Index
ʿAbbasids
250, 271–272, 276–277, 289, 290, 292, 295, 296, 297
ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak al-Marwazī
76–77
ʿAbdallāh b. Ṭāhir
75
ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUbayd al-Ḍabbī
79
ʿAbd al-Malik b. Nūḥ
72
ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṣanʿānī,
6
ʿAbd al-Qays (tribe)
224
Abel, Armand
271
Abū ʿAbdallāh b. Ḥafṣ
79
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muʿadh b. Yaʿqūb al-Kāsānī
52
Abū Aḥmad
229
Abū Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid
79
Abū Aḥmad al-Zāhid al-Samarqandī
52
Abū Daʾūd al-Sijistānī,
7
Abuʾl-Fawāris Miʿḍād al-Ẓāhirī
275
Abū l-Fidāʾ
258
Abū Ḥanīfa,
5, 11, 13, 17
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Laḥḥām
74
Abū Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq b. Ismāʿīl al-Bābkissī
73
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Khālid b. Bunyāt
69, 73
Abū Jahl
236
Abū al-Kubāh
229
Abū Lahab
236
Abū Muslim
70
Abū Najāḥ Coptic Monk, Thirteenth Apostle of Jesus
280
Abū Ṭālib Rustam b. Fakhr al-Dawla
302
Abū al-Qasīm ʿAbdallāh b. Aḥmad al-Nasafī
78
Abū al-Qasīm ʿAlī al-Mikālī
65, 76
Abū ʿUthmān ʿAmr b. Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Fuqaymī al-Baṣrī
see al-Jaḥiẓ
Abū Yūsuf,
4, 11–12, 17
Adam
125–130
Adıvar, A. Adnan
239
Admonition formula
110
ʿAḍud al-Dawla b. Rukn al-Dawla
291, 293, 294, 295, 297
advice-for-kings
258
see also government, governance
al-Afḍal, Fatimid wazir
275–276, 278
Africa
251
Al-Afshīn
52
Aḥīd b. Zādhijah
78
Ahl al-ʿĀliya (tribe)
224
Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. al-Ḥusayn al-Surmārī
78
Aḥmad II b. Ismāʿīl
79
Ahwaz
294
ʿĀʾisha
160, 174, 180, 185–189
ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt
249
see also al-Qazwīnī
ʿajam
210–211
Akhlāṭ [= Khilāṭ, Ahlat, Xlat‘]
23–25, 28, 29, 40
Aḳkirmān
236
Albania (Caucasian)
20–23, 30, 34–44
Alexander the Great
245
Alexandria
256, 321
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
72, 224
ʿAlī b. Khalaf
275
ʿAlī b. Muḥammad (Zanj leader)
227–229, 231
ʿAlī Ekber
252, 255, 256, 258
alḳāb mashriqiyya
272n3
American Numismatic Society (ANS)
290
Amīn al-Milla (Trustee of the Community)
273
Amīna bt. Isḥāq b. al-Muqtadir
296
al-Āmir, Fatimid caliph (r. 495/1101–524/1130)
278
amīr al-muʾminīn
278–280, 282–283
amīr al-umarāʾ (‘Chief Amir’)
292, 297
Amirutzes, Georgios
238, 248
ʿAmmār b. Muhammad, head of chancery
273–274
ʿAmr b. al-Layth
77–78
Amu Darya
48, 51, 59, 61–62, 64–65, 73
Anatolia
260
Andrews, Walter
253, 261
Angel, angels
125–129, 140–141, 143
Apodictic saying
108–109, 119
Arab-Byzantine frontier
see Thughūr
Arabia
223–224
Arabs
221, 227, 238, 247, 249, 258
Aristocratic violence and Holy War
47
Armenia
20–44
Arrajan
294, 300
Asadabad
302
Ashras b. ʿAbdallāh al-Sulamī
50
Astarabad
304
astronomy, astronomical
237, 249, 257
atlas
237
Atlas al-Islām
238, 250
Atlas Maior
238, 260, 262
see also Blaeu
Atlas Minor
236, 258
Al-Awzāʿī, Abd al-Raḥmān,
4, 9, 11, 13, 17
Azaiez, M.
125n5, 140n2, 140n3
Azd (tribe)
224
Azerbaijan
20, 36–37
Baasten, M.
