Index
ʿAbd al-Kāfī
155, 189, 220
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd al-Thāmit
61, 151, 224
ʿajam
52
ʿajāʾib
26, 32, 34–35, 44, 73
ʿAjāʾib al-Hind
135
ʿAjāʾib al-Makhluqāt wa-Gharāʾib al-Mawjūdāt
100
Abāqā Khan
95
Abbasid
1, 14–15, 18, 20–22, 32, 35–37, 46–47, 50, 65–67, 71–72, 92, 100, 115, 151
Abū al-Fidā
142, 147
adab
24
Adam’s Peak
60, 112, 196
administrative
1, 14, 21, 32, 37, 46, 54, 61, 66–67, 70, 72, 84, 98
Ahmad b. al-Sarrāj
159, 223
Ahmed Bīcan
144
Aleppo
55, 155, 159, 223, 234
Alexander Romance
115, 118, 140
Alexander the Great
6, 30, 92, 115, 118, 139
Alexandria
44, 53, 79–80, 110, 114, 151, 167
Ali b. ʿAbd al-Salām
102
Ali Ekber
147
Ali Khan
183–184, 250
Ali Khoja
101–107, 114
Americas
146–148, 176, 179
Antarctic
146, 176, 179
aqālīm
30, 55, 61, 107
al-ʿĀṣ
25, 34, 39–40
astrolabe
19, 31–32, 85, 159
astronomical
16–17, 27, 35, 39, 43–44, 71, 99
astronomy
16, 18, 23–24, 28, 30–31, 41–42, 47, 85, 142, 147
Atūfī
64, 142–143, 151, 217, 220, 224, 228–229
Azbak
152, 185, 228
Baghdad
9, 15–16, 18, 20–22, 30–32, 34, 36, 50, 53, 55, 66, 71, 75, 81, 84, 89, 95, 103–104, 132, 141, 159, 170, 175, 182, 184, 201, 203, 229, 240, 246, 251, 253–254, 256–257
bahamūt
135
Bakrān
98–99
al-Balādhurī
46
Balʿamī
91, 93, 105, 108, 115, 161
al-Balkhī
2, 23, 29, 38–39, 41, 49–52, 55–56, 58, 97–98, 240
Bayezid II
64, 140–142, 148–151, 155–156, 217, 220, 224, 228–229
al-Bayhaqī
92
Bayżavī
95, 100
Beatty, Alfred Chester
151
beautiful
2, 12, 47, 87, 89, 136, 186
bias
4, 8, 48, 65
biographical dictionaries
23, 28–29, 35, 37, 53, 73
binding
9–11, 105–106, 123, 130, 156, 159, 216
bird
25, 34, 39–41, 96, 118, 134–136, 160, 167, 231
al-Bīrūnī
16, 93
boom
93, 101, 120, 189
Buja
63, 65, 166
Bukhara
46, 50–51, 90, 92, 102, 235
Buldān
25–26, 28–29, 46, 142, 145, 147
Bursa
139, 167
Byzantine
17–18, 26, 32, 34, 40, 48, 63, 65, 69, 97, 100, 155
calligraphy
5, 9
captain
134–136
cardinal points
4, 32, 62, 64, 67, 71, 74, 86–87, 98, 100, 193
Caspian Gates
113
catchwords
10–11, 105, 123, 130
center
2, 4–5, 9, 12, 25, 31–32, 34–35, 49, 61, 66–67, 72, 97, 99–100, 102, 112, 125, 138–139, 141, 166–167, 175–176, 197
chancellery
92, 139
Chinese
24, 93, 96, 147
climes
4, 19, 26, 31–32, 34, 42, 50, 66, 96, 99, 148, 224
cloudlike
80–81
colophon
10, 103, 121, 127, 141, 150–153, 156, 159, 183, 214–216, 218–235, 237–250
color
6–7, 43, 49, 67, 70, 74, 81–82, 87, 101, 109, 125, 149, 153, 158, 183–184, 228, 233–234
coordinate system
19, 98
court
15–16, 20, 28, 37, 41, 90, 94, 121, 137–139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 156–157, 182, 189, 191
craftsmen
9, 141
cultural heritage
12–13, 90, 138, 181, 191
