Nope. They traded silks and pearls, salt, dates, ivory, frankensence and myrrh from the Indus Valley to Mesopotamia, Egypt, East Africa, the Levant . They traded with Herod and Pharaohs.What does that have to do with what we were saying? And to Muslims, trade relations were similar to those of the Vikings. Kill, steal, plunder.
You just don't know any history