العلاقات التجارية بين الهند و الساحل الشرقي الأفريقي من القرن الرابع الهجري حتى نهاية القرن السادس العاشر الميلادي حتى نهاية القرن الثاني عشر

Abstract EN

India's commercial relations with Africa's eastern coast are deeply rooted in history because both needed each other's products and because Arab merchants were the ones who discovered Africa's eastern coast harbours and have since become trade intermediaries between India and Africa's eastern coast.

Due to their mediatory role, Arab merchants became rich as they used to get many of the products they needed from the coast despite the fact that the indigenous merchants knew nothing about these products.

Later Arab immigrants started heading there.

Indian merchants also managed to strike it rich through their dealings with Africa's eastern coast.

Commercial exchanges with the coast then were mainly focused on trading in goods themselves.

This led to the flourishing of trade between the two sides.

Africa's eastern coast had harbours that facilitated trading activities for the merchants.

This was coupled by the attention given to trading activities by rulers, which made their activities comfortable.