funduk Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... ( fondaco ) The funduk , an institution of Arabic origin, became widespread throughout the great merchant cities and at the trading posts of the *Hanse merchants. It offered foreign merchants lodging and shelter for their goods, with services including stables, bake-ovens, and a place of worship. Gatherings at the funduk aided tax collection and surveillance. See also taxation ; trade and commerce: mediterranean european . Jean-Claude Hocquet O. R. Constable , Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late...
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Fès Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... ( Fez ) Islamic city that has preserved most of its medieval aspect, with its walls, gates, souks, riads , * funduks ( fondaco ), palaces, and *madrasahs ; Morocco’s first capital, founded by Moulay *Idris II ( 809 ). Early Fès consisted of two towns: while one part hosted families who had fled *al-Andalus , the other attracted immigrants from *Kairouan ; while the first was home to the Jami al-Andalus *mosque , the second was the location of Jami al-Qarawiyyin, a mosque-university, making the city a centre of culture and learning. The two parts...
Market, covered Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
...Classical colonnades, for example at Aleppo (see Sauvaget). In Cairo, Aleppo and other major cities this linear arrangement was transformed into a grid of intersecting market streets, which linked commercial structures with courts ( see Istanbul , §III, F ). Enc. Islam/2 : “Funduḳ”; “Kayṣariyya”; “Khān” J. Sauvaget : Alep: Essai sur le développement d’une grande ville syrienne, des origines au milieu du XIXe siècle (Paris, 1941) E. Sims : “Trade and Travel: Markets and Caravanserai,” Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning ,...
nation and nationhood Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
...of the community. In some cases, they also involved *trading modalities and *tax exemptions. Merchant ‘nations’ often had distinctive locations with which they were associated (such as the *Hansa ’s *Steelyard in London) or to which they were restricted (the fundaco / * funduks of Italian traders in North Africa). Whether it served as a catalyst of political sentiment or as a means of contact management, nationality was routinely invoked where there was a need for at least two broadly similar but sufficiently contrasting and (to some degree)...
trade and commerce: Mediterranean European Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
...and then Arab ships. These convoys converged into European environs by way of the *Black Sea ports (Tana, Caffa, and Trebizond), either after a stop in *Basra or from *Medina , in Lajas, *Beirut , Tyre, or Alexandria. There, these products were stored in fondaco ( * funduk ), heavily taxed by local authorities, and sold to merchants coming from Amalfi in the 10th century, later from *Pisa and *Genoa , and, last, Venice. (After Pisa was defeated by Genoa, previously the two most powerful Italian republics before the 14th century, the Venetians...
Spain, Muslim Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...are the palace and gardens of the Generalife whose essential element is a long courtyard, the patio de la Acequia , ornamented with pools and jets of water, and framed by porticos bordered with beautiful 14th-c. rooms. The presence in Granada of various public buildings (a funduk , the Alhondiga nueva , a madrasa , a māristān ) or lunatic asylum) completes our information about the civic architecture of this period. The surrounding wall of the Alhambra, built in the reign of Yūsuf I, and the 22 frontier positions overhauled in the reign of Muhammad V,...