132n
Bāb al-Abwāb [= Darband]
38–39
Bādīs, Zirid ruler
273
Baghdad
250, 271, 289, 291, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 302
Bahāʾ al-Dawla, Abū Naṣr Fīrūz
289, 290, 291, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 301, 302, 304
Bahrām, Christian Fatimid wazir
280
Baḥrīye, Kitāb-i
240, 241, 242, 245, 246
Bakr b. Wāʾil (tribe)
224
Al-Balādhurī
20–46
Balkh
76, 78, 304
Banū Ḥanzala
224, 228
Barbara
222–223
Barbaria
see Barbara
Bardhaʿa [= Partaw]
23, 30, 34–39
barīd
74
Bardasir
301
Barjawān
273
al-Bārūnī (family)
322, 323, 328
Bārūnī, Saʿīd b. ʿĪsā
328
Bārūniyya (library)
322, 326, 327, 328, 330
al-Bashā Ḥasan
271n1
al-Bāsī (mosque and library)
326, 327
Basra
22, 220, 222, 224–227, 298
Baṭīḥa (‘the Marshes’)
295, 296
al-Baʿṭūrī (family and library)
322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328
Bāyezīd II
236, 247
Berber
223
Berlekamp, Persis
249
bidaʿ
148
Bin Yaʿqūb (library)
322, 323, 327
Bin Yaʿqūb, Maḥmūd b. Sālim
325
al-Bīrūnī
225, 276
Bisṭāmī, ʿAbdurraḥmān
249
Bitton-Ashkelony, B.
131n21
Bjerregaard Mortensen, M.
129n17
Blaeu, Willem
238, 239, 260
Bohak, G.
137n31
Bonner, Michael
47–48, 65, 76–77, 81, 235, 289
Bornu
223
Bosworth, C.E.
271
Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-ṣafāʾ)
248, 249
Brotton, Jerry
239, 247
Brown, P.
124n1
Brugnatelli, Vermondo
324
Buddhism
51, 67
al-Bughʿṭūrī, Muqrīn b. Muḥammad
324
Bukhārā
51, 52, 55, 59–64, 67–70, 72–75, 77, 79
Al-Bukhārī,
7
Bukhārkhudās
69–71, 73
Bunyāt b. Ṭughshāda
69
Būyids
77, 271, 281–282, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 297, 299, 300, 304
Bynon, James
324
Byzantium
235
Cairo
230, 243, 321, 322
Canary Islands
223
Canon criticism
114–115
Casale, Giancarlo
239
Caspian Sea
298, 301, 304
Castiglione
237
Casuistic saying
108–109, 119
Celālzāde Muṣṭafā
257
Chāch (Tashkent)
56, 58, 79
Chaghāniyān
51, 73–75
China
64, 79, 224, 252, 253, 255
Chinese Sea
245
Cihānnümā
236, 238, 258, 260, 261, 262
see also Cup of Jamshīd
Cilician Armenia
313, 318
Cloth
225
Columbus
236, 245
Commander, Might of the State and its Spearhead (al-Qāʾid ‘Izz al-Dawla wa sinānuhā)
275
commerce
54–56, 58–59, 61–62, 64, 67
communal meals
174–181
Complex sermon
106–109, 114
Constantinople
see Istanbul
Cosmos, cosmography
245, 248, 249, 250, 251, 259
conversion to Islam
55–57, 62, 81, 83
Counter-discourse
117
see also debate genre; discourse
Crete
259
Crone, P.
124n3, 134, 137n34
Crusades
220
Cultic formula
117
Dabīl [= Dvin]
23, 25–29, 40
dār al-khilāfa
297
dār al-mamlaka
289
Dardanelles
260
dawla (term in titles)
273, 276, 279, 282–283
Debate genre
116–119
see also counter-discourse; discourse; eschatology; polemic
Deictic formulary
Person deixis
112
Spatial deixis
112
Temporal deixis
112n69
see also pragmatics
Devil/Satan
125–127, 129–131, 140–141
see also Iblīs/Shayṭān Discourse
el-Dimeşḳī, Ebū Bekr b. Behrām
238, 260, 261, 262
dhikr
147–195 passim
Ceremony, elements of
153–154
Ceremony, location of
166–167
die corpus
290, 301
dihqān
48–49, 57, 65–66, 68, 74–77, 79–80, 82
al-dīn (term in titles)
273, 279, 282–283
dīnār
296, 297, 299, 304
dirhām
296, 300, 304
Discursive formulation
116n83
see also counter-discourse; debate genre
Dīwāshtīch
65
Diyāʾ al-Dawla b. ʿAḍud al-Dawla
293
Djaabiri, Ferhat
324, 325n17, 330
Djerba
321, 322, 323, 325, 326, 327, 328, 330
Doxology
91, 94–95, 100, 117
Droge, A.
