Book in Polish by Tomasz Barański. Monografia przybliża historię archipelagu Dahlak położonego na Morzu Czerwonym u wybrzeży Erytrei. Na podstawie źródeł pisanych (greckich, arabskich, judeoarabskich, etiopskich, tureckich i portugalskich) oraz badań prowadzonych na stanowisku archeologicznym Dahlak Kebir (w tym arabskich inskrypcji nagrobnych pochodzących z wysp) autor analizuje charakter polityczny i gospodarczy Dahlaku, VII–XVI wiek.

Pirates or Sultans? Dahlak Kebir as a Trade and Political Centre in the Red Sea Between the 7th and 16th Century

The monograph shows the history of the Dahlak Archipelago, located in the Red Sea, near Eritrea. On the basis of written sources (Greek, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, Ethiopian, Turkish and Portuguese) and the research conducted at the Dahlak Kebir archeological site (including Arabic funerary inscriptions from the island), the author analyses political and economic nature of Dahlak between the 7 th and 16th century.