Indexes
Index of Arabic and Persian Terms
ʿahd
70, 71
ahl al-kitāb
8
ʿālam al-malakūt
412, 416
ʿaqd
91, 272
ʿaql
71n, 72n, 80n, 148, 189, 190, 195n, 389, 396, 416
ʿārif
146, 170, 190, 264, 291–314, 320, 409
baqāʾ
140, 148
bayt al-midrās
30, 32
bidʿa
5
bukhalāʾ
92
dhikr
5, 30, 31, 62, 412, 441–443
dīwān al-inshāʾ
97
fanāʾ
140, 148, 149, 245, 394
fiʿl
148
fiṭra
409, 411n, 412n, 417, 428
ghināʾ
443–446, 448–450
ghulāt
73, 164–179
ḥadīth
3–10, 15, 17, 20, 33, 41, 87, 93, 166, 167, 175, 185–187, 191, 192, 197n, 199n, 219n, 229, 231, 233, 292, 310, 337, 339, 374, 386n, 387–389, 404, 444–449
ḥajj
142, 175, 217, 307, 313, 434
ḥisāb-i jummal
277n, 283n
ḥulūl
395–397
iʿjāz
91n, 92, 270n, 350, 351, 355n
ikhlāṣ
145
ikhtilās
91
ilhām
385, 410, 413–415
ʿilm
ʿilm al-ākhira
411
ʿilm ʿaqlī
336–338, 340, 344, 348
ʿilm al-ḥurūf
256, 262
ʿilm al-kalām
76
ʿilm al-kīmiyā
262, 265, 266n
ʿilm ladunī
408–410
ʿilm al-maʿād
411
ʿilm al-mukāshafa
393, 396, 407, 414
ʿilm naqlī
337, 338, 340, 344, 348
ʿilm al-nujūm
262
ʿilm al-raml
262
insān kāmil
248, 252n
iqtibās
91–93, 412
ishāra
91, 97, 263, 348, 349
isnād
3, 7–9, 12n, 13, 188n
istiʿāra
91
istinbāṭ/istikhrāj
91
istishhād
91
ittiḥād
395–397
jadal
342
jāhiliyya
27
Jinn
20, 147, 150, 231n, 280, 340, 392
karāmāt
140, 264, 350–353, 357, 358
khalwa
412, 442
khirqa
442
kufr
143, 360n, 388
lafẓ
93
madhhab
147, 165, 183n, 388
maghāzī
3, 6–8, 18, 20, 21
maʿnā
93, 171
mawlid
441
mīthāq, āyat al-mīthāq
70, 71, 191, 219
muʿāraḍa
355, 356
muʿāraḍāt al-Qurʾān
92
mudhakkir
4, 5
mufawwiḍa
73, 175
mujūn
92, 446
muqaṭṭaʿāt
183n, 283n
murabbaʿ
264
muraqqaʿa
186
muwashshaḥa
183
naṣārā
65, 390
nazʿ/intizāʿ
91, 93
naẓar
270n, 402, 411n
qāḍī
5, 186, 308
qalb, pers. del
51, 54, 55, 190, 268, 389, 390, 393, 411
qāṣṣ, pl. quṣṣāṣ
3–6, 9, 19, 22, 23
quṭb
306, 388n
rūḥ, pers. jān
75n, 190, 205, 213, 244, 312, 379, 389, 390, 391
ruʾya
412
saʿāda
383, 391–394
ṣabr
145
samāʿ
254, 296, 305, 308, 311, 312, 440–448
sariqa
91, 93
shāhidbāzī
254
sharīʿa
404, 424
shirk
148
ṣidq
143, 145, 147
ṣifa
139, 145–150, 170n, 227n, 394
sīra
3, 7–9, 17–19, 21, 22
sunna
402, 407, 447
tābiʿūn
6, 8, 21, 310
taḍmīn
91
talmīḥ
91
talwīḥ
91
tanāsukh
77
taqiyya
388
taqlīd
271n, 309, 408, 411
tawātur
82
tawḥīd
139, 145–150, 166, 167, 178, 278, 394
ḥaqīqat al-tawḥīd
171
ṭufayliyyūn
92
ʿulamāʾ
29, 30, 32, 140n, 171, 178, 261n, 272n, 292, 299, 444–449
ʿulūm
185n, 261n, 264, 270n, 335–345, 348n, 388n, 391, 396, 411n
ʿulūm gharība
260, 270n
wāʿiẓ /al-waʿẓiyya
4, 426, 436n, 437
walāya
256n, 262, 352
wujūd
252, 394, 406
mumkin al-wujūd
405
wājib al-wujūd
405
