The Persian Gulf in Old Maps

All you see in this blog is from one of the books of Sahab G.D.I that called "Persian Gulf in Old Maps"; There are selected maps of The Persian Gulf throughout history in it.
Here is a short text of "Persian Gulf in Old Maps":
One of the oldest maps, which show a drawing of the Persian Gulf, is a clay tablet which shows the Babylonian world and its periphery. This document, which is thousands of years old, proves that the whole known world at that time did not go beyond the limited region of the Tigris and Euphrates and their peripheral waters (Persian Gulf). With the passage of time and the evolution of cities, the role and significance of the Persian Gulf increased.

Maps & Informations

1-A. Baked clay tablet from ancient Babylonia:The Babylonian tablet is a ground plan dating from second to third millennium B.C., the recto depicts the world of the Babylonians and on the verso, and the description of wn encircled by the Persian Gulf, and the remaining areas are named as "other regions". The original tablet is preserved in the British Museum, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities.













1-B. Graphic reproduction of the recto and verso of the ancient Babylonian baked clay tablet depicted above.

2. World mapBy ANAXIMANDER of MelitusPeriod: 610-546 B. CInterpreted in 1836 by J. Lelewel.Original: J. Lelewel Kleinere Schriften, Leipzig, 1836.Leiden University Library.

3. Tabula Universalis Locorum quae Phoenicum Navigationibus...By Saint BochartusPeriod: 1500-500 B. C. Interpreted in 1842 by A. Fprbiger.The original was published in his Geographia Seu Phaleg et Canaan, Lugduni Batavorum 1692, Leiden University Library.

4. World mapBy STRABO [Strabon], (ca. 12 B. C.-58A.D.)Interpreted by Lloyd A. Brown in The Story of Maps, published in New York, 1949.

5. World mapBy COSMAS Indicopleustes (ca. 535-547 A.D.)From the Greek manuscript "Topographia Christiana" in Vaticana Library, Rome and Laurentiana in Florence.Gulf of Persia and Gulf of Arabia (Red Sea) in an English copy of Cosmas Indicopleustes World. map.

6. World mapBy Saint BEATUS (730-798 A.D.):Original: Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

7. "Sural al-Ma'muniyah" (World map)By the scholars and geographers of the caliph al-Ma'mun, under supervision of Abu Ja'far Mohammad ibn Musa, AL-KHWAREZMI, (780-847 A.D. /164-233 H.)Period: 833 A.D. /218 H.

8. World mapBy AL-BALKHI, Abu Ahmad ibn Sahl (850-934 A.D. / 235-322 H.)From the original manuscript in Oxford University Library.

9. Bahr-e-Fars [Persian Sea]By ISTAKHRI (Estakhri), Abu-Es'haq Ehrahim al-Faresi (Before 930-957 A.D. / 318-346 H.):From a Persian translation of Kitab al-masalik va'l- mamalik of Istakhri. ca. 11th/12th century A.D. manuscript dated 1325 A.D./ 726 H. by Ibn Savoji.Original: Iran-e Bastan [Ancient Persia] Museum Library, Tehran.

10. Bahr-e Fars in two different maps from Kitab-e Suwar al-Aqalim of Abu-Es'haq Ebrahim al-Faresi al-Istakhri (Before 930-957 A.D. / 318-346 H), in the manuscript of Gotha Library.

11. "Surat-e Khuzestan" [Khuzistan image]By ISTAKHRI (Estakhri), Abu-Es'haq Ebrahim al-Faresi (Before 930-957 A.D. / 318-346 H.):From a Persian translation of Kitab al-masalik va'l- mamalik of Istakhri. ca. 11th/12th century A.D. manuscript dated 1325 A.D./726 H. by Ibn Savoji.Original: Iran-e Bastan [Ancient Persia] Museum Library, Tehran.

12. "Surat el-Iraq" (The land of Iraq)By Abol-Qassem Ahmad al-Nasibi IBN-E HOWQAL (Before 931-988 A.D. /320-378 H.), Interpreted in 1959 by Dr. Ahmad Suseh.Original: Dr. Ahmad Suseh "Al-Iraq fel-Khawarit al-Qadima" (Iraq in Ancient Maps), published by "Majma' al-Iimi al-Iraqi" (Iraqi Scientific Assembly), Baghdad, 1959.

