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The Barmaqi Family That Managed the Abbasid Silk Road
Before the Abbasid Caliphate's golden age of trade, a single family of Persian Buddhist administrators rose to control the empire's entire commercial and fiscal apparatus. The Barmakids — or Barmaqi in Arabic — were former custodians of the silk road's most famous Buddhist monastery at Balkh. When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads, the Barmakids brought their deep knowledge of Central Asian trade networks, Sogdian merchants, and caravan logistics to Baghdad. For over half a century, under Caliphs al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, and Harun al-Rashid, Yahya al-Barmaki and his sons ran the…
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