چکیده:
The historical geography of the Persian Gulf has benefited from archaeological research to the extent that patterns of
occupation begin to be evident. This is more dramatic in the Islamic and pre-Islamic periods, when some writings of the Arabic
geographers come to testify to the settlements along this littoral and amplify the archaeological evidence. The following paper will
examine this evidence and the implications for political domination from the northern, Iranian coasts, or more properly, from Fars
province, and the economic or better the environmental instability which lead to shifting of primacy among these ports.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A Sequence of Iranīan Ports: Islamic Archaeology in the Persian Gulf Donald Whitcomb The University of Chicago Received: January 10, 2014 Accepted: January 25, 2014 The historical geography of the Persian Gulf has benefited from archaeological research to the extent that patterns of occupation begin to be evident.
" (Muqaddasi 18) Introduction The historical geography of the Persian Gulf has benefited from archaeological research to the extent that patterns of occupation begin to be evident.
The following discussion will follow the sequence of the ports along this coast, a device which will allow an examination of the Islamic history settlement and archaeology of the Persian Gulf.
Thus survey materials indicate the Sasanian development along the Angali canal, connecting Rishahr to Tawwaj, continued through the early Islamic period and Rishahr functioned as the port of Shapur (as Muqaddasi indicates).
Ceramics from Tawwaj (site B6, near Zirah) indicate clear early Islamic with some Sasanian occupations (Whitcomb 1987: 330-32, fig.
Thus the town of Tawwaj, port of Rishahr, and island of Kharg functioned as a central place on the Persian Gulf for the pre-Islamic and earliest Islamic periods.
Archaeological evidence of its early Islamic importance was revealed in the survey of Williamson (1972; Morgan 1991).
This political interaction, which led to the lease of Bandar Abbas to the Umani Sultan in the late 18th and early 19th century, suggests that comparisons of archaeological materials from Uman (Whitcomb 1973), Julfar (Kennet 2004), and Bandar Abbas would be very revealing.