Ethics 75
Nicomachean Ethics 211
Poetics 75, 139
Al-A’sha 103, 104
al-Asma’i 418
Athir al-Din Muhammad ibn Yusuf Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi xiv, 352–4
Idrak (‘The Achievement’) 352
Avicenna see Ibn Sina
Bahram V (Bahram Gur) 151, 153
Baldrick, Julian 215
Baqil 85, 89
al-Baqillani 13, 31
Barbier de Meynard, A. C. 207
Bashshar ibn Burd, Abu Mu’adh ix, 31, 74, 84, 118–21, 123, 238
Baybars, Sultan 361
Beeston, Professor A. F. L. ix
Beowulf 6, 48
Bishr ibn Mu’tamir 108
Boabdil see under Muhammad XII of Granada
Book of Sindbad 154
Browne, Sir Thomas: ‘Urne Burial’ 100
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, ‘The Dead Pan’ 42
al-Buhturi, Abu ‘Ubada al-Walid ibn ‘Ubayd 138–42, 143, 146, 210, 328, 354
Burkhardt, Jacob 149
al-Busiri, Sharaf al-Din Muhammad 333–4
Qasidat al-Burda (‘The Ode of the Mantle’; ‘Luminous Stars in Praise of the Best of Mankind’) 333, 334–46
Buzurjmihr (Burzoe) 152, 154
Cahen, Claude 209
Charles, Martel 244
Charles of Orleans 224
Chosroes I Anurshirwan 154
Chosroes (Khosro Parvez; Khusraw) 133, 135
Corvo, Baron (Frederick Rolfe) 252
al-Dabbi, Mufaddal 117
Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy 243, 263, 313
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe 291, 313
the Delectable War between Mutton and the Refreshments of the Market Place 423–30
Descartes, René 324
al-Dhahabi 329
Dhu’l-Rummah see Abu Harith Ghaylan ibn ‘Uqba
Eliot, T. S. 300
The Encyclopaedia of ‘Islam xiv, 187, 447
Ephraem, St 241–2
Euclid: The Book of Euclid 74
Fahrenheit 451 (film) 354
Farabi 75, 219
Canons of Poetry (Risala fi Qaqanin Sina‘a al-Shi ‘r) 139
al-Farazdaq, Tammam ‘Ibn Ghalib 45–7, 56, 67
Ferdinand III of Castile 305
Firdawsi: Shahnama 148, 153, 441, 442, 443
Foucault, Michel: The Order of Things 284
Fuentes, Carlos 78
Gabriel, Archangel 30, 39
Galen 111–12, 265
Gayangos, P. de 313
Ghayat al-Hakim (‘Goal of the Sage’) 283–7
al-Ghazzali, Abu Hamid Muhammad 128, 193, 297, 323–8
Ihya al-’Ulum al-Din (‘The Revival of Religious Sciences’) 325
Kimiya-yi Sadat (‘The Alchemy of Happiness’) 325
Mishkat al-Anwar (The Niche of Lights’) 324–5
Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (The Deliverance from Error’) 325–8
Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of Philosophers’) 325
al-Ghitaniy, Gamal 448
al-Ghuri, Sultan Qansuh 441, 443, 447
Kawkab al-Durri fi-Masa’il al-Ghuri (The Glittering Stars regarding the Questions of al-Ghuri’) 441
al-Ghuzuli, ‘Ala al-Din ibn ‘Ali 318, 433
Matait al-Budut fi Manazil al-Surur (‘Risings of the Full Moons in the Mansions of Pleasure’) 433–6
Gibbon, Edward 244
al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, governor 45, 65–7, 75
al-Hallaj, Husayn ibn Mansur 128–32, 211, 297, 324
al-Hamadhani, Badi’ al-Zaman 100–101, 148, 178–86, 262
Maqamat 46, 118, 179, 180–86, 262, 360
Hammad ‘Ajrad 120
Hammad al-Rawiyya 16, 62, 117
al-Hariri, Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn ‘Ali x, xiii, 187, 315, 448
