K̲h̲ambāyat (Cambay, Kanbāya, Kinbāya, and Kambhāt), lies at the head of the Gulf of K̲h̲ambāyat, in northwestern Gujarat, about fifty-two miles south of the city of Ahmedabad. It was a leading port in the Indian Ocean trading network from the late fourth/tenth century to the end of the tenth/sixteenth. When the Arab historian and traveller al-Masʿūdī (d. 345/946) visited K̲h̲ambāyat in about 300-1/913-4, he found it a flourishing town, located in a bay with deeper water