Index
Aaron
55, 166–67, 171–72, 175, 182, 185
ʿAbbasid history
2, 51, 58, 65–67, 75, 84–86, 106
ʿAbd-Allah Abi Naʿim Firuz-Abadi
50
ʿAbd-Allah ibn ʿAbbas (Qurʾan scholar)
55, 134, 215
ʿAbd-Allah ibn ʿUmar
55
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Nuh
102
ʿAbd al-Muttalib
203–4, 206–8
ʿAbd al-Razzaq Samarqandi (Timurid historian)
15, 46n10, 47
Abdülhamid II (Ottoman ruler)
39, 65
Abel (Adam’s son)
78, 132–34
Abraham (prophet)
12, 37–38, 54, 78, 112, 114, 120–23, 145–56, 195
Abu ʿAbd-Allah al-Taʾi
102
Abu al-Faraj Zanjani
46
Abu Bakr (first Sunni caliph)
55n70, 101, 114, 214–17, 220–22
Abu Bakr (son of Miranshah)
9
Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
68
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
46
Abu Saʿid (Qara Quyunlu prince)
9
Abu Saʿid Bahadur (Ilkhanid ruler)
48, 51, 11n22
Abu Saʿid Guregen (Timurid ruler)
44
Abu Saʿid Shibi
102, 112
Abu ʿUbayda
101
Adam (first prophet)
1, 3, 54, 58, 78, 132–34, 182, 195
Adamova, Adel
39–40
Afrasiyab
78, 100
Aghriras
78, 100
Ahmad Jalayir, sultan
9, 25, 36, 185, 187
Ahmad Yasavi
7n6
Ahmed III (Ottoman ruler)
63
ʿAʾisha
101
ʿAjaʾib al-makhluqat wa gharaʾib al-mawjudat by Qazwini
183, 190n61
ʿAjaʾib al-makhluqat wa gharaʾib al-mawjudat by Tusi Salmani
185–87
ʿAla al-Dawla (Shahrukh’s grandson)
19
ʿAla al-Din Muhammad Khwarazmshah
79
Alanqua (mythical Mongol queen)
6
Alexander
78, 195, 206
ʿAli ibn Abi Talib (Shiʿi imam)
6, 101, 114n7, 129, 214–15, 217, 220–21
Allen, Terry
135n3
Alp Arsalan (Saljuq ruler)
102
Alyasaʿ see Elisha
Aʿmash, Sulayman ibn Mihran
55, 134
Amina (the Prophet’s mother)
206–8
Amir ʿAli Shaqani (Shahrukh’s vizier)
19
Amir Arghunshah
49
Amir Israʾil
102
Amir Khusraw Dihlavi
28
Amir Vali
49
ʿAmr ibn ʿUday
79
angels
54, 116, 118, 146, 151–53, 156, 158, 191, 198, 200, 207–8, 210–11, 214
Anis al-nas
26–27
Ansari, Khwaja ʿAbd-Allah (Sunni Sufi)
19, 23
Anushirvan (Sasanian king)
101, 206
Anwar al-mawaʿiz wa al-hukm fi akhbar muluk ʿajam
50
Aq Quyunlu
9, 14
ʿArab Diran
79, 101
ʿAraʾis al-majalis fi qisas al-anbiyaʾ
53
Ardabil
39
Ardashir (Sasanian king)
79, 97, 101
ʿarza-dasht
25, 42
Asaf (Solomon’s vizier)
190–92
Ashab-i Kahf see Seven Sleepers
Astarabad
38
ʿAta-Malik Juwayni
50
ʿAttar, Farid al-Din (poet)
28, 31, 43, 108
Aya Sofya
31, 50–51
Ayyub see Job
Azarbaijan
9–10, 37, 46, 49
Babylon
145
Badakhshan
10
Bağdat köşkü
32n10
Baghdad
6, 9, 25, 37, 40, 42, 63n92, 87, 89, 185
Bagh-i Naw
23
Bagh-i Sifid
23
Bagh-i Zaghan
22
Bahman
100, 127
Bahram-i Gur (Sasanian king)
79, 97, 101
Baktuzun
102
Balʿami, Abu ʿAli Muhammad ibn Muhammad (historian)
33, 49, 53–54, 56–57, 90n178, 136, 167–68, 182–84, 195, 198–99
Balkh
10
Bani Israʾil (Children of Israel)
58–59, 113, 138, 151, 158, 168, 170, 175, 191, 195
