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Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World

Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World AL-MASĀQ BOOK REVIEW Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World,by Elizabeth A. Lambourn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 316pp, £78.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781107173880 In the 1130s and 40s, Abraham Ben Yiju, a Jewish merchant from Ifriqiya, lived on the Malabar Coast of south-west India, trading between there and the port city of Aden in Yemen. During two stints in Malabar, Abraham married a local woman and had three chil- dren, before moving his family back westward, first to Aden and then to Fustat. In leaving North Africa to live and work in the Indian Ocean, Abraham was far from alone among his contemporaries. Yet, a chance survival from his papers sheds light on the translation and adaptation of ways of living, eating, and practising religion in this foreign locale and at sea. Abraham’s Luggage at its core utilises this document: a record from 1149 of the 173 different items the merchant packed as he left Malabar for the last time. The list, written in Judaeo-Arabic and now held in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library, was originally published in the India Book, where his handwriting, recog- nised by S. D. Goitein, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masāq Taylor & Francis

Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World

Tearney-Pearce, J. E.
Al-Masāq , Volume 35 (1): 3 – Jan 2, 2023
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AL-MASĀQ BOOK REVIEW Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World,by Elizabeth A. Lambourn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 316pp, £78.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781107173880 In the 1130s and 40s, Abraham Ben Yiju, a Jewish merchant from Ifriqiya, lived on the Malabar Coast of south-west India, trading between there and the port city of Aden in Yemen. During two stints in Malabar, Abraham married a local woman and had three chil- dren, before moving his family back westward, first to Aden and then to Fustat. In leaving North Africa to live and work in the Indian Ocean, Abraham was far from alone among his contemporaries. Yet, a chance survival from his papers sheds light on the translation and adaptation of ways of living, eating, and practising religion in this foreign locale and at sea. Abraham’s Luggage at its core utilises this document: a record from 1149 of the 173 different items the merchant packed as he left Malabar for the last time. The list, written in Judaeo-Arabic and now held in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library, was originally published in the India Book, where his handwriting, recog- nised by S. D. Goitein,

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