Maqamat 48, 77, 150, 186, 187–93, 313, 323, 360
Harun-al-Rashid, Caliph 69, 105, 117–18, 121, 127, 154, 165, 218, 442
Hasan of Basra 128
Hazar Afsaneh (Thousand Stories’) 116, 151, 152, 153
Hippocrates 109–10, 265
Hisham ibn al-Hakam 106–7, 108
Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary 170
Homer 75
The Iliad 6, 365
The Odyssey 365
Hourani, George F.: Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times 65
Hud 345
Hudhaifa ibn Badr 265
Huma’i 151, 153
Husayn, Taha 28
al-Husayni, Muhammad ibn Muhammad called Sharif: Nafa’is Majalis al-Sultaniyya (The Gems of the Royal Sessions’) 441, 442–3
al-Hutai’ah 218
‘Iblis (the Devil) 207
Ibn ‘Abbad, Wazir Sahib 170–71, 178, 179, 218, 247, 354
Ibn ‘Abd al-Rabbihi xii, 247
The Precious Necklace xi, 247–50
Ibn ‘Abdus 271
Ibn al-’Amid, Vizier
Abu’1-Fadl 171, 211–15
Ibn al-’Arabi, Muhyi al-Din Abu Bakr Muhammad x, 128, 277, 297–300, 313, 328
Fusus al-Hikam (‘Bezels of Wisdom’) 299
Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah (The Meccan Revelations’) 299
Shajarat al-Qawm (Tree of Existence’) 299
Tarjuman al-Ashwaq (‘the Interpreter of Desires’) 298, 299–300
‘The Treasury of Lovers’ 300
‘Ibn al-’A’rabi 102
‘Ibn al-Athir, Diya’ al-Din Abu’l-Fath Nasr Allah 321–3
Math al al-Shair fi-Adab al-Katib wa al-Shalir (The Popular Model for the Discipline of Writer and Poet’) 321–3
‘Ibn al-Athir, ‘izz al-Din 321
‘Ibn al-Farid, Sharaf al-Din ‘Umar 128, 297, 328–33, 442, 448
Nazm al-Suluk (‘Poem of the Way’) 328
Al Taiyah al-Kubra (‘Great Poem Rhyming in Ta’) 333
‘Ibn al-Furat 211
‘Ihn al-Khatib, Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad (Lisan al-Din) 304–6, 309
Ibn al-Labbana 266
Ibn al-Marzuban, Abu Bakr Muhammad 203
Fadl al-Kilab ‘ala Kathir Miman Labisa al-Thiyyab (‘The Book of the Superiority over Many Who Wear Clothes’) 203–6
Ibn al-Muqaffa, ‘Abd Allah x, 31, 75–84, 152, 247, 430
Adab al-Kabir (‘The Grand Book of Conduct’) 83, 193
Kalila wa-Dimna (‘The Ring Dove’) 74, 76–83, 116, 152, 153, 154, 186, 187, 193, 194, 195, 313, 430, 437
Risala al-Sababa (‘A Letter on the Entourage’) 83
Ihn al-Mutazz, Abdallah viii, 143–5, 358
Kitab al-Badil 143
Ibn al-Nadim, Muhammad ibn Ishaq 69, 70, 71, 77, 150
Fihrist (‘Index’) 68, 69–70, 151–4, 242
‘Ibn al-Qarih 238–9, 242
‘Ibn al-Rumi, Abu’l-Hasan 43, 74, 145–7
‘Ibn ‘Ammar 268
‘Ibn ‘Arabshah, Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad 78, 436–7
Ajaib al-Maqdur fi-Nawaib Timur (‘Wonders of Destiny regarding the Misfortunes Inflicted by Timur’) 437–41
Fakihat al-Khulafa wa Mufakabat al-Zurafa (‘The Caliph’s Delicacy and Joke of the Refined’) 437
Ibn Buwaih, Ahmad 228
‘Ibn Daniyal, Shams al-Din Muhammad 359–60
‘Ajib wa-Gbarib (‘Marvellous and Strange’) 360–64
‘Al-Mutayyam wal-Daix al-Yutayyim (‘The Man Distracted by Passion and the Little Vagabond Orphan’) 364
Tayf al-Khayyal (‘The Imaginary Phantom’) 360
‘Ibn Da’ud, ‘Ali 152, 154