Barkiyaruq ibn Malikshah (Saljuq ruler)
102, 112
Basatin al-Uns
89
Bayqara (son of ʿUmar Shaykh)
9
Baysunghur (Shahrukh’s son)
9, 20–21, 23, 25, 27, 34n17, 40, 42–43, 49, 51, 58, 108
Bazar-i Malik
22
Bible
59
Bihdadin
45
Bilal al-Habashi
215, 220, 221n5
Bilqis
190–92
Binding
39, 65, 170n41
Blair, Sheila
36n30, 59n83, 89, 111, 135n3, 170n41
Buddha
36, 60n88, 65, 90n177, 103, 111, 124
Bukhara
14, 21, 67
Buqra Khan
103
Buzjani, Abu al-Wafa
27
Byzantine
178–179, 207, 220
Çağman, Filiz
29, 86n165, 94
Cain (Adam’s son)
78, 132–34
Caleb (prophet)
55
Calicut
15
Canaan
156
Cartier, Louis
41
Chahar Bagh
23
Ch’en Ch’eng
14–15, 19n75
Chinese history
2, 16, 58, 60, 69–70, 74–75, 77, 80–81, 83–84, 86, 88, 96, 106
Chingiz Khan (founder of the Mongol empire)
6–7, 10–12, 19, 42
coinage
8, 10, 13, 218
colophon
26, 29–30, 32, 35, 36n30, 39, 42–43, 45, 59n83, 70n110, 72–73, 74n117, 77, 86, 89, 90n177, 93–94, 96, 98–99, 106, 185
crown
114, 116, 124, 136, 147, 152, 163, 168, 171–72, 191, 196, 210–11, 214
Damascus
6, 103
Dara
78, 100
Darab
78, 100
David (prophet-king)
55, 190, 193
Dawlatshah Samarqandi (Timurid historian)
18, 24–25
Dawud see David
Delhi
6, 15
demons
78, 124, 130, 184, 190–94
devil
132, 193
Dhu al-Kifl
55
Diez Album
28, 135
Dimand, Maurice
99
dispersed manuscript
2–4, 30, 63, 83–85, 89–107, 112
Diyaʾ al-hulum fi mukhtasar shams al-ʿulum
27
Diyarbakr
9
dragon
136, 138–39, 166–68, 170, 178, 183, 185
Egypt
36, 78–79, 130, 158, 160, 166, 168, 172, 174, 182
Elijah (prophet)
55
Elisha (prophet)
55
Enoch (prophet)
54
Esau
156, 158
Ettinghausen, Richard
42, 62, 108, 136, 178–79
Eve
54
Ezekiel (prophet)
55
Faʾiq (ruler of Herat)
102
fairies
78, 124, 130, 190–94
Fakhr al-Din (Kart ruler)
23
Falnama
145, 187, 190n61
Farabi (philosopher and jurist)
46
Farghana
8
Farhad Khan Qaramanlu (Safavid emir)
38, 64
Fars
9–10, 38
Fasih-i Khwafi (Timurid historian)
46
Fatimids
58, 77
Fawayid-i ghiyathi
31
Fereydun (king of the Pishdadiyan dynasty)
78, 100
Firdawsi (poet)
27, 50, 108
Firuz (Sasanian king)
79
Firuzkuh
9
Fitzherbert, Teresa
167
Franks, history of
2, 36, 58, 70, 74, 77, 80–81, 84
Gabriel (angel)
151–53, 156, 164, 170, 172, 210–11, 214
Garmsir
9
Gawharshad (Shahrukh’s wife)
9, 16, 21, 22
Gazurgah
23, 26
Georgia
9
Ghazan Khan (Ilkhanid ruler)
1, 12, 42, 218
Ghaznavids, history of
58, 65, 67–68, 77, 84–87, 93, 114, 127
Ghiyath al-Din Naqqash
14
Gog and Magog
55
Goliath
55
Gospel
195
Gray, Basil
36, 42
Grube, Ernst
42
Gruber, Christiane
44
guregen
13
Gurgan
8, 10
Gushtasb
78, 100
Habib al-siyar
17
Habil see Abel
hadith
21, 45, 49, 55
Hafiz-i Abru
life
45–46
works
48–49
Haj Sayyed Javadi, Sayyed Kamal
52
halo
98, 116, 120–21, 143, 153, 156, 170–72, 187, 196, 207–8, 211, 214
Ham (Noah’s son)
134
Hamadan
45
Haman (Pharaoh’s vizier)
