Tokoh Perniagaan Islam Abul al-Qasim Ramisht (c.1150)
Seorang tokoh yang disebut namanya sebagai penyumbang kepada ketamadunan Islam adalah Abul al-Qasim Ramisht yang hidup sekitar 1150M. Beliau merupakan seorang saudagar yang amat kaya pada zamannya. Beliau juga banyak menyumbang belanja untuk merai jemaah Haji di kota Mekah. Pusat perniagaan Ramisht ialah di kota pelabuhan Siraf, Teluk Parsi.
Tidak banyak bahan bacaan dan artikel yang memfokus tentang beliau. Maka agak sukar untuk mengkaji tentang biografi Ramish. Apa yang diperolehi sekadar beberapa paragraf yang dipetik dari berbagai sumber. Salah satunya adalah di bawah (link):
The Postclassical Era, 500 to 1000 CE:
From the Hellenistic Mediterranean they borrowed the astrolabe, an instrument that enabled them to calculate latitude. Thus equipped Arab and Persian mariners ventured throughout the Indian Ocean basin, calling at ports from southern China to southeast Asia, Ceylon, India, Persia, Arabia, and the eastern coast of Africa.
The twelfth-century Persian merchant Ramisht of Siraf (a flourishing port city on the Persian Gulf) amassed a huge fortune from long-distance trading ventures. One of Ramisht's clerk once returned to Siraf from a commercial voyage to China with a cargo worth half a million dinars - gold coins that were the standard currency in Islamic world. Ramisht himself was one of the wealthiest men of his age, and he spent much of his fortune on pious causes. He out-fitted the Ka'ba with a Chinese silk cover that repotedly cost him eighteen thousand dinars. He also founded a hospital and a religious sanctuary in Mecca.
Petikan dari satu lagi sumber (link):
During this period the denizens of Sirāf were active in the maritime
trade as far east as China, and the best documented of the Sirāf
merchants, Ramisht (d. AH 537 / AD 1142), is said to have made a future
in the Indian trade, with some of which he endowed and embellished the
sanctuary at Mecca.
Suasana jalan raya sekitar kota Mekah
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