‘Ibn Hamdis, ‘Abd al-Jabbar Abu Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr 270–71
‘Ibn Hazm, Abu Muhammad ‘Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Sa’id 251–2, 260–61, 298, 313, 448
Kitab al-Fisal fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa al-Nibal (‘The Book of Religious and Philosophical Texts’) 260–61
The Ring of the Dove 251–60, 261
‘Ibn Jama’a 355
‘Ibn Jinni 219
‘Ibn Khafaja, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim 288–9, 301
‘Ibn Khaldun, ‘Abd al-Rahman ihn Muhammad xiii, 2, 276, 278, 302–4, 355
Kitab al-lbar (‘The Book of Examples’) 302-303
Muqaddima (‘The Prolegomena’) 302, 303-304
‘Ibn Khallikan 146, 267
‘Ibn Mansur, Ya’qub 277
‘Ihn Manzur 30
‘Ibn al-Muqaffa’ 74–84
‘Ibn Muqlah 211
‘Ibn Nubata, Abu Yahya 219–21
Ibn Qutayba (Abu Muhammad ‘Abd Allah ihn Muslim ibn Qutayba al-Dinawari) 66, 101, 112, 247
Kitab Adab al-Katib (‘The Book of the Culture of the Scribe’) 101
Kitab al-Shir wa-l-Shuara 3–4
‘Uyun al-Akhbar (‘Sources of Narratives’) 101–4, 247
‘Ibn Quzman, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn ‘Isa 278–83
Ibn Sa’dan 172, 174, 177
Ibn Sa’id al-Maghribi, Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn Musa 301
Kitab Rayyat al-Mubarrizin (‘The Book of the Banners of the Champions’) 301
‘Ibn Shuhayd, Abu ‘Amir 243, 250–51, 261–3, 313
Risalat al-Tawabi wa al-Zawabi (‘Epistle of Inspiring Jinns and Demons’) 261–5
Ibn Sina, Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Allah 194
Hayy ibn Yaqzan (‘Life, Son of Certainty’) 215–16, 290–91
Kisalat al-Tair (‘Letter of the Bird’) 216
Salaman wa-Absal (‘Salaman and Absal’) 216
Ibn Sinan, Harim 346
Ibn Tahir, Muhammad ‘Ibn ‘Abdallah 145
Ibn Tashfin, Yusuf 287, 288
‘Ibn Taymiyya 329
Ibn Tufayl, Abu Bakr ibn ‘Abd al-Malik 194, 215, 290
Hayy ibn Yaqzan 290–97, 313
Ibn Tumart 289–90
Ibn Ukhuwwa xiv
Ibn Washsha, Abu al-Tayyib Muhammad ‘Ibn Ahmad 252, 307, 358
‘Ibn Washshiyya xi, 71, 284
al-Filabah al-Nabatiya (‘Nabataean Agriculture’) 71
Kitab al-Sumum (‘Book of Poisons’) 71–4
Ibn Zafar, Hujjat al-Din Muhammad 32, 78, 430, 437
Inba Nujaba’ al-Abna 433
Sulwan al-Muta fi ‘Udwan al-Atba’ (‘Resources of a Prince against the Hostility of Subjects’) 430–33, 437
‘Ibn Zamrak, Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yusuf 304, 306–7
‘Ibn Zaydun, Abu’l-Walid Ahmad 267, 271–4
‘Ibn Zuhr, Abu Bakr 277–8
‘Ibn Zunbul al-Rammal, Ahmad 308, 444, 448
Kitab lnfisal Dawlat al-Awam wa'l-Itisal Dawlat Bani Uthman (‘Book of the Departure of the Dynasty of Time and the Coming of the Ottoman Dynasty’) 443–7
‘Ibrahim, al-Mawsili 114, 207, 218, 245, 246
Ibrahim ibn Malik 108–9
Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi 115
Kitab al-Tabikh 115
Ikhwan al-Safa’ 194–203, 215, 287
Imru’ al-Qays 16, 40, 121, 238, 261
Mu'allaqa 7–15, 16, 333
‘Irving, Washington: The Alhambra 244, 308, 310
al-Isfahani, ‘imad al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Katib xiii, 315–18, 431
