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In this case he was merchant involved in business dealings around the Indian Ocean, so it’s not an unreasonable assumption. But the world he was moving in was *very* cosmopolitan—he would have had regular business dealings with people of many languages and religions.
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This isn’t my research field (it’s part of teaching the first-year world history survey), so I’m very much not up-to-date on the research.
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It’s not really a novel, but it’s not really a work of straight scholarship either.
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I’m not aware of any formal scholarship, but Amitav Ghosh wrote a book about him in the ’90s.