waḥdat al-wujūd
188, 406
aṣālat al-wujūd
406
zajal
183, 185
Index of Proper Names
ʿAbbāsa bint Jurayj b. Ṣanad
37
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās
8, 9n, 39, 48, 49, 192n, 219
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
18
ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr
11, 16, 17, 21
ʿAbd Allāh b. Muʿāwiya
174
ʿAbd Allāh b. Urayqaṭ
13
ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān
10, 15, 38
ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
6, 18, 173n, 175, 177
ʿAbd al-Qays
13
ʿAbd al-Razzāq
8–10, 21
ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr
36
ʿAbid Chalabi
294
Abraham
30, 39, 65, 66, 303, 308
Abū al-Aswad
19, 20
Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
6, 32, 11–18
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
186, 347, 380n, 383–417
Abū Hurayra
8, 9n
Abū Jahl
12–14
Abu l-ʿAbbās al-Mursī
188
Abu l-ʿArab al-Tamīmī
32
Abū l-Khaṭṭāb al-Asadī
176
Abū Madyan
186
Abū Nuwās
92, 93
Abū Qurra
35n
Abū Saʿīd Abū al-Khayr
239
Abū Usāma
14, 15
Abyssinia
5, 11, 15–17
Afḍal
97
Afghanistan
291, 317, 380
Aflaki ʿArifi
254, 293–296, 298, 302, 304–309, 313, 314
Agricola
48
Aḥīqār
56
Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Najāshī
165, 167
Aḥmad al-Ghazālī
254, 406n
Aḥmad Zarrūq
183n, 185, 188
ʿĀʾisha
6, 11, 12n, 16, 36, 446
Ajmer
323, 324
Ajodhan
325
Akhlāṭī, Sayyid Ḥusayn
266
Aleppo
36, 139n, 166n
ʿAlī al-Hādī
165
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
12, 13, 16, 78, 166, 167, 170–174, 177n, 271, 284, 285, 390n, 401, 402n
Alids
38
Almohad
186
ʿAlyāʾiyya
167, 174
ʿAmīdī
93, 97, 98
Amir ʿAdil Chalabi
294
ʿĀmir b. Fuhayra
11, 16, 17
Amīr Khusrow
302, 329
Āmulī, Ḥasan Ḥasanzāda
257, 273, 275–278, 280n, 282n, 285n, 286n
Andabūs
325
Anṣārī Harawī
141
Anṣārī Kāzirūnī, Abū l-Qāsim
261, 271
Aphrahat
53
ʿAqaba
11, 16
ʿArafāt
75
Archimedes
342, 343
Ardabīlī, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad
266n
Aristotle
366–372, 376, 379
Aristotelian
260, 337, 347, 349n, 373, 402, 414
Aristotelianism
376, 377
Arzanjani, Nizam al-din
294
Ashʿarī
72n, 231, 347, 349–358, 360, 361, 362
Ashʿarism
351n, 383n, 403n
Ashʿarite
231, 384
ʿĀṣ b. al-Wāʾil
20
ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatāda
20, 21, 39
Asmāʾ
6, 13, 15–17
Aswad b. ʿAbdyaghūth
20
Aswan
36
ʿAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn
245
Awadhī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Maḥmūd
322
ʿAyn al-Dawla
299, 300
ʿAynī, Badr al-Dīn al-
440
Azerbaijan
292, 293, 427
Bab Zuwayla
188n
Bābur
327–330
Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī
