Christian merchants in the Almohad cities

Abstract

The presence of Christian merchants in cities under Almohad rule raises important questions about their policy towards non‐Muslims. A series of commercial agreements ensured that Christian merchants could travel safely to the Maghrib, although relations periodically disintegrated, amid accusations of piracy by the Pisans and Genoese. In addition to treaties in Arabic, Latin and Italian, surviving evidence reveals that relations between the Almohads and the Norman kings of Sicily were healed around 1180. At the heart of these relationships lay the trade in grain from Sicily and in leather and other primary goods from North Africa.

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