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The Radhanites: Jewish Merchants Who Webbed the Silk Road

The Radhanites: Jewish Merchants Who Webbed the Silk Road

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Before the great trading companies of the early modern era, a network of Jewish merchants known as the Radhanites connected East and West, carrying goods, ideas, and letters across the vast space between Frankish Europe and Tang China. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Radhanite trade routes described in the 9th-century Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Ibn Khordadbeh, an Abbasid official and intelligence director. They follow the four main itineraries the Radhanites traveled — from the Rhône valley to the Volga, from Baghdad to India and Indonesia, from Spain to Samarkand and beyond. They discuss how these merchants operated as linguists, financiers, and cultural intermediaries, fluent in Arabic, Persian, Romance, Greek, and even Chinese. The episode also touches on the Cairo Geniza documents that provide glimpses of Radhanite letters and contracts, and the debated question of whether the Radhanites were a formal guild or simply a loose network of Jewish traders. Along the way, Lucas and Luna connect the Radhanites to the Khazars, the Carolingian Empire, and the Abbasid Caliphate, showing how a small group of mobile merchants helped knit together the medieval world. #Radhanites #JewishMerchants #SilkRoad #IbnKhordadbeh #BookofRoadsandKingdoms #CairoGeniza #Khazars #AbbasidCaliphate #TangDynasty #MedievalTrade #VolgaTrade #IndianOceanTrade #LinguaFranca #JewishHistory #EconomicHistory #GlobalMiddleAges #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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