Barq al-Shami (‘Syrian Lightning’) 316
Fath al-Qussi fi al-Fath al-Qudsi (‘Eloquence on the Conquest of the Holy City’) 316
Kharidat al-Qasr (‘The Garden of the Palace’) 316
Kitab al-Aghani 355
Ishaq, al-Mawsili 94, 114
I’timad, al-Rumakiyya 267, 268
al-Jabarti 448
Ja’far ibn Harb 108
Ja’far ibn Mubashshir 108
Jahiz (Abu Uthman ‘Amr ibn Bahr al-Jahiz) viii, xiii, 25, 49, 65, 66, 68, 75, 77, 84-101, 114, 116, 118, 170, 179–80, 207, 247, 262, 315
‘The Boast of the Blacks against the Whites’ 84
Book of the Crown 58
Chance or Creation? 99–100
Kitab al-Bukhala’ (‘Book of Misers’) 94–9
Kitab al-Hayawan (‘Book of Animals’) 85-91, 203
Kitab al-Tarbi' wa al-Tad wir (‘The Book of the Square and the Round’) 100
Risalat al-Qiyan (‘Letter on Singing-Girls’) 91–4
al-Jahshiyari, Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdus. History of the Viziers 152, 153, 154
Jamil ibn ‘Abdallah ibn Marnar al-Udhri 56–8, 111
Jaqmaq, Sultan 437
Jarir ibn ‘Atiyya 45, 46, 56, 67
al-Jawbari, Zayn al-Din ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Umar 356
Kashf al-Asrar (‘The Unveiling of Secrets’) 356–9
John, the son of Zechariah (John the Baptist) 351, 352
Johnson, Dr Samuel:
Dictionary of the English Language 43
Jones, Sir William 14
al-Jumahi 2
Tabaqat 62–3
al-Jurjani, ‘Abd al-Qadir
Abu Bakr 216–17, 218
Asrar al-Balagha (‘Secrets of Eloquence’) 216
Kahle, Paul 363-4
al-Katib 262 see also‘Abd al-Hamid ibn Yahya
Khalaf ibn Hayyan al-Ahmar 27
Khalid ibn Barmak 105
Khalil ibn Ahmad 49
Kitab al-Ayn 48
Al-Khansa’ bint ‘Amr ibn al-Sharid of the tribe of Banu Sulaym, ‘the Gazelle’ 25, 239
‘For Her Brother’ 25-6
‘Lament for a Brother’ 26-7
al-Khidr, ‘the Green Man’ 297
Khomeini, Ayatollah 41
Khosro Parvez see Chosroes
Khusraw see Chosroes
al-Khwarizmi, Abu Bakr 180, 354
Kindi 68
Kraemer, Joel 149
al-Kumayt, Ibn Zayd al-Asadi 212, 215
Kurtbay 447
Kushajim al-Sindi, Abu’l-Fath Mahmud ibn al-Husayn 115, 219, 227-8
Adab al-nudama wa-latdifal-zurafa (‘Etiquette of the Cup Companion and Refined Jests of the Elegant’) 227
Kuthayyir 102, 103
LA Confidential (film) 174
Lane, E. W.: Arabic-English Lexicon xii, 25
Lapidus, Ira Marvin: Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages 363
Lawrence, T. E. 132
Lessing, Doris 78
Llewelyn, Prince 206
Lyall, Sir Charles 14–5, 117
al-Ma’arri, Abu al-’Ala 31, 58, 203, 263, 315, 354
al-Diriyyat (‘On Coats of Mail’) 230
Al-Fusul wa al-Ghayat (‘Paragraphs and Periods’) 230
Luzum ma lam yalzam (‘The Constraint of What Is Not Compulsory’) 230
Risalat al-Ghufran (‘The Epistle of Forgiveness’) 237-43
Risalat al-Sahil wa al-Shahij (‘Letters of a Horse and a Mule’) 230
Saqt al-Zand (‘Spark from the Fire-stick’) 230
al-Mahdi, Caliph 115, 117, 127, 247
Mahfouz, Naguib 321, 448
Mahmud of Ghazna, Sultan 229, 442
Majnun (Qays ibn Mulawwah) 93
al-Majriti 283
Makdisi, George 149
al-Mamun, Caliph 69, 74-5
Mann, Thomas: Joseph in Egypt 30