Cupola of the Earth
16, 112
Damascus
9, 18, 26, 32, 189, 191, 220
Deniz Atlası
146
dictionaries
23, 139
diplomatic
139–140, 146, 151, 180
dolphins
161
Dürr-i Menknūn
144
Edirne
139, 167
Encircling Ocean
17, 25, 38, 61–62, 64, 68, 107, 109, 115, 134, 161, 167, 170
encyclopedic
13, 30, 36, 48, 58, 88, 100, 136
Evliya Çelebi
144
faḍāʾil
25
Fārs
16, 53–54, 57–58, 63, 66, 71, 73, 80–84, 97–98, 108, 130–132, 170–173, 175, 190, 205, 210, 219, 230, 232, 239–240, 247, 249
Fārsnāma
97–98
Fatḥ Ali Shah
184, 245
Fatimid
55, 58
al-Fazārī
16
Firdawsī
91–92, 94, 98
fish
110, 114, 119–120, 133–135, 160–161, 163, 186
fragmented
2, 66, 73, 87
Fürstenspiegel
15
Gabriel
115, 119, 161, 163, 166
Genghis Khan
89, 95, 102, 122, 221
geography
18–19, 26, 28, 42–43, 50, 52, 139, 154, 186
Ghāzān Khan
93–94, 96
Ghaznavid
92
Gog and Magog
17, 26, 33, 39, 44, 68–69, 112–113
gourd
161, 166
graves
132–133
Great Mongol Shāhnāma
94–95, 115
Greek
4, 14–15, 17–18, 20, 23–24, 31–32, 42–43, 48, 64, 113, 139, 154, 190, 215
guest house
73
Habsburg Empire
139, 148
Ḥāfiẓ-i Abrū
115, 161
Hagia Sophia
139
hajj
54, 71, 84, 176
al-Ḥajjāj
46–47
Ḥājjī-Khan
103
al-Hakkārī
153–154
halo
114–115, 118–120, 166
harmony
81–82, 88, 101
al-Hatīb
145
Hejaz
25, 30, 33, 39, 170, 175
Herat
51, 90, 140, 210–211
Hishām
15, 25, 132
Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam
97
Ibn al-Faqīh
25, 28–29, 34–36, 39–40, 44–46, 64, 66, 71–72
Ibn Ḥawqal
2, 50–56, 58, 64, 69, 97, 101, 104–105, 121, 150, 154, 158, 215, 221
Ibn Khurrādadhbih
26, 29, 31–32, 36–37, 50, 55, 68, 71, 73, 97, 99, 104, 226
Ibn Rustah
29–30, 34–35, 37, 64–65, 99
Ibn Sāvjī
128, 130, 182, 225
Ibn al-Wardī
133–134, 145
icons
5–7, 68, 70, 109–110, 155, 158, 222
identifier
82–83, 85
al-Idrīsī
112
ifranja
112–113
Ilkhans
12, 89–90, 93–96, 100–101
imperial
4, 15, 36–37, 43, 47–48, 66, 101
indexes
5–6
Indian
14, 16, 24–25, 41, 57, 64, 112, 136
ink
10, 170, 214, 239–240, 247
Īraj Afshār
122
Iranian lands
12–13, 41, 56, 89, 93, 96–97, 100–101, 112, 122, 124, 129, 136, 175, 191
īrānshahr
17, 34, 100–101
Iraq
15, 18, 21–22, 25, 28, 31–35, 39, 41, 44, 57–59, 63, 71, 73, 97, 103, 123, 125, 160, 203–204, 218–219, 221, 229–230, 232, 245, 249
Isfahan
30, 32, 89, 104, 128, 130, 134, 141, 205, 208, 210, 225, 246
İʿlām el-ʿIbād fī Aʿlam el-Bilād
147
Jabal al-Qamar
110
Jahānnāma
98–99
al-Jāḥiẓ
21, 29, 31, 33–35, 65–66, 71
Jand
89, 101–104
al-Jayhānī
50, 55, 102–104, 108
Jisr Manbij
125, 129, 198
Jonah
119, 161, 163, 166, 172, 189
Juvaynī
95, 100, 102
Kaaba
66, 72, 80, 83, 110, 155, 175–176, 179
Kalīla wa-Dimna
15, 28, 90–91
Kaʿbanāma
176
al-Kāshgharī
6
Kazembek, Alexander K.