171–72
Hamd-Allah Mustawfi (historian)
27, 48–50, 136
Hari-Malik Bakhshi
43
Harith ibn ʿAbd al-Muttalib
203–4
Hawiza
46
Hawwa see Eve
Hazarjarib
9
headgear
110, 114–15, 135, 137–38, 175
Herat
1, 8, 10, 13–16, 19–23, 25–26, 28, 33, 35, 37, 39, 40n49, 43, 45–46, 48, 80, 108, 219
Hillenbrand, Robert
221
Himyari, Muhmmad ibn Nashwan ibn Saʿid
27
Hisam al-Dawla Tash
102
“historical style of Shahrukh”
4, 91, 108–109, 112–115, 118–119, 124, 130–131, 139, 156, 219–220
Hizqil see Ezekiel
Hud (prophet)
54
Hulagu Khan (Ilkhanid ruler)
42, 80n151
Hurmuz (Sasanian king)
79, 97
hurufi
20
Husayn Bayqara (Timurid ruler)
94
Hushang (king of the Pishdadiyan dynasty)
38n36, 93
Ibn al-ʿAmid
50
Ibn al-Athir
50, 58
Ibn Khurdadhbih
49
Ibn Sina
46
Ibrahim see Abraham
Ibrahim-i Adham
17
Ibrahim Sultan (Shahrukh’s son)
20–21, 25, 108
Idris see Enoch
Ikhwan al-Safa
46
Ilak Khan
67, 79, 102, 112, 127
Il Arsalan (ruler of Khwarazm)
79
Ilkhanids
11–12, 24, 51, 70, 75, 77, 80–81, 86–87, 218
illumination
33, 40, 63, 68–70, 75, 88
Ilyas see Elijah
Imam Riza (Shiʿi imam)
19, 22
Inal, Güner
35n24, 62, 72n113, 74n119, 80n149, 81n155, 110n3
Inal Tigin
102
India
6, 14–15, 19, 45, 59n83, 74, 77, 79, 102, 110, 120, 166n35, 170n41, 219, 222
Indian history
2, 58, 59n83, 70–71, 77, 81, 84
inscription
13n36, 21, 26, 29, 31–33, 38, 41–42, 65, 68, 74–75, 77, 110–11, 119, 161, 219, 222
Iqlimiya (Adam’s girl)
132
Iraq
10, 49, 103, 183
Isaac
150–51
Isaiah
55
Isfahan
14, 20, 25, 28
Ishaq see Isaac
Ishiyushat (the son of Saul)
193n65
Ishmael (Abraham’s son)
54, 114, 150–53, 156, 203
Ishmuʾil see Samuel
Iskandar (ruler of the Qara Quyunlu dynasty)
9–10
Iskandar Sultan (Timur’s grandson)
11, 20–21, 25, 28, 34–35, 40n49, 108, 123–24, 131, 136, 148, 152–53, 219
Ismaʿil see Ishmael
Ismaʿil Hamawi
28
Ismaʿilis, history of
51, 58, 65, 69, 72, 77, 84, 96–97
Israʾiliyyat
55–57, 182
Istanbul
3, 27, 30, 31, 39, 43, 50–52, 62–63, 65
Iʿtimad al-Saltana
45
Jacob (prophet)
36, 54, 78, 156–60, 166n35
Jaʿfari, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Husayni (Timurid historian)
29
Jaʿfar Tabrizi (Timurid calligrapher)
25, 42
Jahangir (Timurid prince)
7
Jahn, Karl
75n121
Jalal al-Din Firuzshah (Timurid emir)
16
Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah
79, 86
Jalal al-Din Qayini (Hanafi jurist)
18, 20, 31
Jalut see Goliath
Jalayirid painting
36, 89, 108, 110n, 123–124, 131, 157–158, 164, 172, 179, 185, 187, 192, 207, 208
Jamal al-Din Kashani (Ilkhanid historian)
48
Jamiʿ al-tawarikh
Arabic copy
2, 27, 37, 63, 75, 88, 111–12, 131
divided manuscript
4, 63, 71, 74, 81–89
“Hazine 1653”
2, 30, 52, 57–88, 92, 111–12
“Hazine 1654”
2, 30, 32, 35–39, 52, 63, 75, 80–81, 87, 111, 164
illustrations
36, 74–79, 111–12, 135, 147, 171, 178, 184, 199, 204, 208, 210
