Kourosh AhmadiNaming the Persian Gulf
The Roots of a Political Controversy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Antiquity
1.1 The Early Historical Period
1.2 Persian Gulf in the Greco-Roman Tradition
1.3 The Arabian Gulf
2. The Middle Age and Islamic Era
2.1 Early Geographic Perception in the Islamic Golden Age
2.2 Early Islamic Geographers
2.3 The Balkhi School of Geographers
3. Modern Age
3.1 The Gulf Nomenclature and in the Modern Age
3.2 Factors Contributing to the Historic Resilience of the Term Persian
Gulf
4. Geopolitical Rivalries - the Origin of the Gulf's Naming Dispute
4.1 Britain and the Term Persian Gulf
4.2 Arab Radicalism and the Term 'Persian Gulf'
4.3 Arab Countries and the Naming Dispute
4.4 The Persian Gulf Arab Littorals
4.5 Iran's Views and Role in the Gulf
5. Legal Status of Geographical Names
5.1 Standardization of Geographical Names
5.2 Name Standardization and National Sovereignty
5.3 Disagreement on Name Standardization
5.4 General Rules and Procedures in Name Standardization
5.5 Geographical Names and Cultural Heritage
5.6 The Term 'Persian Gulf' and the UN System
5.7 The Persian Gulf as Endonym and Exonym
5.8 Names and Ownership of Maritime Features
5.9 The Term 'Persian Gulf' in Arab Legal Documents
5.10 The Arab Argument in Support of a Name Change
6. Government Policy on the Nomenclature of the Gulf
6.1 Iran and the Gulf Naming Dispute
6.2 Foreign Government Positions on the Terminology
7. Private Entities and the Term 'Persian Gulf'
7.1 Internationalizing the Term 'Arabian Gulf'
7.2 Iranian Grassroots reactions
