Merchants - Merchandise and Military Power in the Persian Gulf

1. THE SITE OF SĪRĀF: TWO DISTINCT REALITIES
1.1. The location of the site of Sīrāf
1.2. Two distinct Sīrāfs: the Islamic trading city and the fortified settlement
2. THE EARLIER SIRAF: THE SASANIAN MARITIME ORDER
2.1. One possible etymology: Sūriyānj/Shahriyā
2.2. An image and a history: Sasanian order and security in the Persian Gulf
2.2.1. An image:
2.2.2. Sasanian maritime order
2.2.3. …and a history
3. THE TRANSITION - OR TIlE «'UMĀYYAD» SĪRĀF
3.1. The breakdown of the Sasanian state apparatus
3.2. The marginality of the Persian Gulf
4. THE ISLAMIC TRADING CITY: THE MERCANTILE AND COSMOPOLITAN LIPE OP THE PERSIAN GULP
4.1. Sīrāf between East and West: Merchants and Merchandise through the Persian Gulf
4.2. The Fālīs, tile Kāzirūnīs, the Ṭibīs. Hormūz and the Sīrāfi merchants: the struggle for supremacy in the Gulf
4.3. Hormūz-e Jadīd «Mistress of the Seas»: the supremacy of the old Sīrāfi mercantile class
CONCLUSIONS
Political Groups. Fortunes and decline of an Iranian city
INDEX