kirmani



			Back to Table of Contents 3 To next page Afdal al-Din Kirmani : 'Iqd al-'ula (About Government) (around 1200) Persia --------------------------------------- Taken from: Encyclopedia of Islam ; article on Kirman province. Paul Wheatley; The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh Through the Tenth Centuries


	Af'al al-Din states that much trade from India, Sind, Ethiopia, Zangibar, Egypt the Arab countries Uman and Bahrayn entered the port of Tiz. (Which he places on the frontier of Kirman, though usually it is reckoned as belonging to Makran) Imports included musk, ambergris, indigo, velvets, cloths, and other luxury articles. He mentions a suburb of Jiruft known as Qamadin where foreign merchants from Rum and Hind had their warehouses, and where travelers by sea and land could store their goods. In the suqs of this suburb he notes, it was possible to buy and sell goods from China, Transoxania, Hindustan, Khurasan, the Zanj countries, Abyssinia, Egypt, the Greek lands, Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Adharbayjan.

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