Bardesanes, 364

Barmak, 259

Barmakites, the. See Barmecides, the

Barmecides, the, 255, 259-261, 262, 293

Barquq, Sultan (Mameluke), 452

Bashama, 119

Bashshar b. Burd, 245, 277, 290, 373-374, 375

-basit(metre), 75

-Basra, xxiv, 127, 133, 134, 186, 189, 195, 202, 209, 210, 215, 222, 223, 225, 226, 233, 242, 243, 246, 273, 281, 293, 294, 329, 331, 336, 341, 342, 343, 345, 346, 369, 370, 374, 377, 378

Basset, R., 327

-Basus, 56

-Basus, the War of, 55-60, 61, 76, 107, 114

-Batiniyya (Batinites), 381, 382, 402. See Isma‘ilis, the

-Battani, 361

-bayan, 283

-Bayan al-Mughrib, 407

Bayard, 191

Bayazid of Bistam, 391, 460. See Abu Yazid al-Bistami

Baybars, Sultan (Mameluke), 447, 448

-Baydawi, 145, 179

bayt(verse), 74, 77

Baytu ’l-Hikma, at Baghdad, 359

-Bazbaz, 60

Bedouin view of life, the, 136

Bedouin warfare, character of, 54, 55

Bedouin women, Mutanabbi's descriptions of, 310

Benu Marthad ^im, 11

Berber insurrection in Africa, 405

Berbers, the, 204, 274, 405-409, 413, 420, 423, 424, 429-432, 442, 443

Berbers, used as mercenaries, 407

Berlin Royal Library, 8, 12

Bevan, Prof. A. A., 46, 80, 129, 151, 166, 168, 199, 205, 239, 244, 253, 356, 373, 374, 375

Beyrout, 238, 469

Bibliographical Dictionary, by Hajji Khalifa, 456

Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum, 356

Bidpai, the Fables of, 330, 346

Bilqis, 18

-Bimaristan al-‘Adudi, 266

Biographies of poets, 346, 347, 348

Birnam Wood, 25

-Biruni (Abu Rayhan), 269, 280, 361

Bishr b. Abi Khazim (poet), 86

Bishr al-Hafi, 228

Bishr b. -Mu‘tamir, 369

Bistam, 391

Blick, J. S., 184, 249, 258

Black, the colour of the ‘Abbasids, 220, 262

Black Stone in the Ka‘ba, the, 63, 274, 319, 467

Blunt, Lady Anne, 88, 101

Blunt, Wilfrid, 88, 101

Bobastro, 410

Boer, T. J. de, 433

Bohlen, 308, 312

Bokhara, 203, 265, 275, 360

Book of Examples, the, by Ibn Khaldun, 437

Book of Sibawayhi, the, 343

Book of the Thousand Tales, the.See Hazar Afsan

Book of Viziers, the, 458

Books, the Six Canonical, 337

Boswell, 144, 313, 452

Brethren of Purity, the, 370-372

British Museum, the, 12, 402

Brockelmann, C., 205, 236, 237, 308, 328, 339, 346, 349, 449, 459, 468, 469

Browne, Prof. E. G., 29, 42, 185, 217, 218, 230, 247, 251, 258, 265, 272, 275, 290, 329, 346, 362, 375, 381, 383, 394, 399, 445

Bruuml;nnow, R. E., 32, 35, 49, 51, 209, 210

Brutus, 252

Bu‘ath, battle of, 170

Buddha, 297, 298

Buddhism, 373, 375, 390, 391. See Nirvana

-Buhturi (poet), 130, 316, 324

Bujayr b. ‘Amr, 58

Bukhara. See Bokhara

-Bukhari, 144, 146, 151, 337

Bulaq, 469

Bunyan, 212

Burckhardt, 95, 465, 466, 467

Burd, 373

-Burda, 326, 327

-burda(the Prophet's mantle), 327, 366

Burji Mamelukes, the, 447

Burns, Robert, 450

burnus, the, a mark of asceticism, 210

Burton, Sir Richard, 459

Busir, 326

-Busiri (poet), 326, 327

Buthayna, 238

Butrites, the, a Shi‘ite sect, 297

Buwayhid dynasty, the, 264, 266-268, 271, 275, 303, 338

Byzantine Empire, the, 3, 29, 46, 171, 255, 261, 269, 359

C

Cadiz, 405

Cæsar, 252

Cætani, Prince, 149, 155, 156, 171

Cairo, 275, 350, 394, 395, 437, 447, 448, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 458, 461, 464, 469

Caliph, the, must belong to Quraysh, 207

Caliph, name of the, mentioned in the Friday sermon, 263, 264; stamped on the coinage, 264; title of, assumed by the Fatimids, 271; by the Umayyads of Spain, 412

