Kosegarten, 128

Krehl, L., 151, 360

Kremer, Alfred von, 13, 14, 18, 19, 23, 24, 101, 139, 140, 220, 221, 225, 233, 279, 281, 302, 304, 316, 318, 321, 323, 324, 360, 373, 379, 383, 399, 439

-Kufa, xxiv, 38, 70, 127, 133, 134, 186, 189, 193, 196, 198, 202, 207-210, 215, 218, 219, 229, 250, 253, 291, 293, 296, 304, 342, 343, 344

-Kulab, battle of, 253

Kulayb (tribe), 244, 245

Kulayb b. Rabi‘a, 5, 55, 56, 57, 76, 93

Kulayb b. Wa’il, 110. See Kulayb b. Rabi‘a

Kulthum b. Malik, 110

-Kumayt (poet), 138

kunya(name of honour), 45, 50, 112

-Kusa‘i, 244

Kuthayyir (poet), 216

-kutub al-sitta(the Six Books), 337

-Kutubi, 449, 452

L

La Fontaine, 469

Labid (poet), 50, 109, 119-121, 128, 139, 140

Lagrange, Grangeret de, 396, 417

Lahore, 268

Lakhmites, the, of -Hira, 33, 38, 39-49, 54, 69

Lamis (name of a woman), 82

Lamiyyatu ’l-‘Ajam, 326

Lamiyyatu ’l-‘Arab, 79, 80, 89, 134, 326

Lamta (tribe), 429

Lamtuna (tribe), 429

Lane, E. W., 53, 164, 448, 459

Lane-Poole, Stanley, 264, 275, 371, 432

-Lat (goddess), 135, 155

Lata’ifu ’l-Minan, 464

Latifi (Turkish biographer), 460

Laus duplex (rhetorical figure), 311

Law, Muhammadan, the schools of, 283, 284, 363, 465; the first corpus of, 337

Lawaqihu ’l-Anwar, 225, 226, 392

-Lawh al-Mahfuz, 163, 378

Layla, mother of ‘Amr b. Kulthum, 44, 109, 110

Layla, the beloved of -Majnun, 238

Le Strange, G., 256, 356, 357

Learning, Moslem enthusiasm for, 281

Lees, Nassau, 386

Leo the Armenian, 359

Letter-writing, the art of, 267

Lexicon, the first Arabic, 343

Library of Nuh II, the Samanid, 265, 266; of Hakam II, the Spanish Umayyad, 419

Linguistic Sciences, the, 282

Lippert, 370

Lisanu ’l-Arab, 456

Lisanu ’l-Din Ibnu ’l-Khatib. See Ibnu ’l-Khatib

Literary culture despised by the Arabs, 278

litham, 423

Littmann, Enno, 73

Logos, the, 403

Lollards, the, 374

Longland, 450

Loth, O., 1

Lourdes, 382

Love, Divine, the keynote of Sufiism, 231; two kinds of, 234; an ineffable mystery, 387; hymn of, 396; in Sufi poetry, 234, 397, 398, 402, 403

Loyalty, as understood by the heathen Arabs, 83-85

Lucian, 319

-lugha(Lexicography), 283

Luhayy, 63

Lull, Raymond, 404

Lu’lu’, 304

Luqman b. ‘Ad (king), 2, 14

-Luzumiyyat, 315, 316, 319, 323, 324

Luzumu ma la yalzam, 315. See -Luzumiyyat

Lyall, Sir Charles, 32, 54, 71, 75, 82, 89, 92, 97, 101, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120, 121, 125, 129, 139, 140, 149

