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Article: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port: Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2009
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150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port: Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade. By Roxani Eleni Margariti. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 344. $55.00.)
In this book, the author gives a portrait of medieval Aden and traces its development under the Zurayid and Ayyubid dynasties, from the late fifth/eleventh century to the early decades of the seventh/thirteenth century. The author divides the book into two parts: the city's physical world and its commercial institutions. The first section, "The Physical Environment," covers the environment, the topography of the harbor, and the typography of the port city; and the ...