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 Infisal Dawlat al-Awam wa’lItisal 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-Tadwir (‘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 Ma‘mar 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 alHusayn 115, 219, 227–8
Adab al-nudama wa-lata’ if al-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
Lyall, Sir Charles 14–15, 117
al-Ma’arri, Abu al-‘Ala 31, 58, 203, 263, 315, 354
al-Dir’iyyat (‘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 Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib 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
Marzubani-Rustam-i-Sharwin: Marzuban-nama 437
al-Marzubani, Muhammad ibn ‘Imran 240, 242 Kitab al-Ash‘at al-Jinn (‘Poems of the Jinn’) 242
al-Mas’ud, Sultan 187, 356
al-Mas’udi, Abu al-Hasan ibn alHusayn 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’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’allaqat 6–7, 16 see under ‘Antara ibn Shaddad; Imru’ al-Qays
Mu’awiyya 265
Mufaddaliyyat 117
Muhammad, 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, 174
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
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: À 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
al-Radi, Caliph 116, 207
Raqa’iq al-Hilal fi Daqaiq al-Hiyal (‘Cloaks of Fine Fabric in Subtle Ruses’) 364–5
Roderic, king of Spain 311, 312
Rutha al-Hakim (‘The Rank of the Sage’) 284
Sabbah ibn al-Walid 108
Sahl ibn Harun 152, 154
al-Naimir wa‘l-Tha ’lab (‘The Panther and the Fox’) 154
Sa’id ibn Abi Maryam 111
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Due de 209
al-Sakkak 108
Saladin (Salah al-Din) 315, 316–17, 318, 354, 359
al-Salih Ayyub 318
Salih, Tayyib 448
al-Sanawbari, Abu Bakr Muhammad 225–7, 227
Sayf al-Dawla al-Hamdani, Emir 218, 219, 221, 223, 225, 227
Sayf al-Tijan 417
Selim I, Sultan 443, 444
Serjeant, R. B. 99
Shaddad, King 345
al-Shafi’i 152
al-Shahbusti 123
Shahsiwar, Ali Ibn 445, 447
Shakespeare, William, Hamlet 287
Shanfara al-Azdi 18–23, 238
Lamiyyat ix, 19–23, 27, 62
Shukrullah, Ibrahim 14
Sibawayhi, ‘Amr ibn ‘Uthman: Kitab (The Book’) 48, 353
Sinbad/Sindbad the Sailor 154
Sindbadh al-Hakim (‘Sindbad the Sage’) 151–3, 154
Sindhind 74
Sirat al-Zahir 417
Sirat Antar 417–23
Sirat Dhat-al-Himma 417
Sirat Sayf bin Dbi Yazan 417
Solomon, King 32, 351
Sterne, Laurence: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy 68, 86
The Story of Seven Viziers 154
Sufyan ibn Mu‘awiya 102, 104
Suhaym ibn Wathil 65–6
al-Suli, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya 209–10
al-Awraq (‘The Leaves’) 116, 210
Kitab al-Awraq fi Akhbar Al al-‘Abbas wa-Ash‘arihim (‘Book of Pages on the History of the Abbasids and their Poetry’) 209
Ta’abbata Sharran 18–19, 23–4, 238
Qit’a Nuniyya (‘The Short Poem Rhyming in Nun’) 24–5
Tabari 66
Taj al-Arus 25
al-Tanukhi, Abu ‘Ali al-Muhassin xii, 114, 148–70, 178, 180
Faraj bad al-Shidda (‘Relief after Distress’) 155–64
Nishwar al-Muhadara (‘Desultory Conversations’) 164–70, 172
Tarafa 238
al-Tawhidi, Abu’l-Hayyan xii, 170–78, 194
Akhlaq al-Wazirayn (‘Morals of the Two Wazirs’) 170, 171–2
al-Saddaqa 177
Kitab al-lmta wa al-Mu’anasa (‘Book of Enjoyment and Conversation’) 172
Muqabasat (‘Borrowings’) 175–7
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 1 ‘Locksley Hall’ 5
al-Tha’alabi, Muhammad ibn Isma’il 358
Thaddeus 132
Theodorus, King 173