185–186, 243
Khitāynāma
147
Khusraw
15–16, 18, 45, 99, 230
al-Khwārizmī
24, 26–27, 34, 38, 43, 110, 153–154
al-Kindī
23, 27, 50, 189
kishvar
17, 32, 34, 67, 71, 101, 110
Kitāb-ı Bahriyye
146
Kremer, Alfred von
150, 217
kuttāb
21, 24, 36–37, 49, 73, 84, 88
Leitner, Wilhelm
183
lighthouse
44, 53, 80, 110, 114
linguistic
5, 26, 59, 90, 105
Madaba
48
madrasas
24, 27, 92, 139, 143, 191
magical
44, 47
al-Mahdī
18, 214
Mahmud I
149, 151–153, 160, 223, 225, 227, 229, 235
Majmaʿ al-Tavārīkh
115, 161
mamlakat al-islām
36, 49, 52, 65–66, 70, 72–73, 87–88, 100, 136, 186
Mamluks
89, 141, 170, 175
al-Maʾmūn
18, 22, 28, 41–42
Maʾmūnic Image
41–43, 145
al-Manṣūr
15–16, 46
mappae mundi
4, 6–7, 67–68
Marsili
157, 238
marvels
1, 26, 38, 42, 44, 47, 147
Masālik al-Abṣār fī Mamālik al-Amṣār
43, 145
al-Masʿūdī
15, 41–44, 114
Matrakçı Nasuh
175
Mecca
25, 32–35, 39, 54, 65–66, 71, 75, 81, 99–100, 108, 124, 147, 155, 158, 167, 170, 175–176, 223, 227
medallions
153–154, 156, 159, 223, 226–227
Mehmed II
12, 138–141, 143, 148–149, 156–157, 172, 227
Mehmed III
12, 138, 148–149, 172, 232
merchants
15, 55, 132, 134
merge
36, 49, 85
Michaud
182, 217, 253, 257
Middle Persian
15–18, 64, 90
miniature
6, 17, 53, 85, 87, 101, 110, 113–114, 119–120, 124, 126, 136, 154–155, 160–161, 163, 166, 170, 175, 179, 186, 226, 231, 246
mirabilia
47, 49–50, 68, 73, 99
Mirza Muhammad Ibrāhīm
158, 237
Mongol conquests
13, 94, 102, 122, 125–126, 129, 136–137, 166
Moses
36, 119–120, 133, 160–161, 163, 166
motif
114, 118–119, 163, 166, 172
motifs
26, 48, 109, 114, 119–120, 175, 189
Mount Qāf
17, 109, 160
Mount Sinai
79, 119, 160–161, 198
Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Ibrāhīm
153, 220
Mujmal al-Tavārīkh va al-Qiṣaṣ
101, 110
al-Muqaddasī
29, 39–42, 48, 50–53, 58, 64, 101–103
Murad III
140, 148–149, 159, 231
Mustawfī
93, 100, 112, 122, 190, 239
Muʿjam al-Buldān
26, 145
el-Muvakkit
147
narratives
6, 22, 36, 58, 68–69, 136, 163, 180, 189
al-Nāṣiriyya
155
navigation
146
New Persian
90–92
Niẓām al-Mulk
92
non-Islamicate
31–32, 34, 38, 56, 65, 97
notes
11, 13, 121, 142, 150–152, 155, 181, 185, 189–190, 214–218, 225, 228, 232–233, 236–237, 240, 243–244, 246–248
Nuzhat al-Qulūb
99, 239
orientation
4, 8, 20, 61, 64–65, 70, 82, 85–87, 193
original
2, 14, 16, 53, 55, 61, 66, 82, 91, 103–104, 109, 114, 121, 127–128, 156, 167, 181, 216, 233–234
Ortelius
146, 176, 179
Ouseley, William
120, 221
pigments
7, 53, 119, 127, 232
pillars
65–66, 68, 88
Pillars of Hercules
115, 160
Pir Budak
141, 159
Pīrī Reis
146–147, 179
poetry
1, 14, 20–21, 24, 29, 91–92
Portolan