Caliphs, the, -Mas‘udi's account of, 354

Caliphs, the ‘Abbasid. See ‘Abbasids, theCaliphs, the Orthodox, xxiii, xxvii, 181-193

Caliphs, the Umayyad. See Umayyad dynasty, the

Calpe, 204

Campbell, D., 360

Canaanites, the, 3

Canonical Books, the Six, 337

Capuchins, the, 228

Carmathians, the, 272, 274, 322, 324, 371, 375, 381, 467. See Fatimid dynasty; Isma‘ilis

Carmona, 437

Casanova, P., 371

Caspian Sea, the, xxviii, 21, 264, 266, 350, 352, 391

Castile, 422, 437

Castles of -Yemen, the, 24

Catharine of Siena, 233

Cathay, xxv

Caussin de Perceval, 32

Cave-dwellers of Khurasan, the, 232

Celibacy condemned by Muhammad, 224

Cemetery of the Sufis, the, at Damascus, 463

Ceuta, 405, 412, 423, 434

Ceylon, 352

Chagar Beg, 275

Charles the Hammer, 204

Charter, the, drawn up by Muhammad for the people of Medina, 173

Chaucer, 289

Chauvin, Victor, 214

Chenery, T., 244, 328, 332, 333, 336

Chihrazad, 457

China, 203, 352, 419, 444

Chingiz Khan, 444

Christian poets who wrote in Arabic, 138, 139

Christianity in Arabia, 117, 137-140; in Ghassán, 51, 54, 123; at -Hira, 39, 41, 43, 44, 46, 49, 123, 124, 138; in Najran, 26, 27, 124, 137; in Moslem Spain, 407, 411, 412, 413, 414-415, 431, 435, 441

Christianity, influence of, on Muhammadan culture, xxii, 176, 177, 216, 221, 231, 389, 390

Christians, Monophysite, 51

Christians, supposed by Moslems to wear a girdle, 461

Christians at the Umayyad court, 221, 240, 241

Chronology of Ancient Nations, the, by -Biruni, 361

Church and State, regarded as one by Moslems, 170, 182, 197

Chwolsohn, 363

Classicism, revolt against, 287-289

Cleopatra, 34

Coinage, Arabic, introduced by ‘Abdu ’l-Malik, 201

Commercial terms derived from Arabic, 281

Companions of the Prophet, biographies of the, 144, 356, 456

Confession of faith, the Muhammadan, 403

Conquests, the early Muhammadan, work on the, 349

Constantinople, xxix, 29, 45, 52, 84, 104, 318, 362, 412

Cordova, 131, 341, 347, 406-411, 412, 413-415, 418, 420-426, 428, 434, 435

Cordova, the University of, 420

Courage, Arabian, the nature of, 82

Criticism of Ancient and Modern Poets, 283-289

Cromwell, 189

Crusade, the Third, 275

Crusaders, the, 331, 447

Cruttenden, 8

Ctesiphon, 47, 48, 210. See -Mada’in

Cureton, 211, 216, 341

D

Dabba (tribe), xix -Dahab al-‘Ijli, 44

Dahis (name of a horse), 61

Dahis and -Ghabrá, the War of, 61, 62, 114, 116

-dahriyyun, 381

da‘i(missionary), 249, 272

-Daja‘ima, 50

-Dajjal (the Antichrist), 216

dakhil, 95

Damascus, xxi, xxviii, 13, 46, 51, 53, 54, 111, 181, 104, 195, 202, 203, 207, 235, 240, 241, 242, 244, 247, 252, 255, 274, 304, 313, 335, 340, 374, 386, 399, 408, 451, 462, 463

-Damigh, 375

Daniel, 162

Dante, 360, 404

dapir(Secretary), 257

Daqiqi, Persian poet, 265

Daraya, 386

Darius, 256

Darmesteter, J., 217

Daru ’l-Rum (Constantinople), 362

Daughters, the birth of, regarded as a misfortune, 91, 156

Daughters of Allah, the, 135, 156

Davidson, A. B., 82

dawidar( dawadar), 445

Daws Dhu Tha‘laban, 27

-Daylam, 266

Dead Sea, the, 249

Decline of the Caliphate, 257, 263

Derenbourg, H., 54, 122, 123, 194, 260, 331, 445, 454

Dervish orders, the, 393

Desecration of the tombs of the Umayyad Caliphs, 205

-Dhahabi (Shamsu ’l-Din), historian, 339, 446, 454

Dhamar‘ali Dhirrih, 10

Dhu ’l-Khalasa, name of an idol, 105

Dhu ’l-Khursayn (name of a sword), 96