHECY IN THE GLOBAL MIDDLE AGES

Shipwrecks, smuggling, and… Islam? What if we retold the story of the spice trade—oft appreciated as a catalyst for Europe’s “Age of Discovery”—through the eyes of the late medieval Muslim merchants and scholars who mixed Islam and business across the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean? And what might the maritime corridor that linked the […]