131n20
duʿā
168
Dye, G.
124n2, 125n5, 128n13, 136n29, 141n39, 142n40–42, 143n43
East Africa
224
Easterners
271
Edirne
256
Eichler, P.A.
136n29, 137n33
El Barouni, Said
330
Elyot
237, 259
Emiralioğlu, M. Pınar
240
encyclopedia
248, 249, 250
English
254
Ennami, Amr Khalifah
324, 330
Epithet
93n13, 99n35, 100
Eschatology
95, 107, 116, 119
see also debate genre
Essentialism
106n57
Ethiopians
221–222
Ethnic/Ethnicity
202, 204–208, 212, 214, 215
European books
235, 239
Evliyā Çelebi
235, 236, 237, 238, 261
Exempla
95n22
Exhortation
95n21
al-Faḍl b. Yaḥyā al-Barmakī
51
Fāʾiq al-Khāṣṣa
58, 73
Fakhr al-Dawla
293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302
familial confederacy
291, 292
Fārāb
79
Farghāna Valley
52, 54, 56, 58, 76, 79, 81
Fars
293, 294, 297, 298, 299, 301
Fātiḥa, recitation of
181–184, 186
Fatḥ b. Khāqān
201, 213, 215
Fatimid caliphs
272, 277, 281–282
fatwa
148, 149, 182, 185, 192–195
Al-Fazārī, Abū Isḥāq,
4, 11–12, 16, 17
Fazzān
221, 228
Form criticism
91n2, 92–93, 106n57, 108n62, 115
Formula criticism
92–93
Fuad Sayyid, Ayman
279
Fusṭāṭ
221
Garama (modern Germa)
221
Garamantians
221–222, 228, 231
Genoa
243
Genre criticism
91–94, 115
see also genre studies; genre theory
Genre studies
91n2, 94
see also genre criticism; genre theory
Genre theory
91, 92n5, 97n30
see also genre criticism; genre studies
Geographike hyphegesis
236, 237, 238
geography, geographical literature
239
geographical consciousness
240
human geography
248
geography, maritime
241, 242
geography, mathematical-astronomical
247, 250, 258, 259
see also map, mapmaking
Georgia
20–21, 23–24, 27–35, 38, 40–43, 45
ghawz
47, 52
al-Ghazālī
155, 189, 192
ghāzī
51, 60, 76–78
qāʾid al-ghuzāh
78
sālār-i ghāziyān
79
ghulām
75–76, 80, 82
Ghuzz Turks
54–58, 65
government, governance
253, 254, 255, 256, 259
Greek
247
guilds & craftsmen
236, 241
Gulf of Aden
223
Güyük Khan
307, 312, 318
Ḥabīb b. Maslama al-Fihrī
20–24, 27–34, 39–42, 44
Hadith
153–195 passim
Hadith scholars and siyar,
6–8
al-Ḥāfiẓ, Fatimid caliph
280
Ḥākim, Fatimid caliph
273–274
Hamadhan
294, 302
Hamdanid
297
Ḥamīda al-Barbariyya
223
Harley, J.B.
237, 240
Hārūn al-Rashīd
48, 51
Hārūt and Mārūt
124n3, 141
Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ṭālūt
71
Ḫaṭāy-nāme
255
Hawting, G.
140n37
Headless construction
110
Henninger, J.
