The Fatimids maintained trade relations with the Italian city-states like Amalfi and Genoa before the Crusades, according to the Cairo Geniza documents. A document dated 996 mentions Amalfian merchants living in Cairo. Another letter states that the Genoese had traded with Alexandria. The caliph al-Mustansir had allowed Amalfian merchants to reside in Jerusalem about 1060 in place of the Latin hospice.
The Fa.timids maintained trade relations with the Italian city-states like Amalfi and Genoa before the Crusades according to the Cairo Geniza documents. A document dated 996 mentions Amalfian merchants living in Cairo Another letter states that the Gen.oese h,ad traded with Alexandria. The caliph al-Mustansir had allowed Amalfian merchants to reside in Jerusalem about 1060 in place of the Latin hospice