Islamization and trade in the Arabian Gulf in the age of Mohammad and Charlemagne

Abstract

indirectly based on Kennet's research, emerges from Priestman's recent work, based on the careful study of a number of assemblages from the Gulf dating to between c. 400 and c. 1275. on the development of ceramic production in the late Sasanian and early Islamic Gulf (2013).Written sources Dates (CE) Kennet (2012) Priestman (2013) 492-493: Composition of Sung Shu 551-554: Composition of Wei Shu 636: Completion of Sui Shu c. 634-644: Emergence and spread of Islamic state over Iraq and the Gulf. c.610-650: First overland contacts of between Islam and China, according to Chinese Muslim late literature 400-650 Period A Ceramic Period 1 (Kush, UAE; Bushehr, Iran) 651: Yijing's travel. 689: Qaṭarī ibn al-Fujā'a becomes Azraqī Caliph in Kirman. c.650-700: First historically attested contacts between China and Islam, overland.