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" Kish - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Floor, Willem
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AL
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English
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1062506
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ALei2903
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Floor, Willem
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Kish - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Floor, Willem
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,592 words)
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Kish (Ar., Qays) is an Iranian island important in the past (in trade) and the present (in tourism and trade). It lies in the Persian Gulf, nineteen kilometres off Bandar-i Charak. During the fifth–eighth/eleventh–fourteenth centuries it was the emporium through which trade from and to India was controlled. Thereafter it was a typical Persian Gulf island, whose inhabitants fished, pearled, and traded. By 1970 it became an important tourist centre, and it has been, since 1992, a free-trade zone. Kish, in English sources variously called
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Islam.
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ALei2903.pdf
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