136n29–30
Herat
76, 304
Hijaz
222
Hippocrates
236
history, historiography
250, 253, 255, 262
History of religion school
91–92, 115
Homily
103n49
Hondius
258, 259
Ḥudūd al-ʿālam
53, 56, 58, 60, 67–68
Al-Ḥurra, of Yemen
see Sayyida Arwa
Hymn form
91, 94–98, 99n35, 100–103, 116–119
see also liturgy genre
Ibadi
321, 322
Ibadi siyar,
13–17
al-Ibāḍī, Ibn Sallām
326
Iblīs/Shayṭān
124, 125, 127, 129, 131, 134, 138, 141, 143
see also Devil/Satan
Ibn al-Abbād
294
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr,
9–10, 14
Ibn ʿAmmār, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan
273–274
Ibn al-ʿArabī
184
Ibn Aʿtham
21, 23, 38–40, 44
Ibn al-Athīr
76–77, 295
Ibn al-Faqīh
30–31, 35, 44, 53, 67
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
222
Ibn Ḥawqal
52–58, 65–67, 73–75, 238, 250
Ibn Ḥazm,
16
Ibn al-Jawzī
73, 295, 302
Ibn Khaldūn
222–223, 225
Ibn al-Khatīb
148
Ibn Khurradādhbih
53, 67
Ibn Maja,
7
Ibn Māsawayh
226
Ibn Qudāma,
9–10
Ibn Qutaybah
210, 211, 212, 215
Ibn Rustah
58
Ibn al-Wardī
249, 250, 256
Ibn Ẓāfir al-Azdī
78
Ifrīqiya
222
Ikhtilāf
8–10, 13
Illustrious Wazir (al-wazīr al-ajall)
272, 273, 279, 283–284
ʿImad al-Dawla
292
al-imām (term in titles)
275, 276, 279, 282–283
Imperative sermon
97, 110n66, 113–114, 116
see also sermon form
Imperial ideology
240
Inclusio
100, 106, 118
India
222, 252, 253
Indian Ocean
245
Iran/Iranians
206, 208, 210, 211, 250, 260
Iraq
20–21, 41, 43, 220, 293, 294, 295, 297, 298, 299
Isfahan
302
Isfījāb
49, 53–59, 62, 73–76, 79, 81
Islamic mythology
245
Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad al-Sāmānī
48, 52, 55, 57–58, 69–73, 75, 77–78, 80
al-Iṣṭakhrī
53–55, 57–58, 67, 74–75, 238, 250, 251
Istanbul
243, 251, 260, 321
Italian
238
Izmir
321
ʿIzz al-Dawla b. Muʿizz al-Dawla
295
Jaʿfar, Kalbid ruler of Sicily
273
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
72, 223
al-Jāḥiẓ
220–222, 225–228, 231
jamīl (slave)
221–222
Jamshīd
256
Cup of Jamshīd, Cām-i gītīnumā
256, 257, 258
Jarrāḥ b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥakamī
29, 40
Al-Jaṣṣāṣ, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī,
9–10, 13
Jawhar Fatimid commander, his title al-Qāʾid (The Commander) or al-Kātib (The Clerk)
272
Jazira
297, 298
Jebel Nafusa
321, 323
Jibal
294, 295, 297, 298, 301, 302, 304
Jihad
47–49, 52, 54, 66, 76–82, 220
Jinn
124, 125, 129, 136–143
Jiruft
301
Jurjan
293, 304
justice
258, 260
Ḳāḍīzāde Meḥmed
261
Kalbids, Sicilian rulers
273–274
Kalpaklı, Mehmet
253, 261
al-Karaj
302
Karakorum
307, 315
karaultobe
54
al-Kātib (The Clerk)
272
Kātib Çelebi
236, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262
Kaykaʾus II, ʿIzz al-Din
307–308, 313–315
Kaykubad II, ʿAla al-Din
313
Kazirun
300
Kērygma
104n51
Keyhüsrev II
307, 310, 318
kharāj
55, 77
Kharākharāf
57
Kharīdat al-ʿajāʾib
249
see also Ibn al-Wardī
Khaṭīr al-Mulk (Eminent of the Kingdom)
273
Khazars
30, 38–42
Khurāsān
48, 50–51, 53, 58, 62, 65, 67, 75–76, 81
khuṭba
289, 290, 296, 302
Khuzistan
220, 294, 297, 298, 299
Khwārazm
54, 57, 60, 65, 76, 79, 81
al-Khwārazmī
277
Kılıc Arslan II
311
Kılıc Arslan VI, Rükn al-Din
307, 309–310, 313–314, 316
Kirman,
298, 301
al-Kisāʾī, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh
222
Kīmak Turks
57
knowledge
240
Islamic knowledge
238
maritime knowledge
241, 243
practical knowledge
242, 243, 252, 260
cosmological knowledge
243, 245, 246, 251, 253
Konya
307–308, 310–311, 315, 317
Köprülü Meḥmed
261
Köprülü Fāẓıl Aḥmed
261
Korea
223
Kritovoulos
247
Kropp, M.
