Sīrāf - قيس
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“[A] port of the Persian Gulf which flourished in the early Islamic centuries as one of the main commercial centres of the Gulf, rivalling Baṣra. It lay on the coast of Fārs, near the modern village of Ṭāhirī, some 200 km/125 miles to the southeast ¶ of Bushire (Bū S̲h̲ahr [q.v.]), in the garmsīr or hot region of the sīf or coasdand.” 2
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 27.670345° Long. 52.33683°3
Descriptions
“فيأخذ الجوهر في دينه أو ما وجب له منه، ثم سافرنا من سيراف إلى مدينة البحرين، وهي مدينة كبيرة حسنة ذات بساتين وأشجار وأنهار، وماؤها قريب المؤونة يحفر عليه بالأيدي فيوجد، وبها حدائق النخل والرمان والأترج، يزرع بها القطن وهي شديدة الحر كثيرة الرمال وربما غلب الرمل على بعض منازلها وكان فيما بينها وبين عمان طريق استولت عليه الرمال وانقطع” 5
“ومغاص الجوهر فيما بين سيراف والبحرين في خور راكد مثل الوادي العظيم” 4
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 286, 287.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29762," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 4 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 286.
- 5 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 287.
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- Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
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