423–438
Baghdad
139–142, 241n, 324, 325, 351, 428, 442
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī = Shaykh Bahāʾī
256–276
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Walad
252n, 293, 294
Baḥrabād
325
Bākharzī, Sayf al-Dīn
325
Bakhtiyār Ūshī, Quṭb al-Dīn
321, 327, 329
Balkhī, Abū Zayd
84n
Bangladesh
316, 317
Banū ʿAbd b. ʿAdī
11, 17
Banū Mudlij
13, 14
Banū al-Najjār
11
Banū Numayr
185
Bāqillānī
351, 355, 357
Bashshār b. Burd
92
Bayābānī, Shaykh ʿAbdallāh
326
Bhagavad Gita
29
Bijāya
184, 186
Bīrūnī
342, 343, 366–368, 370–379
Bishr al-Ḥāfī
139
Bistāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
265n, 394, 395
Brethren of Purity
384, 389, 390n
Bukhara
323, 325
Bukhārī, Jalāl al-Dīn
321, 322
Būnī
259n
Buṣrawī, Muḥammad
82n
Busrī
140
Central Asia
293, 299, 316, 324, 325, 327, 329, 348
Chishtī
321–323
Christianity
26–28, 31, 33, 34, 36, 70, 298, 306
Constantinople
36, 48
Cyril of Alexandria
48
Damascus
26, 34n, 35, 36, 38, 139, 254, 256n, 306, 312, 325
Damietta
188, 189, 325
Deccan
317
Delhi
316, 319, 321–324, 326–331
Dhahabī
9
Dhū al-Nūn al-Miṣrī
140
Dimyāṭ = Damietta
188, 189, 325
Dome of the Rock
36–38
Durmish Khan Shāmlū
266n
Euclid
342, 343
Fakhr al-Nisa
313
Fārābī
261, 336, 337, 402, 445n
Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i Shakar
321, 325
Farrāʾ
49
Fars
268, 269n
Fatḥ ʿAlī Shāh
264
Fāṭima
78, 177
Fez
186
Franks
306, 311
Fusṭāṭ
35, 142n
Gabriel
12, 16, 20
Ghubrīnī
184, 187
Ghulām al-Khalīl
141
Gīlānī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf
266n
Gujarat
317, 319
Haji Amira
312, 313
Hakim Sanaʾi
312
Hama
448
Ḥamawī
98
Ḥāmid b. Fażlallāh Jamālī
316, 318–331
Hammām b. Munabbih
8, 9
Ḥamuwayī, Saʿd al-Dīn
325
Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī
93
Ḥarīrī
426
Ḥarīrī, ʿAlī bin Abū al-Ḥasan
254
Ḥārith b. al-Ṭulāṭila
20
Ḥarrālī
182
Ḥarranī
169–171
Hārun al-Rashīd
26
Ḥasan b. ʿAlī
78, 166, 172, 173, 177
Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī
165
Ḥashwiyya
79
Hawāzin
185
Herat
266n, 325, 328n
Ḥimyarī al-Dimashqī
98
Hishām b. ʿUrwa
10, 11, 15–20
Humāyūn
319, 330
Husam al-Din Chalabi
295
Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī
36, 78, 166, 172, 173, 177
Ḥusayn b. Ḥaydar al-Karakī al-ʿĀmilī
264, 265
Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī
265
Iamblichus
260
Iblīs
12, 18, 450
Ibn Adham
140
Ibn ʿAjība
183n, 185, 186, 188
Ibn al-Anbārī
49
Ibn al-Ḥājj
440–450
Ibn al-Haytham
343, 372
Ibn al-Jawzī
4, 5, 9, 49, 57
Ibn al-Mubashshir
189
Ibn al-Muḥayṣin
50n
Ibn al-Ṣayrafī
91, 93, 97, 98
Ibn ʿArabī
