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The Impact of Islam On the Silk Road
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Series: History for All
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ISBN10: 1787956598
ISBN13: 9781787956599
Publisher: Global East-West (London)
Published: Mar 19 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781787956599
Publisher: Global East-West (London)
Published: Mar 19 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Impact of Islam on the Silk Road provides an analytically rich and detailed narrative of the way Islamic civilisation transformed Eurasian connectivity during the 7th-14th centuries.Beyond the conventional accounts which concentrate on commodities or conquest, the book is based on the argument that Islam essentially re-engineered the Silk Road by changing the institutions that were behind it. Political unification, a shared currency, legal systems, and investment in infrastructure helped Islamic polities to lower transaction costs and enhance the trustworthiness of long-distance exchanges.
The work is divided into three historical periods: the early caliphal period, the Abbasid period and the later Turkic-Mongol world. All the phases show the collaboration of continuity and adaptation in correcting the network. Instead of developing new routes, the Islamic systems transformed incentives, governance and trust in the existing routes.Among the most important ones are the use of coinage and metrology as the price integrator, the formation of partnership contracts and credit instruments, and the growth of urban centres, like Baghdad, Bukhara and Samarkand, as trading and intellectual centres. Institutional change is also incorporated in the book, where material culture, including paper, textiles, and ceramics, is linked to change, demonstrating how production and exchange were similar.The work is based on a broad array of sources, such as numismatic evidence, Arabic and Chinese writings, and documentary archives, including the Cairo Geniza, which is why it is a synthesis of narratives and a methodologically rigorous work.This book is perfect to be read by scholars, students, and other readers who are interested in global history, economic systems, and cross-cultural exchange because it offers a subtle view of how large-scale networks operate and survive.
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