A Critical Commentary on Elliot and Dowson’s History of India as Told by Its Own Historians

I. 1, l. 7. Abū Zaidu-l-`Hasan of Sīrāf. Sīrāf has disappeared from all modern maps and its place knows it no more.

It was situated midway between Bushire on the N.W. and Kīsh on the S.E. “It was the most important and flourishing port in the Persian Gulf in the early days of Arab rule. Its prosperity appears to have lasted from the seventh Christian century to the twelfth” (Dames, tr. Barbosa. I. note 80). Qazvīni compares it to Shīrāz and Muqaddisi to Baghdād (Le Strange, Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, 257-9). It is now represented by Tahiri, Lat. 27°-40c N., Long. 52°-12c E. which is shown in the Times of India New Pictorial Atlas of the World, Pl. 63.