1. Muslim Cities of the Post-Classical Age
... merchant Marco Polo's (Doc #5) picture of another prosperous city on the trade route, Tabriz, focuses more on the trading activities happening in the city, and from his perspective, commerce and manufactures made the merchants who probably came from all over the inside and outside of Muslim world in the city wealthy. But he also mentions that the inhabitants of Tabriz, in general, were poor, and that's where ... percent true and accurate. Therefore, it'd be nice to have a document from the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur writing from his perspective as to what role he intended the new capita...
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