The Thousand and One Nights xii, 32, 67, 77, 116–17, 150, 153, 174, 218, 253, 310, 321, 345, 359, 365, 379
‘The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon’ 366
‘The Tale of Judar and His Brothers’ 379–417
‘The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban’ 366–79
‘The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot’ 371–2
‘The Tale of the King’s Son and the She-Ghoul’ 373–4
Thucydides 75
Thumama ibn Ashras 108
Timur 302, 437–41
al-Tirimmah ibn Hakim al-Ta‘i 61–2
Toqtamish, Khan of the Golden Horde 438, 439
Treadgold, Warren T. ix, 23
Truffaut, François 354
Tumanbay, Sultan 443, 444
Ubaydallah, Ibn Tahir, Prince 145
‘Umar I, Caliph 42, 56, 65
Umar II, Caliph 45, 54–5
‘Umar bin ‘Abd al-Aziz, Caliph 249, 250, 431–2, 433
‘Umar ibn Abi Rabi’a 50–55
Usamah ibn Munqidh xii, 346, 354
Kitab al-Asa (The Book of the Stick’) 351–2
Kitab al-Badi’ fi Naqd al-Shi’r (‘The Book of Embellishment in the Criticism of Poetry’) 352
Kitab al-l’tibar (The Book of Example’) 346–9
Kitab al-Manazil wa al-Diyar (The Book of Campsites and Abodes’) 349–50
Lubab al-Adab (The Pith of Literature’) 352
‘Uthman, Caliph 31, 42, 250
Vigny, Alfred de 314
Villon, François: ‘Ou sont les neiges d’antan?’ 142
Waddell, Helen: The Wandering Scholars 283
Wa’il, Sahban 86, 89
Waines, David: In a Caliph’s Kitchen.
Medieval Cooking for the Modern Gourmet 186
Walid II, Caliph (Prince Walid ibn Yazid) xi, 59–60, 62, 123, 126, 218
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi 271, 274–5
Kitab al-Muwashsha (The Book of Coloured Cloth’) 112–13
al-Washshiyya 228
Yahya ibn Ayyub 111
Yahya ibn Khalid ak-Barmaki 105–6, 117–18, 207
Yahya ibn Sa’id 111
Yaqut 138–9, 178
Zaydan, Jurji 448
Zimmerman, Fritz 68
Ziryab, ‘Ali ibn Nafi 228, 245–6, 309
Zubaydah 152, 154
al-Zubayr, Mus’ab 102, 104
Zuhayr, Abu al-Fadl ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Ali Baha’ al-Din 318–20
Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma 345–6
Mu’allaqa 346
Acknowledgements
The editor and publishers wish to thank those copyright holders who have given permission for their work to be included in this anthology:
American Philosophical Society: an extract by Ibn Washiyyah, translated by Martin Levey, from ‘Medieval Arabic Toxicology’ in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 56 (1966). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
American University in Cairo Press: a poem by Umar ibn Rabia, translated by Adel Suleiman Gamal, from In Quest of an Islamic Humanism, edited by A. H. Green (1984). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
A. J. Arberry: verses by Ibn al-Farid, translated by A. J. Arberry, from The Mystical Poems of Ibn al-Farid, translated and annotated by A. J. Arberry. Chester Beatty Monographs, No. 6 (Emery Walker, 1956).
Aris & Phillips Ltd: the ‘Gelert’ story by Ibn al-Marzuban, translated by G. Rex Smith and M. A. Abdel Haleem, from The Book of the Superiority of Dogs Over Many of Those Who Wear Clothes: Ten Stories and Poems on the Dog (1977); an extract by Jahiz, edited and translated by A. F. L. Beeston, from The Epistle on Singing Girls (1980); extracts from The Adventures of Antar, translated by H. T. Norris (1980). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Artemis & Winkler Verlag: ‘The Cranes of Ibycus’ by Tawhidi, translated by Franz Rosenthal, from The Classical Heritage in Islam (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975).
