About the Persian Gulf

While searching for the name Persian Gulf, one comes across many evidences which prove that Persian Gulf name has been around for centuries.

Below is the beginning of EDWARD FITZGERALD's translation of Khayam's poems.

His book was originally published in 1859 http://www.fitzgeraldsrubaiyat.com/

These pearls of thought in Persian Gulf were bred,

Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;

The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,

Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) called the Persian Gulf the Bahre Farsi. This was the term used during the time of the prophet Mohammad and the four Caliphs. The designation of "Persian Gulf" was also used during the Umayyads and the Abbasids. The Ottomans regularly called it either "Persian Gulf" or "Persian Sea".

The leading historians and geographers, both Arabs and Persians, who wrote mostly in Arabic from 9th to the 17th century AD have used the term "Bahre Farsi" or "Khalij Pars" for the Persian Gulf.

Since 1998, the Iranians for International Cooperation's Persian Gulf Task Force (PGTF) has been working on this project to preserve the name "Persian Gulf."  We have defended the historic name from all sorts of organizations and institutions around the world who seek to impose a new name on the Persian Gulf.  We have been able to organize our efforts to this worthy cause and to provide necessary evidences to people who have little or no knowledge of history.