139–141, 187–189, 191, 201, 248, 252, 256n, 325, 393n, 448
Ibn ʿAsākir
141
Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Iskandarī
188
Ibn Barrajān
191
Ibn Bashshār al-Khurāsānī
140
Ibn Bunān
141
Ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣfahānī
93
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
9, 165, 188, 440
Ibn Ḥazm
165, 167, 174
Ibn Isḥāq
7, 8, 18, 20, 40, 66n
Ibn Isrāʾīl
185n
Ibn Jamāʿa
440
Ibn Khalaf al-Kātib
91
Ibn Khwārazmshāh, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Tekesh
336, 340, 341, 343
Ibn Kunāsa
93
Ibn Luyūn
184, 185, 187n, 188n
Ibn Masʿūd
36
Ibn Mubashshir
188
Ibn Mufarrij
97
Ibn Nuṣayr
168
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīya
440, 444n
Ibn Quzmān
183, 185
Ibn Sabʿīn
182, 184, 186–189, 384n
Ibn Saʿd
8
Ibn Sawdakīn al-Nūrī
139, 147, 148, 150
Ibn Sīnā
261, 267–269, 337, 340, 366–375, 377–379, 402, 403, 405, 406, 445n
Ibn Surāqa al-Shāṭibī
168
Ibn Taymiyya
187, 440, 445, 448, 450
Ibn Turka
257n, 261n, 262, 266, 270n, 272, 275
Ibrāhīm b.ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jarāʾiḥī
147
Ilyas Pasha
307
Imāmī
70, 72–74, 76–78, 81–87, 165, 166, 169, 174
Iqbal
377, 379
ʿIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn
325
Isḥāqiyya
166, 168
Iskandar Beg Munshī
263
Ismāʿīlī
384, 385, 387–389
Israelites
51–54, 61
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
173, 175, 176
Jerusalem
33, 37, 52, 58, 325
Jesus
27–30, 35, 37, 47, 50, 51, 54–56, 59–61, 64, 66, 173, 279, 299, 304, 307, 308, 353n, 390n, 394, 395
Jīlī, ʿAbd al-Qādir
324
Jillī
170, 171n, 178n
Jishumī
72n
Jubbāʾī
84
Judaism
26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 45, 70, 298
Juhanī, Muslim b. Yasār
83n
Junayd
139n, 142, 147, 148, 442, 447
Juwaynī
347, 351, 357, 362
Jūzjānī, Abū ʿUbayd
373
Kaʿba
77, 312, 313, 435n
Kaʿbī al-Balkhī
84
Kabul
328, 329
Kairouan
33, 40, 41, 142
Karamanids
292
Kashmir
317
Kashshī, Muḥammad b. ʿUmar
165, 167, 175, 176
Kattānī
141
Kemālpaşazāde Aḥmed
265n
Kerala
317
Khadīja
7
Kharaqānī, Abū al-Ḥasan
246, 250
Kharrāz
139–150
Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī
165, 170
Khwārizmī, Abū Bakr
423, 424, 433
Kirmānī, Ḥamīd al-Dīn
387
Kirmānī, Nāẓim al-Islām
263n
Konya
250, 292–294, 300, 305, 306, 311–314
Krishna
29
Kufa
35
Lāhījī, Mullā Muḥammad Jaʿfar
275
Lāhījī, Quṭb al-Dīn Ishkavarī
271, 272
Lahore
324
Lisān al-Dīn b. al-Khaṭīb
184, 185, 187
Lōdī, Ibrāhīm
319
Lōdī, Sikandar
319, 329
Luqmān
56, 57, 433
Madāʾin
166, 168
Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī
258, 261n, 263, 265–268, 271–280, 283n
Maḥmūd of Ghazna
328