145–147
practical
37, 49, 73
Ptolemy
18–20, 26, 28, 31–32, 39, 42–43, 50, 64, 73, 139, 154, 186, 219, 238
pulpit
83–84, 131
Qajar
13, 121, 184, 245
al-Qazwīnī
100, 118, 135–136, 144–145
qibla
19, 31, 53
Qudāma
29, 31, 35–36, 55, 64, 71
al-Qulzum
41, 60, 75, 79–80, 133–134, 136, 166, 196, 238
Quran
24–27, 30–31, 33, 90, 92, 94, 142, 152
al-Qushayrī
190, 214
Rashīd al-Dīn
92, 96–100, 161, 163
Rawlinson, Henry
103, 184, 246
reference book
2, 13, 30, 49, 65, 70–71
religious
4, 22, 24, 30, 33, 35–36, 38, 42, 47–48, 50, 67–68, 99, 108, 142, 155, 167, 170
Robert Taylor
103, 184, 246
ruby
38, 99, 115
Rūdakī
90, 92
rule
2, 30, 36, 38, 42, 71–72, 88, 90, 92, 94–95, 98, 101, 108, 124, 130, 132, 139, 151, 214, 223, 227, 232, 243
rulers
15, 20, 24, 36–37, 44, 47, 71, 84, 89, 91–93, 95, 108, 130, 138, 181, 214
al-Rūmiyya
45, 230
Safarnāma
99
Safavid
98, 118, 127, 140–141, 158, 183, 191, 222, 225, 236–237, 240
Samanid
24, 35, 50–51, 90, 92, 97
Sasanian
14–18, 22, 32, 53, 65, 67, 90–92, 94–95, 98, 100–101, 115, 190, 230
Sayf al-Dawla
55
scale
2, 19, 41, 84, 94, 98, 127
science of the stars
27, 29–30, 37, 42
seafarers
133, 135–136
Selim I
140–141, 148, 170, 175, 229
Seljuq
92, 98, 102
Seven Sleepers
26, 99
Shāhnāma
91–92, 94–96, 101, 108, 115, 124, 140, 160, 189
Shah Sulaymān
158, 236–237
Shah Ṭahmāsp
140
Sheikh Ṣafī al-Dīn
183, 225, 250
Shiraz
41, 81, 89, 95, 119–120, 141, 159–160, 205, 221
al-Sijistānī
23
silence
80, 189
Simurgh
96, 135, 160, 167, 172, 231
al-Sīnābī
156, 227
Sindh
1, 16, 54, 57, 63, 88, 170, 205, 218, 232
Sipāhīzāde
147–148
Sīrāf
132, 166, 190
al-Sīrāfī
133
Sri Lanka
16, 38, 60, 99, 112, 115, 135, 166, 196
Sulaymānnāma
176
Süleyman I
143, 146–147, 149, 159, 175–176, 231
Sultan Qaytbay
152
Sultan Selim III
159, 226
ṣūra
38–39, 41, 45–47, 54, 61
ṣūrat al-arḍ
26, 28, 44, 50, 154
ṣuwar
38, 61
symbols
4–8, 44, 49, 68, 80, 140
Syriac
18, 90
al-Ṭabarī
22, 27, 45–46, 91–92, 96
Tabriz
94, 140–141, 156, 175, 184
tamthīl
38, 41
Taqwīm al-Buldān
142
Tārīh-i Hind-i Garbī
148
taṣḥīḥ
121
tax
21, 30, 35, 37, 44, 47, 49, 84
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
146
Timurid
115, 140, 161
translation movement
1, 14, 20, 122
travelers
26, 37, 42, 55, 74, 83
travelogues
25, 136, 147
Tripoli
77, 155, 189, 220
ṭughrā
148, 151, 159, 218
al-Tustarī
121–122, 221
al-ʿUmarī
43, 145
Uzun Hasan
140–141, 156
Venice
96, 146, 148
voice
24, 125, 131–132
vortex
133–135
world view
4, 20, 32, 143
Wright, William
185, 248
Yahuda, Abraham
151
al-Yaʿqūbī
29–32, 37, 71
Yāqūt al-Rūmī
145
Yuan
89, 93, 96
al-zanj
63, 65, 68–69
zīj
16, 29