The Role of Connecting Routes of ArdshirKhorrah Province on Its Commercial Expansion in the Islamic Era

The lucrative commerce of ArdshirKhorrah which widely encompassed the majority of Persian Gulf commercial ports required an ordered system of connecting and commercial routes. The routes mainly used by caravans, from Asia Minor to Transoxiana, had long terminated to northern and eastern sides of the Persian Gulf (ArdshirKhorrah coasts) and the products of Transoxiana were exported to ArdshirKhorrah ports for consumption and export and from there to India, China and East of Africa. Being geographically located at the juncture of commercial lands and seaways, ArdshirKhorrahwas considered as a commercial pole and alinkingchain that connected the East to the West. In this paper, through adopting a historical-descriptive and library-oriented research method, we attempt to examine the connecting land routes and seaways of ArdshirKhorrah and analyze the role of such routes in commercial affluence and proliferation of that area. Imported and exported products of this province will also be studied.