Ṭāherī

…Nīshāpūr (Neyshābūr) in northeastern Iran, Sīrāf in southern Iran, Kairouan in Tunisia, and Córdoba in Spain, it can indeed be considered as the classic early Islamic type. Its masterpieces occur in Iraq and in the West. The monumentalization of the early Iraqi hypostyle is illustrated by the two ruined structures…

…excavations carried out at Nīshāpūr, Sīrāf, Qaṣr al-Ḥayr East, and Al-Fusṭāṭ, the scholarship on those ceramics is likely to be very much modified. Therefore, this section will treat only the most general characteristics of Islamic ceramics, avoiding in particular the complex archaeological problems posed by the growth and spread of…

He captured Sīrāf (modern Ṭāherī), then a large market, but in the 11th century, Qeys supplanted Sīrāf. At its zenith the dynasty of Qeys also ruled over part of the Arabian shore; the islanders traded in Persian, Mesopotamian, Arabian, and Indian products. The site of the old city is…