Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (full nameAbū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Zayd al-Sīrāfī,أبو زيد حسن بن زيد السيرافي) was a 10th-centurygeographer andtraveller from thePersian Gulf port ofSiraf. He is well known as the author of a collection of travels and fantastic stories from theIndian Ocean, ariḥla or travelogue known in Arabic simply asRiḥlat al-Sīrāfī (al-Sīrāfī’s Travelogue), and often associated with the writings ofSulayman al-Tajir and theAkhbār al-Ṣīn wa’l-Hind (Accounts of China and India).^[1] He should not be confused with another travel writer from Siraf, Abū ‘Imrān Mūsā ibn Rabāḥ al-Awsī al-Sīrāfī, author of theṢaḥīḥ min akhbār al-biḥār wa-‘ajā‘ibihā (True Stories of the Seas and Their Wonders).^[2]

• 10th-century historians from the Abbasid Caliphate
• 10th-century Arabic-language writers
• 10th-century Arab people
• 10th-century geographers
• Geographers from the Abbasid Caliphate
• Explorers of South Asia
• Travel writers

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