Persischer Golf = Persian Gulf = Sinus Persicus

Posted By Mirass Iran, June 2, 2008

To the attention of: Bibliographisches Institut
F. A. Brockhaus AG
Meyers Lexikon online

This is to inform you that; recently “SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG” produced some wrong information about “Persian Gulf” based on inaccurate information inserted in your online and printed copy of Encyclopedia. (the copy of correspondences with “SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG” is herein attached at the bottom)

The most accurate information about Persian Gulf is found here è http://azadeganiran.com/PersianGulf.Asp

  1. This document, other world known institutions, and research centers attested to the historic name of “Persian Gulf.” In 1995 historic maps produced by UNESCO, via RARE Manuscripts, that are heritages of the world, based on documents found in the Alexandria Library attested to the historic name of “Persian Gulf”
  2. In 2002, South Korean Marin Institute published a book with respect to the Japan Sea, containing over 100 maps, which all refer to the historic name of “Persian Gulf” – see book named East Seas.
  3. In Germany most maps found in the museums, libraries and historic archives refer to this body of water by “Persischer Golf.”
  4. The book, “THE ISLAND OF TUNB AND ABUMUSA, An Iranian Argument in Search of Peace” published over 25 maps, attest to the accurate name of “Persian Gulf or in German Language Persischer Golf”
  5. The calendar produced by Bahrain Bank, in 1996 accurately lists 12 maps that refer to “Persian Gulf.”
  6. The ancient Greek geographers and historians called this body of water “Sinus Persicus.” It is interesting that since, before the time of Christ, until as late as the 17th century, the world greatest historians and cartographers from Strabon and Ptolemy to the famous Flemish geographer, Mercator, along with Arab historians referred to the Gulf south of Iran as “Sinus Persicus” or “Mare Persicum,” as distinct from of “Arabicus Sinus,” the name they used to refer to what is known as the Red Sea.
  7. The “Arabian Gulf” was the ancient name of the Red Sea, actually a gulf prior to being connected with the Mediterranean via the opening of the Suez Canal. For the last two millennia the term “ Persian Gulf “ has been used universally by historians, geographers, scholars, strategists and politicians.

Also please look into:

a. Revolt On the Nile, Anwar Sadat, 1957;
b. Monumenta Cartographica et Aegypti ( Le Caire), Yusuf Kamal, 1926 - 51;
c. Geographie, De Strabon, Paris,1805;
d. Historical Geography of Iraq, Mohammad Rashid, Baghdad University, 1965;
e. The past history of Arabs and Islam, OmarAbdol-Nasr, 1062;
f. Science and Civilization of China, J. Needham Cambridge University Press 1959;
g. Political History of Islam, Dr. Hassan-Ibrahim Hassan. Cairo, 1935.

Calling the Persian Gulf a falsehood, i.e., “Arabian Gulf” or “The Gulf”, “Gulf of Arab States” is utterly irresponsible for a valuable Encyclopedia of any caliber, especially an internationally known cultural body as your institution. You cannot have serious academic books on a nonexistent region.

To apply the term “Arabian Gulf “ or any other name to the “Persian Gulf” is an error, and indeed is to become a party to the psychological warfare mainly aimed against the Iranian people.
Please set the record right.

The Response:

Dear Sir:

Thank you for your remarks from March 27, 2008, about the article “Tausendundeine Pracht”, published in SPIEGEL 6/2008. I asked our fact-checking department to check your information.

The standard German encyclopedia “Brockhaus” provides two equivalents to the term “Persische Golf”: the “Arabisch-Persische Golf” and the “Arabische Golf”. Geographically speaking, the body of water lies between Persia and the Arabian Peninsula. On the basis of this information, our staff considers the term used in SPIEGEL to be correct.
Yours sincerely

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