Islamic trade and commerce

Silk Road

• Goods circulated in the Byzantine and early Islamic Middle East along trade networks at the juncture of several continents and bodies of water. Although the region’s best known routes were those running between Europe and Asia at the western edge of the Silk Road.

luxuries

• Luxurious silks, spices, incense, and the like counted among the Byzantine and early Islamic period's most desired goods. Silk was particularly prized by both the Byzantine and Sasanian courts.

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• Significant quantities of it outside the Middle East attest to the material's inherently high value and to the reach of its appeal.

Red Sea

• one of the earliest caravan routes led along the Red Sea coast of Arabia. It was at the intersection of this "incense route", and another important route - leading from Iraq to Yemen - that the pre-Islamic Mecca arose to prominence. .

cites

• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/coin/hd_coin.htm
• https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~blackrse/islam.html