TY  - JOUR
T1  - Silk Trade from Ilkhanids to Aqqoyunlu
AU  - Mustafayev, Shahin 
JO  - Acta Via Serica
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016/1/1
DO  - 10.22679/AVS.2016.1.1.119
KW  - Silk trade
KW  - Chinese silk
KW  - Ilkhanids
KW  - Aqqoyunlu state
KW  - Tabriz
KW  - Shirvan
KW  - Gilan
KW  - silk fabrics
KW  - caravan routes
KW  - legislative code
KW  - Uzun Hasan
KW  - taxation
KW  - tamga
KW  - Azerbaijan
KW  - Persia
KW  - Bursa
KW  - Asia Minor
AB  - The initial phase of the Mongol invasion resulted in the establishment of relative political stability in the vast expanses of Eurasia, which came under the control of a single political entity - the Mongol realm. This contributed to a fairly rapid restoration of the commercial links and trade routes between the East and the West. During this period, Chinese silk again became available in large quantities in the Western markets. At the same time, the beginning of silk production and manufacturing of silk fabrics in Italy and the fashion flash for these goods in Western countries affected trade between Europe and the Muslim world. The centers of silk production in the Ilkhanid Empire were some provinces of Azerbaizan and Persia, where from it was exported in large numbers along the trade routes of Anatolia and Syria to the Mediterranean ports and further to the west. There are numerous testimonies of European travelers, and Muslim authors related the international silk trade in 13th-15th centuries, ie in the era from the Mongol Illkhanid Empire till the reign of the Turkman Aqqoyunlu dynasty. One of the most informative documentary sources on this issue are the legislative codes (kanuname) of sultan Uzun Hasan from the Aqqoyunlu dynasty regarding the eastern provinces of the Asia Minor. This article presents and analyzes the information from these documents concerning the whole range of goods related to silk and silk fabrics trade in the period under the consideration.