A. F. L. Beeston: ‘Long was my night by reason of love for one who I think will not be close to me…’ by Bassar, translated by A. F. L. Beeston, from Selections from the Poetry of Bassar, edited and translated by A. F. L. Beeston (Cambridge University Press, 1977).
Blackwell Publishers: an extract by Miskawayh (the obituary of Ibn al-Amid), translated by H. F. Amedroz and D. S. Margoliouth, from The Eclipse of the ‘Abbasid Caliphate, volume 5 (1920–21).
Brill Academic Publishers: ‘The Burda in Praise of the Prophet Muhammad’
by Al-Busiri, translated by Stefan Sperl, from Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa, volume 2, edited by Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle (1996); ‘Seven Poems by Al-Hallaj’, translated by Mustafa Badawi, from Journal of Arabic Literature, 14 (1983); an extract (the great earthquake of 1157) by Usamah ibn Munqidh, described in Kitab al-Manazil, translated by I. Y. Kratchkovsky, from Among Arabic Manuscripts (1953); a poem by Ibn Khafaja, translated by Salma Khadra Jayussi, lines from a poem by Al-Mu‘tamid, translated by Rafael Valencia, and an extract by Ibn Tumart, translated by Madeleine Fletcher, from The Legacy of Muslim Spain, edited by Salma Khadra Jayussi (1992.); selections from The Natural History Section from a 9th century ‘Book of Useful Knowledge’: The Uyun al-Akhbar of Ibn Qutayba, translated by L. Kopf, edited by F. S. Bodenheimer and L. Kopf (1949); Ibn ar-Rumi, translated by Gregor Schoeler, in ‘On Ibn ar-Rumi’s Reflective Poetry. His Poem about Poetry’, from Journal of Arabic Literature, 27 (1966); lines by Mutanabbi, translated by Franz Rosenthal, from Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam (1970); ‘Lamiyah’ by Shanfara, translated by Warren T. Treadgold as ‘A Verse Translation of the Lamiyah of Shanfara’ from Journal of Arabic Literature, 6 (1975); ‘Spring Qasida’ by Abu Tammam, translated by Julia Ashtiany, from Journal of Arabic Literature, 25 (1994); ‘A Spring Excursion’ by Tawhidi, translated by Joel L. Kraemer, from Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam, second edition (1993), and Akhlaq al-Wazirayn (on a thief’s self-description) by Tawhidi, translated by Clifford Edmund Bosworth, from The Mediaeval Islamic Underworld (1976), copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Cambridge University Press: ‘The Makama of Damascus’ by Hariri, translated by R. A. Nicholson, from Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose (1922.); an extract on ‘The Qasida’ by Ibn Qutayba, translated by R. A. Nicholson, from A Literary History of the Arabs (1907); a poem to Buthayna by Jamil, translated by Salma K. Jayussi, and a couplet on old age by Jarir, translated by Salma K. Jayussi, from The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period, edited by A. F. L. Beeston et al. (1983); extracts from the Tarjuman by Ibn al-‘Arabi, translated by M. Lings, a poem by Bashshar, translated by Julia Ashtiany, a poem by Abu Firas, translated by A. El Tayyib, two verses by Abu Nuwas, translated by Julia Ashtiany, a poem by Ibn Quzman, translated by A. Hamori, lines from ‘Armoium Qasida’ by Abu Tammam, translated by A. F. L. Beeston, and a poem by Washsha, translated by A. Hamori, from The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Abbasid Belles-Lettres, edited by Julia Ashtiany et al. (1990); extracts from Arabic Historical Thought by Tarif Khalidi (1994). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. City Lights Books: ‘Satanic Panic’ by Abu Nuwas, translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson, from Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (1993). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.