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In addition to providing shelter, caravansaries were a place for merchants to meet other traders to exchange goods as well as share and spread Islamic ideas and traditions.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Royal and elite women often funded the construction or maintenance of caravansaries, demonstrating the value of trade to both the state and individual wealth.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The town of hundreds of madrassas and caravansaries, and 100 or so mosques, had been subjected to the only fate worse than Genghis Khan’s, that fifth horseman of the apocalypse: tourism.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

If this were the Sahara, caravansaries would have stopped by its green pools for thousands of years.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2020

In the caravansaries about the city, and within the palace naught else was talked of.

From Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore by Laughlin, Burren