Sentence examples for arab merchant from inspiring English sources

Sitting at the tables behind them are men from the Arab merchant class and their bejeweled girlfriends.

"This will make the people more hostile against them," Muhammad al-Rahal, a 42-year-old Arab merchant, said of public reaction to the shootings.

The prudery and solemnity of Arab merchant life, the stately procession from shop to mosque to bath and back again, is subject to violent disruption by a flash of black eyes from behind a lattice or the sudden appearance of a demon.

SUNKEN ARAB TREASURE Around the year 840 an Arab merchant's sailboat loaded with Chinese ceramics, spices and gold foundered near a coral reef off the Sumatran coast.

The Portuguese were outraged by the attack on the factory and the death of their comrades and seized 10 Arab merchant ships at anchor in the harbor.

In 851 the Arab merchant Sulaiman al-Tajir observed the manufacturing of Chinese porcelain in Guangzhou and admired its transparent quality.

Each year on Jerusalem Day, as many as fifty thousand youth now descend on the Old City to bully Arab merchants.

Much of it was driven by the Middle Eastern market, with Arab merchants bringing Africans into Persia and the Mediterranean.

Although Arab merchants called here in centuries past, Yiwu had virtually no Muslims till about 2000, when Middle Eastern traders were drawn to its burgeoning market.

The island and its natural harbour were used by Arab merchants as a maritime trading centre from the 10th to the late 15th century.

Arab merchants have long sold silks and other merchandise along its narrow streets; fashionable boutiques have opened in the area recently as well, making for an eclectic mix.