Makkī, Abū al-Ṭālib
447
Malāmātiyya
241n
Mālik Ibn Anas
41, 444, 447, 448
Malik al-Manṣūr
448, 449
Maʿmar b. Rāshid
7, 10
Mamluk
187, 188, 256n, 440, 442, 444, 447–449
Maqarrī
184
Maʿrūf al-Karkhī
406
Mary
30, 51, 54, 282n, 299, 307, 353n
Masʿūdī
70, 165, 167, 174, 179
Mecca
10, 11, 14–18, 32, 141, 142, 187, 324–326, 329, 435n
Medina
6, 7, 9–11, 14–18, 21, 30, 32, 46, 54, 62n, 142, 325, 329
Mehrauli
320
Meknes
182, 186
Mīr Dāmād
261n, 262, 263n, 271, 274n, 275
Mīr Findiriskī
262n
Mīr Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī
266
Mīr Muḥammad Ashraf ʿAlawī
262
Mīrzā Kāshānī
266n
Mīrzā Muḥammad b. Sulaymān Tunikābunī
261n, 264, 275
Mizzī
9
Moses
27, 29, 30, 40, 51, 52, 55n, 61, 278, 279, 282n, 303, 304
Muʿādh b. Jabal
30, 447n
Muʿāwiya
5, 35–38
Mughal
258, 319, 327
Muḥaddis̱ Nūrī
265
Muḥammad
3, 4, 6, 12–16, 18, 20–22, 25, 27–32, 35–38, 40, 41, 45, 46, 51, 54, 60, 64n, 66n, 78, 166, 167, 171, 173–175, 177, 192, 205, 217, 227, 229, 235, 272, 285, 304, 308, 310, 327n, 340, 354, 355, 358, 361, 404, 434
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Bahlawān
147
Muḥammad ʿAṣṣār
329
Muḥammad Riḍā Shafīʿī Kadkanī
239, 240, 241n, 246n
Muḥammad b. Sinān al-Zāhirī
78, 177n
Mullā ʿAlī Nūrī
262, 275
Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī
259
Munajjim Yazdī, Jalāl al-Dīn
267
Mūsā b. ʿUqba
7, 8
Musaylima
354, 358
Mustanṣir bi-llāh
97
Muʿtamad al-Dawla Manūchihr Khan Gurjī
275
Myanmar
317
Nabhānī, Yūsuf b. Ismaʿīl
350
Nāgawrī, Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn
322
Nāʾīn
325
Najīb al-Dīn Mutawakkil
322
Najm b. Isrāʾīl al-Dimashqī
187
Nakhaʿī = Isḥāq al-Nakhaʿī
164–179
Naṣr b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh al-Shāfiʿī
189, 235
Nawbakhtī, Ḥasan b. Mūsā = al-Nawbakhtī, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan
81n, 166, 173, 175, 176, 178, 179
Naẓẓām
92
Negus
11
Nepal
317
Newton, Isaac
260
Nibājī
140
Nishapur
323, 351, 385, 423, 431
Niẓām al-Dīn Awliyā
321, 323, 325, 328
Niẓām al-Dīn Muḥammad Badāʾūnī
322
Numayrī
182, 185, 195
Nuṣayrī
164, 168, 169, 170, 177, 178n, 179
Nuṣayriyya
168n
Photius
48
Plotinus
260
Pythagoras
260
Qābis
186
Qajar
257, 258, 262–264, 270, 274, 275
Qalandar
239–254
Qalandariyya
187, 239, 240, 241n, 253, 254
Qalqashandī
92
Qibāʾ
14
Qūnawī, Ṣadr al-Dīn
252
Quraysh
11–14, 16, 18
Qurṭubī
444–447, 449, 450
Quṭb al-Dīn b. al-Qasṭallānī
187
Quṭb al-Dīn Ḥaydar Zāvaʾī
240
Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī
384
Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn
166n, 335–341, 343, 344, 347–362
Ribāṭ al-ʿUqbā
186
