Les réseaux transsahariens de la traite de l’or et des esclaves au haut Moyen Âge : VIIIe-XIe siècle

The trans-Saharan gold and slave trade developed between the eighth and eleventh centuries, under the leadership of Ibadi Berbers. Berbers set up a large “schismatic screen” by creating large commercial cities: such as Zawîla, Wârgla, Tâhert, Sijilmâsa etc. They had a monopoly over the three main No...

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Main Author: Roger Botte
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Published: CNRS Éditions 2011-12-01
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description The trans-Saharan gold and slave trade developed between the eighth and eleventh centuries, under the leadership of Ibadi Berbers. Berbers set up a large “schismatic screen” by creating large commercial cities: such as Zawîla, Wârgla, Tâhert, Sijilmâsa etc. They had a monopoly over the three main North-South trans-Saharan routes linking the Maghreb to Africa. Simultaneously, an unbroken chain of Jewish communities settled almost exactly along the Ibadi schismatic arch-shaped path. The organization of trade flows required the existence of States or market towns at the north and south ends of each trans-Saharan axis as well as irreplaceable mutual complementarity between products from the North and those from the South. Logistical problems may have compromised the trade if it hadn’t been for the existence of oases between Sudan and the Maghreb. Signs converge to reveal that a slave trade was already in place by the mid-eighth century, but sources are discrete as to the number of slaves deported and their use.
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Les réseaux transsahariens de la traite de l’or et des esclaves au haut Moyen Âge : VIIIe-XIe siècle
L’Année du Maghreb
Berbers
slaves
Jews
Kharijites Ibadi
trans-Saharan
title Les réseaux transsahariens de la traite de l’or et des esclaves au haut Moyen Âge : VIIIe-XIe siècle
title_full Les réseaux transsahariens de la traite de l’or et des esclaves au haut Moyen Âge : VIIIe-XIe siècle
title_fullStr Les réseaux transsahariens de la traite de l’or et des esclaves au haut Moyen Âge : VIIIe-XIe siècle
title_full_unstemmed Les réseaux transsahariens de la traite de l’or et des esclaves au haut Moyen Âge : VIIIe-XIe siècle
title_short Les réseaux transsahariens de la traite de l’or et des esclaves au haut Moyen Âge : VIIIe-XIe siècle
title_sort les reseaux transsahariens de la traite de l or et des esclaves au haut moyen age viiie xie siecle
topic Berbers
slaves
Jews
Kharijites Ibadi
trans-Saharan
url https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/1106
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