Beyond Ibn Hawqal's Bahr al-Fārs
Subtitle: 10th-13th centuries AD : Sindh and the Kīj-u-Makrān region, hinge of an international network of religious, political, institutional and economic affairs
By: Valeria Piacentini Fiorani
Series: BAR international series -- 2651; Studies in the archaeology and history of Baluchistan -- volume II; BAR international series -- 2651.; Studies in the archaeology and history of Baluchistan -- v. 2.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781407312927
Subjects: History; Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology)
Description: "The first section of the present volume is a report of the Italian involvement in Southern Makrān and Kharān, its aims and objects, modus operandi. It is essentially restricted to the Islamic era and represents a discourse preliminary to the second section. The methodological approach of combining historical sources (written and manuscript, Persian and Arabic) with archaeological evidence and geo-morphological study has allowed for a re-reading of the traditional literature and the role played by Makrān and, in particular, the Kīj-u-Makrān region during the 10th-13th Centuries AD. Many questions put by this mystifying region still stand only partly answered, if not completely un-answered. After three seasons of archaeological field-work and research – complemented with accurate geo-morphological surveys and studying – we are still confronted with an elusive region and some crucial queries. ‘Part Two’ of this study is the follow up of the archaeological and geo-morphological research-work: a historical study, which focuses on the 10th-13th Centuries AD."--
Notes: "40 years of BAR"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Italian initiative in Baluchistan : Italian historical, archaeological and anthropological research-work in Makrān and Kharān (Baluchistan) : 1987-2001; title: From Baluchistan to Sindh : Italian involvement (2010-2012). Search for "the great harbour-town of the east" : Banbhore?; title: The Būyids : foundation of a political-military and economic dominion. The Bahr al-Fārs. Makrān - spine of a land and sea international trade-network (10th-11th centuries AD); title: Turkish pressure and invasions. New alliances. The Seljuks. The closing up of the triangle : Makrān - spine of the new political, military and economic system (11th-13th centuries AD); title: Harmuz and Qays : the configuration of new cultural and mercantile patterns (5th-6th/11th-12th centures); title: Harmuz-Qalhāt-Kīj : the triangle of Harmuz power and maritime dominion. Marco Polo's "Chesmacoran" (AH 6th-7th centuries/AD 12th-13th centuries); title: 'Umān, Makrān, Kirmān... and the sea (7th-8th/13th-14th centuries).