129n18, 132n
kutub al-tanwīh
275
al-Kutubī
226
Kufa
20–21, 40–41
Kyzl-Kum desert
63
Laṭīfī
253
Latin
238
laqab
271, 273, 277, 302
Law genre
93, 108n62, 117
legitimacy
255
Libya
221
Liturgical formulary
95–97, 100–102, 116–119
Liturgy genre
91, 93, 94n15, 94n20, 95, 96n28, 97n32, 100–102, 115, 116–119
see also hymn form
Logia
93n14, 103, 115n82
Luxenberg, C.
132n
Machiavelli
237, 259
Madīnat al-Salam (Baghdad)
296, 298, 309
Maghāzī,
6, 14
Maghrib
222–223
Mah al-Basra
302
Mah al-Kufa
302
al-Mahdī (ʿAbbasid Caliph)
51, 76
al-Mahdī (Fatimid Caliph)
271
Majd al-Dawla
302, 304
malik (as title)
273, 279, 282–283
Mālik b. Anas
147–195 passim
Māliki madhhab
152, 157, 164, 188, 190
al-Maʾmūn b. al-Baṭāʾiḥī
278
map, mapping
235, 237, 238, 239
Ptolemaic map
237, 239, 241, 247, 248, 258, 260
maritime mapping
238
military mapping
247, 260
mappa mundi
254
mappa regni
254, 257, 260, 261
world map
248, 251
mapmaker
237
al-Maqqarī
148
al-Maqrīzī
273, 279
Manṣūr b. Nūḥ
72, 74
maʿrifa
147, 173
Marw
64
masālik al-mamālik, Kitāb al-
250
masḥ al-wajh
185
al-Masʿūdī
223
mathal
113–114, 116–118
see also parable; paradigm; simile
mathematics, mathematical
236, 237, 248
Mawādd al-bayān
275–276
Mawriyān al-Rūmī
23–24, 40
Mawsil (Mosul)
298
Mecca
257, 321
Mediterranean
238, 245, 246
Meḥmed II
238, 247, 250, 262
Meḥmed IV
238
Meḥmed ʿĀşıḳ
252
Menāẓıru l-ʿavālim
252
mental map
251
Mercator
236, 239, 258, 259
Merchants
56, 58
Messenger-speech formula
110
Mexico
252
Meyer, B.
143n44–45
Al-Mikhnāsāī
148
Minov, S.
125n6
Mints
290, 291, 299
Mirabilia
245, 249, 251, 252
see also ʿajāʾib
Mongols
passim 307–320
moral economy
241, 255
morality
246
Mosques
51, 57, 71–72
Motif criticism
92n9, 93, 97, 100–101, 103
Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān
20–21, 40, 42
Muʾayyid al-Dawla
293, 294
Muhadhdhib al-Dawla
295, 296
Muḥammad
220
Muḥammad al-Jazūlī
148
Muḥammad al-Marwazī,
8–9
Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir
70
al-Muhammadiyya
302
al-Muʿizz, Fatimid caliph
272
Muʿizz al-Dawla, Aḥmad b. Buyah
289, 292
al-Muʿizz b. Bādīs, Zirid ruler
273
al-mukātaba biʾl-tanwīh waʾl-talqīb (correspondence conferring praise and titles)
275
Mukhtārah (Zanj capital)
229
al-mulk (term in titles)
282–283
al-Muqaddasī
49, 53–60, 65, 67, 70, 75
murābiṭūn
50, 59, 61
Murād III
252, 253, 255, 258, 261
Mūsā b. Jaʿfar al-Kāẓim
223
Musabbiḥāt
91, 93n13, 94, 95n23, 102–104, 107–108, 110, 114–115
al-Musabbiḥī
276, 279
Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj,
6–7
Muṣṭafā ʿĀlī
253, 255, 256, 258
Muṣṭafā b. ʿAlī (the Timekeeper)
257
al-Mustaʿīn
71
al-Mustakfī
289, 291
al-Mustanṣir, Fatimid caliph
278
al-Mustaʿlī, Fatimid caliph
278
Al-Mustaʿṣim
309–310
al-Muʿtamid
70
al-Muʿtaṣim
75, 213
al-Mutawakkil
212, 213, 215
Müteferriḳa, İbrāhīm
260, 262
muṭṭawwiʿa
52, 58, 65, 76–80, 82
al-mashāyikh al-ʿaskariyya wa al-muṭṭawwiʿa
79
raʾīs al-muṭṭawwiʿa
78
ṣāḥib jaysh al-muṭṭqwwiʿa
79
al-sālār al-muṭṭqwwiʿa
78
al-Muṭīʿ
289, 291, 295
al-Muwaffaq
70
mysticism
256, 257, 258
Mzab
321
Naʿīmā, Muṣṭafā
