1st Edition
Global Trade in the Early Medieval World The Movement of Wealth, Spice and Medicine, 700–1100
Introduction
1. The Historiography – what do we already know?
2. The forgotten accounts of China’s long history in the Islamic World
3. Early Medieval Indian Ocean Trade from 80-494 A.H./700-1100 A.D
4. Trade with Caliphs, theologians, and philosophers
5. Christendom and the Caliphate
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Toslima Khatun is a post- doctoral researcher and lecturer at King’s College London specialising in the politics around pandemics and public health. She has a dual discipline of History and Public Health Policy. She has a Masters in Medieval History and a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies focusing on the legacies of globalisation and what that has meant for the known world. Her other works include Making Health Public, A Manifesto for a New Social Contract where she outlines how we need to learn from the past.
