التجار الراذنية

التجار الراذنية

The Radhanite Jewish merchants of Ibn Khurdadhbih's register — speakers of Arabic, Persian, Greek, Frankish, Andalusi and Slavonic who travelled from East to West and back by land and sea, carrying slaves, brocade, beaver and sable furs and swords from Francia through Farama, across the twenty-five-farsakh portage to Qulzum, and down the eastern sea past al-Jar and Jeddah to Sind, India and China, returning with musk, aloes, camphor and cinnamon; their overland route ran al-Andalus–Tangier–Ifriqiya–Egypt–Ramla–Damascus–Kufa–Baghdad–Basra–Ahwaz–Fars–Kirman–Sind–India–China, with a northern alternative through the Slavs' lands to Khamlij the Khazar capital, the Caspian, Balkh and beyond the Oxus ¹.