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This entirely depends on the era of the trade routes in question. In the early Islamic period, the trade routes were primarily between Arabian cities. When the Muslim empires began to occupy a much larger stretch of the world, these trade routes began to encompass the entire Middle East to India and Southeast Asia and much of East Africa as well. Muslim trade routes from North Africa crossed the Sahara into West Africa. The Mediterranean was also a bustling trade area between Muslim states and Christian ones in Europe.

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