Sirāf: A medieval port on the Persian Gulf

Abstract

In the ninth and tenth centuries A.D., Sirāf, on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf, was a leading entrepot for maritime trade between the Moslem world and the Far East. Excavations at Sirāf, begun by the British Institute of Persian Studies in 1966, show that the site was already important in the eighth century. The city reached its greatest extent in the tenth century and thereafter declined. After the twelfth century the site supported a small town. Among the buildings already investigated are the Great Mosque, a group of opulent houses, a pottery and part of a bazaar.

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