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Jewish trade letters with blessings for Muḥammad

Alternative title:
Trade letters from the Indian Ocean
Abstract:
This Document of the Month discusses a surprising phenomenon among the Cairo Geniza documents: the appearance of Muslim blessings for the prophet Muḥammad (the taṣliya) in two mercantile letters sent by twelfth-century Jewish traders in the Indian Ocean.
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Funder identifier:
https://ror.org/0472cxd90
Grant:
851607


Publisher:
Invisible East
Series:
Document of the Month
Place of publication:
Oxford
Publication date:
2026-05-26
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Paper number:
19


Language:
English
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Blog
Pubs id:
2424016
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pubs:2424016
Deposit date:
2026-05-27
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