262
Nakhshab
52, 59
al-Narshakhī
51, 57, 59–60, 62–63, 68–72, 78
Narrative criticism
92n8
Al-Nasaʿī, Aḥmad b. Shuʿayb,
7
Al-Nāṣir li-l-ḥaqq, al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī,
5
Narrative formulary
116–117
Narrative genre
92–93, 94n15, 95, 103n49, 113, 116n83, 117–118
Nasaf
see Nakhshab
al-Nāṣir
289
Naṣr b. Aḥmad
55, 73, 75
Naṣr II b. Aḥmad II
65, 73, 79
Nationalism
202–206, 208, 216
natural history, natural philosophy
252
New World
236, 245
Nīshāpūr
65, 304
Nominalism
106n57
Nubian
221–222, 228
Nūḥ b. Asad
54–55, 75, 77
Nuḥ b. Manṣūr
304
Nūḥ II b. Manṣūr
79
Nūḥ b. Naṣr
68, 74
Numismatic evidence (coinage)
290
Nusḥatu s-selāṭīn
253
Oman
298, 299, 300, 322
O’Meara, S.
137n34
Oral formulary
93n13, 100
Ottoman, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman court
231, 235, 238, 240, 245, 249, 254, 257, 261
Owen-Hughes, Diane
235
Panjikant
65, 68
Parable
113n71
see also mathal
Paradigm
101, 117–118
see also mathal
Parenesis
103n49
Parthian Empire
51
Pastoralism
62–64, 69, 81
patron, patrons, patronage
235, 240, 242, 246, 249, 252, 253, 254, 261, 262
Paykand
49–51, 53, 59–65, 67, 74–75
Peel, J.D.Y
143n44
Persian
210, 211, 221, 247, 249, 251, 256
philosophy
249
natural philosophy
249
Pilgrimage
59
Pinckney Stetkevych, S.
134n25, 139n35
Pinto, Karen
250, 251
pious, piety
246, 253
Pīrī Reʾīs
239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 245, 246, 251, 252, 254
Pohlmann, K.-F.
125n5, 128
Polemic
95n21, 116, 118–119
see also debate genre
Portuguese
245
Pragmatics
112n69
see also deictic formulary
Praise for the Prophet
172
Prayer genre
93, 94n15, 100, 107, 108n61, 117
Preaching
103n49, 104n51, 113–114
Predication
97n32, 100–102, 110n67, 116–119
printing
262
Proclamation formulary
107, 113–114, 117, 119
Proclamation genre
100, 106–108, 117, 119
see also regulatory forms
Proverb
108n62
Psalm criticism
91n1, 94, 95n23, 97, 100, 101n44, 114–115
Ptolemy
235, 236, 237, 238, 247, 248, 250, 251, 258, 260, 262
see also mapping, Ptolemaic
Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ’s Kitāb al-shifā
172–174
al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd b. al-Zubayr
79
al-Qādir billāh, Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. al-Muqtadir
289, 290, 291, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 304
al-Qāʾid (The Commander)
272, 275
al-Qāʾid ibn al-Qāʾid (The Commander Son of the Commander)
272
Qāʾid al-Quwwād (Commander of Commanders)
272
al-Qāʾim
289
al-Qāʾim bi-amr Allāh, Fatimid caliph
271
Qālīqalā [= Karin, Erzurum]
23–24, 29
al-Qalqashandī
275, 279
Qarākhānids
70, 83
Qarātigin
54, 58, 73
Qarluq
54, 56–58
Qarmaṭī (sectarian)
220
Qarmāṭiyyūn (of Garamantes)
see Garamantians
Qazwin
302
al-Qazwīnī
238, 249, 250
Qudāma
53
Qul formula
107, 118–119
Qumm
302
Qurʾān, Qurʾanic
124–131, 133–135, 137–143
Qurʾān recitation
170–172
Al-Qushayrī, Abū al-Qāsim
162
Qutayba b. Muslim
69
Qutayba b. Ṭughshāda
69
Race
206–207, 210, 212, 215, 220, 231
rasm al-bayʿa
294, 296
Rayy
293, 294
Red Sea
223
Reed, A.
