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In this article it is argued that Jewish travellers to China between 850 and 950 CE contributed to-and were the products of-a Judeo-Islamic culture, both in their mercantile activity and in the literary output that it spawned. It is argued that events in the Near East and in China in the late 9th and early 10th centuries had an irreversible effect on trade relations between the Near East (from which most Jewish traders of the time emanated) and China. The decline in trade missions to the Far East coincided with an eruption of literary activity in the Islamic world that encouraged works of 'fiction' and marvels. The travelogue of Eldad ha-Dānī is considered within this Arabo-Islamic context and reinterpreted accordingly. journal of jewish studies through the Indian Ocean. By the eighth or, at the very latest, the ninth century, the lands of Serinda and Sinae were recognised by inhabitants of the Near East as belonging to a single, unified Chinese empire. 4 The majority of world Jewry at this time lived under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, whose vast empire stretched from North Africa in the west to Central Asia in the east. Even the Jews of southern Spain, which was not part of

Author

Adam Silverstein

Publisher

Journal of Jewish Studies

Published

2007

Language

EN