中世纪阿拉伯客栈的“全球性”浅析

An Analysis of the"Globality"of the Medieval Arabian Funduq

近年来一些学者尝试从全球史视角来考察中世纪。抛开概念上的争论不谈,不同文明间的交流作为全球史的核心概念之一,在中世纪确有各种体现。其中阿拉伯世界的“客栈”就是能直观反映这一现象的空间载体:它是当时各国商人、旅人居住的重要场所之一,见证了以商业为主的各种交互活动,既作为中转站起到支撑起长途旅行的作用,也具有文化交流的象征意义。阿拉伯客栈的产生与繁荣也同样脱离不了这种东西方交往、游牧民族与定居民族碰撞的时代背景,带有全球性的色彩。

In recent years,some scholars have tried to analyse the Middle Ages by the methodology of global history.Despite some conceptual disputes,the interaction among different cultures,which is one of the core features of global history,did exist at that time.For example,as a kind of inn in Arab countries,funduq can directly prove this phenomenon because merchants and travelers from all over the world need to live there to communicate and trade with each other.So funduq not only plays an important role in long-distance trade as rest areas,but also has the symbolic significance of cultural exchange.What’s more,the emergence and prosperity of funduq have close connection with the interaction between east and west and the collision of nomadic and sedentary peoples,which also mean globalization.