M

Ma’ al-Sama (surname), 41

Ma’ab, 63

ma‘ad(place of return), 215

Ma‘add, xix, xx, 112

Ma‘arratu ’l-Nu‘man, 313, 314, 323

-Ma‘arri (Abu ’l-‘Ala), 448. See Abu ’l-‘Ala al-Ma‘arri

Ma‘bad (singer), 236

Ma‘bad al-Juhani, 224

Macbeth, Arabian parallel to an incident in, 25

Macdonald, D. B., 273, 378, 382, 433

Macedonia, 276

Machiavelli, 439

Macoraba, 5, 62

Madagascar, 352

-Mada’in (Ctesiphon), 29, 33, 46, 47, 48. See Ctesiphon

Mada’in Salih, 3

-madh al-muwajjah, 311

-madid(metre), 98

madih(panegyric), 78, 294

Madinatu ’l-Salam, 255. See Baghdad

Madrid, 420

mafakhir, 100

maghazi, 247

-Maghrib, 460

Magi (Magians), the. See Zoroastrians, the

Magian fire-temple at Balkh, the, 259

Mahaffy, J. P., 82

Mahdi, the, 216, 217, 248, 249, 274, 431

-Mahdi, the Caliph, 103, 128, 257, 258, 296, 343, 367, 373, 374, 418

-Mahdiyya, 274

Mahmud (Ghaznevid), 268-269, 355

Mahra, dialect of, xxi

Maimonides, 434

Majdu ’l-Din al-Fúrúzábádú. See -Fúrúzábádú -Majmu‘ al-Mubarak, 355

-Majnun, 238

majnun, 165

Malaga, 410, 421, 428, 434

Malik (boon companion of Jadhima), 35

Malik (brother of Qays b. Zuhayr), 61

Malik the Azdite, 34

Malik, the slayer of -Khatim b. ‘Adi, 94, 95

Malik b. Anas, 284, 337, 366, 408

-Malik al-Dillil (title of Imru’u ’l-Qays), 104

-Malik al-Kamil (Ayyubid), 395, 434

-Malik al-Salih Najmu’l-Din (Ayyubid), 447

Malik Shah (Seljuq), 275, 276, 326, 340

-Malik al-Zahir (Ayyubid), 275

-Malik al-Zahir Baybars. See Baybars, Sultan

Malikite books burned by the Almohades, 433

Malikite school of Law, the, 408

Mameluke dynasty, the, xxix, 442, 446, 447, 448, 453, 464

Mamelukes, the, 413

mamluk, 447

-Ma’mun, the Caliph, 92, 129, 255, 257, 262, 283, 284, 302, 343, 358-359, 361, 368, 369, 373, 388

Manat (goddess), 135, 155

Mandeville, Sir John, xxv

Manfred, 441

-Manfuha, 124

Mani (Manes), 364, 375

Manichæans, the, 218, 297, 341, 372-375. See Zindiqs, the

-Mansur, the Caliph, 128, 206, 252, 253, 255, 257, 258-259, 291, 314, 337, 346, 349, 358, 373, 407

Mansur I (Samanid), 265, 352

-Mansur Ibn Abi ‘Amir, 412, 413, 426

Mantle Ode (-Burda), the, 326, 327

maqama, 328

-Maqamat, of Badi‘u ’l-Zaman al- Hamadhani, 328, 329

-Maqamat, of -Hariri, 329-336

Maqamu Ibrahim, 63

-Maqdisi. See -Muqaddasi

-Maqqari, 399, 401, 413, 418, 419, 427, 436, 454

-Maqrizi (Taqiyyu ’l-Din), 453

-Maqsura, 343

Marabout, modern form of murabit, 430

Marasidu ’l-Ittila‘, 357

marathi, 294

Marathon, battle of, 174

Marcion, 364

Margoliouth, Prof. D. S., xxiv, 183, 267, 314, 316, 317, 319, 357, 469

Mariaba, 5

Ma’rib, 2, 5, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 50. See Dyke of Ma’rib

Maridin, 449

ma‘rifat(gnosis), 386

Marinid dynasty, the, 442

Mariya, mother of -Mundhir III, 41

Mariya (name of a handmaiden), 46, 47

Mariya of the Ear-rings, 50

Marj Rahit, battle of, 199

Marr al-Zahran, 95

Marriage, a loose form of, prevailing among the Shi‘ites, 262

Ma‘ruf al-Karkhi, 385, 386, 388

Marwan I (Umayyad Caliph), 199

Marwan II (Umayyad Caliph), 181, 251, 253, 347

-Marzuqi (philologist), 128

Masabihu ’l-Sunna, 337

Masaliku ’l-Mamalik, 356

-mashaf, 294

Mashhad -Husayn, 466

Maslama b. Ahmad, 420

Masruq, 28

Mas‘ud, Sultan, 329. See Ghiyathu ’l-Din Mas‘ud

-Mas‘udi, 13, 15, 37, 195, 203, 205, 206, 259, 260, 267, 349, 352-354, 387, 456

Materia Medica, by Ibnu ’l-Baytar, 434

mathalib, 100, 280

Mathnawi, the, by Jalalu ’l-Din Rumi, 404

-Matin, 428

matla‘, 309

matn, 144

Mauritania, 412

-Mawa‘iz wa ’l-I‘tibar fi dhikri ’l-Khitat wa ’l-Athar, 453

-Mawali (the Clients), 198, 207, 219, 222, 248, 250, 278, 279, 373

-Mawali (the Clients), coalesce with the Shi‘ites, 198, 219, 220, 250; treated with contempt by the Arabs, 219, 248, 278, 279; their culture, 248; their influence, 278, 279

mawaliyya, a species of verse, 450

-Mawardi, 337, 338

Mawiyya, mother of -Mundhir III, 41

Mawiyya, wife of Hatim of Tayyi’, 87

-Maydani, 31. See Proverbs, Arabic

Maymun b. Qays. See -A‘shaMaysun, 195

Mazdak, 42, 258, 364

Mazyar, 375

Mecca, xviii, xxiii, xxvi, xxvii, 2, 3, 5, 6, 22, 28, 53, 62, 63, 64, 65-68, 101, 102, 114, 117, 146, 150, 154-156, 158, 169, 171, 174, 175, 196, 198, 202, 236, 249, 274, 319, 339, 340, 395, 396, 429, 431, 434, 439, 466, 468