Essays on Hormuz


1.1 Introduction 
1.2 Seafaring in the region 
2.1 Earliest Records 
2.2 Persians in Oman 
2.3 Persia and the Rise of Islam 
2.4 Paucity of Material and Sources 
2.5 al-K_h_warazmi and Arab Cartographers 
2.6 Problems of Correct Identification 
3.1 al-Idrisi 12c. 
3.2 Venetians 13c. 
3.3 Hormuz moves to Gerun 14c.
3.4 Cheng Ho 15c. 
3.5 Venetian trade 15c. 
3.6 Map Development After the Arab Geographers 
4.1 Portuguese exploration 
4.2 The Portuguese at Hormuz 
4.3 Initial Ottoman incursions 
4.4 Portuguese face Ottoman expansion 
4.5 Maps and Illustrations pertaining to Hormuz 
4.6 Onset of new trade in the Persian Gulf 
4.7 Threats to Portuguese domination at Hormuz 
4.8 The difficulties at Hormuz 
4.9 The fall of Hormuz to the Persians aided by the English 
4.10 The aftermath of the Portuguese defeat 
4.11 The Portuguese try to re-establish in the area 
5.1 Bandar Abbas 
5.2 South of the Straits - Oman 
5.3 Regional changes 
5.4 Piracy 
5.5 Surveys and Ships 
5.6 Events up to the first world war 
5.7 The second world war 
5.8 Nationalism 
5.9 The Tunbs and Abu Musa Dispute
5.10 Subsequent developments