124n3, 130n19
Reeves, J.C.
124n3
Regulatory forms
Rule of exclusion
108, 119
Rule of order
108, 119
Rule of war
117
see also proclamation genre
Relecture
114–115
Renaissance
237
Reynolds, G.S.
125, n4–5, 128n11, 14, 136n29, 141n39
ribāṭ
passim 47–83
Riḍwān b. Walakhshī, Fatimid wazir
275–276, 279
robes of honor
302
Roman Empire
51
Rosary
164–166
Rudhan
301
al-Rūdhrāwarī
295, 297, 302
Rukn al-Dawla
77, 292
Rum Seljuks
passim 307–320
Rustow, Marina
276n18
al-Ruyan
304
Ruzzīk b. Ṭalāʾiʿ, Fatimid wazir
279
Sabuktakīn
295
Ṣaffārids
77–78
Sahara
222
Sahl b. Aḥmad al-Dāghūnī al-Bukhārī
71
Sakīna bt. Bahāʾ al-Dawla
297
Salāḥ al-Dīn, Fatimid wazir
279
al-Ṣāliḥ Ṭalāʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk, Fatimid wazir
279
Salmān b. Rabīʿa al-Bāhilī
20–22, 24, 33–35, 37–42, 44
Salvation history
95n22, 100, 118, 251
samā
170–174
al-Samʿānī
52, 73
Sāmānids
passim 47–83, 301, 304
Samarqand
52, 54, 73–74, 76–79
Ṣamṣām al-Dawla b. ʿAḍud al-Dawla
292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301
Sarrasin, Philipo
240
Sasanian Empire
51
Sayābija
224–225
Sayf al-Dawla (Sword of the State)
273
Saying
108n62, 109, 113, 117, 119
see also apodictic saying; casuistic saying; proverb; wisdom saying; worse-than saying
Sayyida Arwa, Sulayhid queen of the Yemen
280, 286–287
Schacht, J.
330
Schwartz, W.
324, 326
Sebēos
21, 23–25, 34, 39, 40, 42, 44
Segovia, C.
125n5, 128n11, 129n15
Selīm I
239, 255
Sermon form
95n22, 97, 100, 103n49, 104–109, 110n67, 111–114, 116–118
see also complex sermon; imperative sermon; simple sermon; wisdom genre
Sermon formulary
91, 95, 104, 106, 110, 116–118
Seyāḥat-nāmā
236
Seyfī Çelebi
252, 253
Al-Shāfiʿī,
5, 9, 16
Al-Shammākhī, Abū al-ʿAbbās,
15
Sharaf al-Dawla, Abū ‘l-Fawāris
292, 293, 294, 296
Shāhānshāh
298
Shāhnāme
256
Al-Shaybānī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan,
4, 5–6, 11–12, 17
Shiʿism
231
Shiraz
300, 301
Shīrkūh, Fatimid wazir
279
shuʿūbi
208n21, 210–211
Sibṭ b. al-Jawzī
295
Sicily
272, 273, 274
Sijillāt al-Mustanṣiriyya
286–287
sikka
290, 291, 296, 297, 300
bifurcation of sikka
299
Simile
113n71, 114, 116
see also mathal
Simple sermon
104–106, 110, 112–113
see also sermon form
Sind
222, 227, 231
Sipāhīzāde
258
sīra,
14–15
Širakac‘i
4, 26, 27, 33–35, 44
al-Sirjan
301
Sitz im Leben
91, 92n9, 93n13, 115
Sivas
307–309, 312–315, 317–318
Slavery
56, 59, 62, 75
Socrates
236
Sogdiana
50, 63–64, 68, 81
Solomon
133–135, 138–139, 142
Sonik, S.
