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Christian Mediterranean ports were open to Muslim traders in the Middle Ages
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Multiple historical sources confirm that Christian Mediterranean ports and commercial centers engaged in active trade and maintained commercial treaties with Muslim merchants and ports during the Middle Ages.

Evidence for · 5
Book: Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003)
2017 · cited by 0
Shows Muslim Spanish ports in contact with Christian commercial centers like Genoa, Pisa, and Catalonia.
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More for · 4
Book: Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe
2005 · cited by 0
Notes trading relationships between Muslims and Christians in Mediterranean ports like Venice and Genoa.
Reti Medievali Rivista: Two hegemonies, one island: Cyprus as a “Middle Ground” between the Byzantines and the Arabs (650-850 A.D.)
2013 · cited by 0
Indicates early medieval commercial relations between the Byzantine Empire and the Umayyad Caliphate.
OpenAIRE: Ifrîqiyan muslim merchants in the Mediterranean at the end of the middle ages
1999 · cited by 0
Notes that Ifrîqiyan Muslim merchants traded with Christian cities like Majorca and Valencia.
OpenAIRE: Venice and Florence in the Mamluk commercial privileges
1965 · cited by 0
Discusses commercial treaties between Muslim rulers and Christian states of southern Europe.
Everything we examined (23)
  1. Book: Medieval Iberiareferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Book: Routledge Revivals: Medieval Iberia (2003)referencesupports
  3. Book: Hidden Interests in Credit and Financereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Book: The Christopher Columbus Encyclopediareferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Book: Piety and Family in Early Modern Europereferencesupports
  6. Book: Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious, Political, 1100-1550referencesupportsnot shown: beyond the two books we show per side
  7. Cambridge University Press: Cross-cultural trade in world historyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Cambridge University Press: Housing the stranger in the Mediterranean world : lodging, trade, and travel in late antiquity and the Middle Agesreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Cambridge University Press: Origins of the European economy : communications and commerce, A.D. 300-900referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Pearson/Longman: Crusading and the crusader statesreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Pearson Prentice Hall: A history of the Muslim world since 1260 : the making of a global communityreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Morrow: A Mediterranean feastreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. W.W. Norton: Worlds together, worlds apart : a history of the world from the beginnings of humankind to the presentreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Internet Archive: Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Volume 11 : Scandinavian languages-Textiles, Islamicreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  15. Wikisource: The Cambridge Modern History/Volume I/Chapter Ireferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. Wikisource: The Cambridge Modern History/Volume I/Chapter XVreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  17. Wikisource: The Vanished Empire/Book 2referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. American Journal of Islam and Society: The Muslim Discovery of Europepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. Reti Medievali Rivista: Two hegemonies, one island: Cyprus as a “Middle Ground” between the Byzantines and the Arabs (650-850 A.D.)peer-reviewedsupports
  20. OpenAIRE: Ifrîqiyan muslim merchants in the Mediterranean at the end of the middle agespeer-reviewedsupports
  21. OpenAIRE: Venice and Florence in the Mamluk commercial privilegespeer-reviewedsupports
  22. OpenAIRE: Crossroadspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  23. wheeling compiler (wheeling, va. [i.e. w. va.]) 1829-1831: wheeling compiler (wheeling, va. [i.e. w. va.]) 1829-1831referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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