Rukn al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ
322
Rummānī
84
Ruwaym al-Baghdādī
142
Sabʿīniyya
187, 188
Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿĀrif
322
Safavid
256–263, 265–268, 270–275, 383
Ṣafiyya
6
Saḥnūn
39
Salmān al-Farisī
21
Samāʾ al-Dīn
322, 323, 326–329
Samarqand
323
Ṣanʿāʾ
8
Sanāʾī, Abū al-Majd
241n, 278n
Ṣanhājī
186
Sarī al-Saqaṭī
140
Sarrāj
141, 143
Sāvajī, Jamāl al-Dīn
240, 254
Shādhilī
183n, 188
Shādhiliyya
182, 188
Shāfiʿī
41, 424, 440
Shah ʿAbbās
261–263, 266–270
Shah Ṭahmāsb
262, 266
Shams Tabrīzī
244n, 248, 253, 254, 266, 294, 295, 306, 322
Sharīf al-Murtaḍā
72, 73, 80–82, 84, 85n, 86, 87
Shaykh al-Mufīd
72, 73, 78, 79, 81n, 84, 86, 87
Shaykh al-Ṣadūq
72, 77, 78, 80, 85, 87
Shaykh al-Ṭūsī
72, 73, 82–87, 165
Shaykh Bahāʾī
256–258, 261–268, 270–272, 274–276
Shaykh Bū ʿAlī = Ibn Sīnā
Shihāb al-Dīn of Ghūr
328
Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd Dihdār
258, 261n, 263, 265–268, 271–280, 283n
Shushtarī
182–192, 195, 201n, 219n
Shushtariyya
188
Siddhartha Gautama
27
Sijzī, Muʿīn al-Dīn
321, 323–325
Siraj al-din
294
Solomon’s temple
37
Sri Lanka
317
Sufyān al-Thawrī
49
Suhrawardī, ʿUmar
186, 321–323, 325
Sulamī
140n, 143, 241n, 256
Sulaymān b. Yasār
74n
Sultan Baybars
440, 448, 449
Sultan Walad
240n, 245n, 252n, 294, 295, 306
Surāqa
13, 14, 18
Suyūṭī
440
Ṭabarānī
168n, 178n
Ṭabarī, Abū Jaʿfar
9, 10n, 49n, 54n, 66n, 70, 75n, 83n, 192n
Tabrīz
243, 248, 253, 269, 329
Tabrīzī, Jalāl al-Dīn
322
Tajikistan
293
Tamīmī, Bayān b. Samʿān
174
Ṭarāblus
186
Taşköprüzāde Aḥmed
265n
Tatian
51
Thaʿālibī
92, 93
Theryanus
297, 298, 308, 309
Tilimsānī
182
Toqati, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin
294
Ṭufayl b. ʿAbd Allāh
11
Tustarī
146, 148, 388n, 404
Ubayy b. Kaʿb
30–33
Ulu ʿArif Chalabi
293–295, 306–308
ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
28, 32, 33, 35
Umayya b. Khalaf
13
Umm Maʿbad al-Khuzāʿiyya
14
Umm Muḥammad
58
ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr
3, 6, 8, 10, 11, 15–22
ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
34, 35n
Wahb b. Munabbih
3, 8–10, 12, 15–18, 22, 39, 40
Wakhsh
293
Wāqidī
8, 18
Waraqānī
186
Wāsiṭī, Abū Bakr al
404
Yahweh
52, 62
Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn
83n
Yaʿqūbī
60
Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya
36
Yūnīnī
449
Zakarīyā Multānī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn
321, 322
Zamakhsharī
49n, 54, 55, 72n
Zarkub, Salah al-Din
240n, 294
Zayd b. Ḥāritha
36
Zayd b. Thābit
30, 31, 36
Ziyadāt Allāh
33
Zubayr
6, 17
Zubayrids
38
Zuhrī
7, 10, 11, 15–22