137n28
Soucek, Svat
242
Spain, Spanish
236, 252
Substitution formula
101, 117–118
Sufyān b. ʿUyayna
155, 156, 158–160
Al-Sulamī
190
al-ṣulh
294
Sulaymān b. Jāmiʿ
228
Süleymān I (Magnificent, Lawgiver)
241, 252, 255, 256, 257
Supererogatory prayer (muntafil)
164
Suq al-Ahwaz
299
Ṣuwar al-aqālīm
250
Syr Darya
54, 56, 59, 61–62, 81
Syria
20–21, 40, 260
Ṭabaqāt,
15
al-Ṭabarī
8–9, 11, 57, 186
Ṭāhirds
52, 60, 70, 75
al-Ṭāʾiʿ, ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Faḍl
289, 291, 295, 296, 300, 301, 302, 304
tāj (term in titles)
285–286
Tāj al-Dawla b. ʿAdud al-Dawla
293
Tāj al-Dawla (Crown of the State)
273
Tāj al-Dawla wa Sayf al-Milla (Crown of the State and Sword of the Community)
273
Ṭalāʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk, Fatimid wazir
279
Tamīm (tribe)
224
Ṭarāz
56–58, 62, 81
Tārīḫ-i Hind-i Ġarbī
252
Taqwīm al-buldān
258
Taṣawwuf
passim 147–195
Tawfīq (slave)
221–222
Al-Tayāmun
155
Tengour, E.
136n29
Tesei, T.
125n5–6, 127n10, 140n36
Tezcan, Baki
255
al-Thaʿālibī
277
Theonym
113–114
Thiqa al-Dawla (Trustee of the State)
273
Thirteenth Apostle of Jesus (title)
280
Thughūr
47–48, 65, 76, 81–83
Tian Shan Mountains
56
Tiflīs (Tbilisi)
20, 27, 29–30, 32, 40
Tigris River
224, 229, 294
Tirmidh
59, 74
Al-Tirmidhī,
6, 10, 13
Tlemcen
149, 152–153, 164, 170, 176
Topkapı Palace
256, 261
Topos
104n53
Töregene/Turakina
311–312, 315, 318
transience
245, 249, 262
translation
238, 248, 249, 251, 256
Transoxiana (Mā warā’ al-nahr)
passim 47–83
Ṭughshāda
71
Tunis
321
Türgesh
50
Turkish
212, 249, 256
Turks
passim 47–83
Ubullah
224–225
Uighurs
64
ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
224
Umayyads
50
Al-ʿUqbānī, Abū al-Faḍl Qāsim
147–195 passim
Usrūshana
52, 74, 79
ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
20
Van (lake)
23, 25, 32
Varakhsha
69–70
Venice, Venetian
243, 254, 260
Vocative
95, 100, 104, 107, 110, 112, 116–119
Al-Walīd b. ʿUqba
20–21
waqf
54, 71–73
Al-Wāqidī,
5
Al-Warjalānī, Abū Zakariyā
15
Wasit
298
wazīr
294
al-Wazīr al-Ajall (most illustrious wazir) (title)
272, 273, 278, 283–284
Wellhausen, J.
136n29
Westerners
272
Wisdom formulary
91, 108n62, 116–119
Wisdom genre
91, 93, 94n15, 95, 101, 104n51, 106, 108n62, 115–119
see also complex sermon; imperative sermon; sermon form; simple sermon
Wisdom saying
108n62
Al-Wisyānī, Abū al-Rabīʿ
15
Witztum, J.
128n12
Woodhead, C.
255
Worse-than saying
117
Yahya of Antioch
274
Yamūt b. al-Muzarraʿ
226
al-Yāzūrī, Fatimid wazir
278
Yaʿqūb b. Killis
272
al-Yaʿqūbī
53, 55, 67
Yemen
222, 224
Yūsuf b. Buluggīn, Zīrid ruler
273
Al-Ẓaharī, Daʾūd b. ʿAlī,
5
Zanj
220, 222, 228–231
Zarāfshān River
64, 71–72, 81
Zayd b. Ḥāritha
160–161
Zuṭṭ
220, 222, 228–231