13. World mapBy Abol-Qassem Ahmad al-Nasibi IBN-E HOWQAL (Before 931-988 A.D./ 320-378 H.)Original: Kitab Surat al-ardh by Ibn-e Howqal, copied in 1086 A.D.

14. World map By Abu Abadallah Mohammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yusof al-Katib AL-KHWAREZMI (ca. 975-991 A.D./ 365-381 H.). Original is in a manuscript with the name of author, dated 1287 A.D./ 686 H., found in Sultan Ahmad Kosk Library, Istanbul.

15. Bahr-e Fars (Persian Sea)In the detailed map of the part six of the third Eqlim, from Al-Sheik Abu Abdallah Mohammad ibn Mohammad ibn Abdallah ibn Edris AL-EDRISI al-Hasani al-Talebi, (1100-1160 A.D./493-555 H.)"Uns ol-Mahaj va Hadaiq al-Faraj" manuscript.

16. The Ebstorf World map By GERVASE of Tilbury (ca. 1160-1211 A.D.), formerly in the possession of the Ebstorf Convent, prepared around 1235 A.D.

17. Map of the Persian GulfBy Mohammad ibn Mohammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi [Khwajeh Nasir ed-Din Tusi](1201-1274 A.D./ 598-673 H.), from the manuscript of Kitab Suwar al-Aqalim in Vienna National Library, interpreted by Konrad Miller in Mappae Arabicae, Stuttgart 1931.

18. Map of PersiaBy Hamdullah MUSTAWFI (1281-1349 A.D./680-750 H.), from Nizhat al-qulub copy of the 17th century A.D. Original: British Library, London,Ms. Add. 16736, fols. 143b-144a

19. World mapBy Ranulf HIGDEN (1299-1363 A.D.):Original: British Museum, London(MS. Royal 14 C. IX.)

20. World MapBy Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514 A.D.) in Das Buch der Cronicken [The Book of chronicles].Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, 1493.

21. South West Asia (Untitled)By Sebastian Munster (1489-1552 A.D.): Map date: ca. 1570 A.D.

22. Map of Arabia, India and Persian Gulf By Lopo Homen, (Homem)(1497-1572 A.D.)From Miller Atlas, Date: ca. 1519 A.D.

23. World MapBy: Al-Sharafi of Safax (Safaquesi) Family(1551-1601 A.D./ 959-1010 H.)Map date: ca. 1592 A.D.Original: Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

24. Map of ArabiaBy Henricus Hondius (Hondio),(1597-1651 A.D.)Sone of Jodocus Hondius (Flemish)Map dated Amsterdam, 1630 A.D.,Copper engraving by Hondius and Bertius

25. Nova DelincotioPERSIAE et Confiniorvm (Persia and neighbouring regions)By Adam Olearius (1599-1671 A.D.)Map Dated:1637 A.D.Original is printed in "Moscowitische und Persianische Reisebeschreibung", Schleswig 1655 A.D.

26. "Persaru, sive Parthorum Imperium in Duo de viginti Regna"By Nicolas d'Abbeville Sanson (1600-1698 A.D.)Map Dated: 1698 A.D.

27. Tabula Hydrographica SINUS PERSICUSBy Englebert Kaempfer(1651-ca. 1716 A.D.)From the Travel Account of Englebert Kaempfer,Dated: 1716 A.D.

28. Map of The Persian Gulf (Sinus Persicus)By John Thornton (ca. 1652-1701 A.D.)Map date: 1699 A.D.

29. Comprehensive map of The Persian Gulf (Sinus Persicus) from Muscat to Basra, By John Thornton,(ca. 1652-1701 A.D.)May date: London, ca. 1699 A.D.Original: Royal Geographical Society, London

30. Scena Historiarum Orientalis Secvli P.N.Chr.By Christophoro Weigelio (Weigelius)(1654-1725 A.D.)Date: ca. 1720 A.D.

31. Etats du Grand-Signeur en Asie, Empire de Perse, Pays des Usbecs, Arabie et EgypteBy Didier ROBERT DE VAUGONDY,(1723-1786 A.D.)May dated: 1753 A.D.Original: Private collection of Sultan Bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, Sharja, U.A.E.

32. World mapBy Saint BEATUS (730-798 A.D.):From a manuscript of 13th century A.D.Original: Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.