William of Adam, How to Defeat the Saracens (De modo Sarracenos extirpandi)

Crusade proposal by a Dominican who had sailed the Indian Ocean: Egypt's wealth comes from the Indian trade through Aden, which galleys in the Gulf of Aden could cut off; notes on India, its islands and the merchants of the Indian Ocean.

Language

Latin

Date

1316–1317 CE

Author

Guillelmus Adae

Place

ʿAdan (Aden)

Text

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