K̲h̲ambāyat - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" K̲h̲ambāyat - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Balachandran, Jyoti Gulati

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062515
Doc. NO	:	ALei2912
Main Entry	:	Balachandran, Jyoti Gulati
Title & Author	:	K̲h̲ambāyat - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Balachandran, Jyoti Gulati
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,045 words)
Abstract	:	K̲h̲ambāyat (Cambay, Kanbāya, Kinbāya, and Kambhāt), lies at the head of the Gulf of K̲h̲ambāyat, in northwestern Gujarat, about fifty-two miles south of the city of Ahmedabad. It was a leading port in the Indian Ocean trading network from the late fourth/tenth century to the end of the tenth/sixteenth. When the Arab historian and traveller al-Masʿūdī (d. 345/946) visited K̲h̲ambāyat in about 300–1/913–4, he found it a flourishing town, located in a bay with deeper water
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2912.pdf