al-Mansur, Caliph 70, 74, 117, 244-5
Manuel, Don Juan: El Conde Lucanor 313
al-Maqqari 246, 304, 308, 309-13
Nafh al-Tib min Gbusn al-Andalus al-Katib wa-Dhikr Waziriha Lisan al-Din Ibn al-Khatib (‘the Fragrant Scent of the Tender Shoots of Andalus and the History of the Wazir Lisan al-Din Ibn al-Khatib’) 309-13
Margoliouth, D. S. 28, 186–7, 211
Marzuban-i-Rustam-i-Sharwin: Marzuban-nama 437
al-Marzubani, Muhammad ibn ‘Imran 240, 242
Kitab al-Ash’s at al-J inn (‘Poems of the Jinn’) 242
al-Mas’ud, Sultan 187, 356
al-Mas’udi, Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn 66, 74, 85, 105–12, 114–15, 206–7, 228
Akhbar al-Zaman (‘Historical Annals’) 207, 208
Kitab al-Tanbih (‘Book of Notifaction’) 207
Muruj al-Dhabab (‘The Rivers’) 207
Mayyah 134, 135
Mehmed I, Sultan 437
Mez
, Adam 149
Miskawayh, Abu ‘Ali Ahmad ibn Muhammad xii, 115, 131–2, 150, 210-11
Account of various excellencies of Abu'l-Fadl Ibn al-Amid and of his career 211-15
Kitab Tahdhib al- Akhlaq (The Training of Character’) 193–4, 210
Tajarib al-Ummam wa-Ta’l aqib al-Himam (The Experiences of the Nations and the Results of Endeavours’) 210
Uns al-Farid (‘Companion of the Lonely’) 210
More, Sir Thomas:
History of King Richard III 438
Moses 351
Mu'lallaqat 6-7, 16 see under‘Antara ibn Shaddad; Imru’ al-Qays
Mu’awiyya 265
Mufaddaliyyat 117
Mohammad, Prophet xiv, 2, 30, 31, 38–42, 55, 65, 95, 111, 244, 250, 291, 309, 318, 331, 334, 345, 358
Muhammad V of Granada 304
Muhammad XII of Granada (Boabdil) 308
al-Muhasibi 324
al-Muktafi, Caliph 209
al-Muqtadir, Caliph 209
Mustakfi, Caliph 228,
al-Mustarshid, Caliph 187
al-Mu’tadid, Caliph 146, 266–7, 270, 271
al-Mu’tamid, Caliph 112, 207–8, 267–70, 271, 287, 288
Mu’tamir ibn Mulaiman 107-8
al-Mutanabbi, Abu’l-Tayyib Ahmad ibn Husayn x, 31, 148, 219, 221–2, 223, 229, 262, 270, 315, 328, 448
al-Mu’tasim, Caliph 132, 134
al-Mutawakkil, Caliph 143
al-Mu’tazz, Caliph 143, 217
al-Nadim see Ibn al Nadim
Nafzawi, Shaykh: The Glory of the Perfumed Garden 55-6
al-Nazzam, Ibrahim ibn Sayyar 107
Nicephorus II Phocas 223
Nicholson, R.A. 187, 188, 239, 242
Nilus, St 1
Nizam, al-Mulk 323
Nur al-Din 315
Ockley, Simon 291
Palacios, Miguel Asin: Escatologia musulmana en la Divina Commedia 263
Paley, William: Evidence of Christianity 99-100
Panchatantra (‘Five-Fold Way’) 76
Pellat, Charles: The Life and Works of Jahiz 89
Picatrix 284
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Count: De hominis dignitate (‘On the Dignity of Man’) 287
Plato, Symposium 105
Pound, Omar 61
Proust, Marcel: A la recherche du temps perdu 113
Ptolemy: Almagest 74
al-Qadi al-Fadil 315, 316, 359-60
Qali, ‘Ali 247
Kitab al-Amali 247
Qalqashandi 66
Qasim, vizier 146
Qays ibn Mulawwah see Majnun Qays ibn Zuhayr 265
Qaytbay, Sultan al-Ashraf 441
Qazwini xiii
Qur’an 30–41, 47, 48, 58, 65, 70, 75–6, 84, 85, 111, 143, 187, 188, 217, 221, 230, 238, 240, 242, 244, 250, 261, 264, 265, 298, 300, 323, 346, 354, 355, 431, 437, 441, 447