“MS. Add. 7628”
12, 31, 60n88
“Suppl. pers. 1113”
12, 30, 41–42, 108, 120, 123–24, 131
text
1–3, 5, 11–12, 34, 41, 49, 52, 54, 58, 151, 183, 218–19
Jamshid (king of the Pishdadiyan dynasty)
37–38, 78, 100, 112
Japheth (Noah’s son)
134
Jaqmaq (Mamluk sultan)
14
Jawahir al-zat
28
Jazira
167
Jericho
182
Jerusalem
182, 193, 195–96
Jesus (prophet)
55, 100, 114n7, 120–21, 195–98
Jethro (prophet)
54, 57
Jinn
193
Jirjis
198
Saint George
Job (prophet)
54, 100, 163–66
John the Baptist
55, 195
Jonah (prophet)
55, 100, 112, 198–203
Joseph (prophet)
36, 54–55, 78, 130, 156–58, 160–63, 166n35
Joshua (prophet)
55
Jughrafiya-yi Hafiz-i Abru
48
Juzjani, Minhaj al-Din Siraj
50
Kaʿba
12, 206, 210n79
Kaʿb ibn Ashraf
101
Kalib see Caleb
Kamil fi al-tarikh
50, 58
Kanʿan (Noah’s son)
134, 137–39
Kaykawus (king of the Kayaniyan dynasty)
193n65
Kaykhusraw (king of the Kayaniyan dynasty)
78, 193n65
Kayqubad
78
Kayumars (king of the Pishdadiyan dynasty)
78, 100, 110
Khadija (the Prophet’s wife)
210, 214–15
Khalidov, Anas B.
8
Khalil Sultan (Timurid ruler)
8–9, 11
Khamsa by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi
28
Khamsa by ʿAttar
31
Khamsa by Nizami
26–27, 30, 39–41, 89, 109, 120, 222
Khanbaliq (Beijing)
14
khanqah
2, 21–23
Khanzada (a descendant of Chingiz Khan)
7
khilafat
13, 218, 221
Khizr
55
Khizr Khan (Indian ruler)
15
Khurasan
8, 10, 19
Khusraw Parviz (Sasanian king)
210
khutba
8, 10, 15
Khwaf
45
Khwafi, Ghiyath al-Din Pir ʿAli (Timurid emir)
16
Khwaja ʿAbd-Allah Taqi mausoleum
23
Khwaja ʿAbdulqadir Maragha-i (Timurid musician)
24
Khwaju Kirmani
108
Khwandmir, Ghiyath al-Din ibn Humam al-Din (Safavid historian)
10, 17–18, 46n10, 48
Khwarazmshahs, history of
58, 69, 77, 81, 84–86, 88n172
Kisaʾi, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd-Allah
52, 137
Korah
55, 78, 100, 112, 175, 177–81, 183
kufic script
71–72, 75, 119
Kühnel, Ernst
93
Kukiltash, Amir Alika (Shahrukh’s vizier)
16
Kulayni, Abu Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn Yaʿqub ibn Ishaq
55
Kul Erki Khan
79
Kulliyat-i tarikhi
3, 17n61, 30, 32, 44, 108, 114n7, 121n15, 124, 132, 136, 139, 142–43, 145–46, 150, 152, 156, 161, 163, 167–68, 185, 196
Kun Khan (Ughuz’s son)
79
Leah (Jacob’s wife)
156, 158
Levant
45, 156, 182, 206
Lot (prophet)
54
Lut see Lot
Luza (Adam’s girl)
132
Mahmud (Timurid scribe)
26
Mahmud of Ghazna, Sultan
102–3, 112
Mahmud Shah (Indian ruler)
15
al-Majasti
27
Majmaʿ al-tawarikh
content
50–52
illustrations
78–79, 99–101
importance
47–48
lives of the prophets in
54–55, 57
sources
49–50, 54
surviving manuscripts
50–52
Malikat Agha (Shahrukh’s wife)
13, 22
Mamluks
14
Mansur ibn Nuh (Samanid ruler)
53
Manuchihr (king of the Pishdadiyan dynasty)
78
Manz, Beatrice Forbes
8, 11n22
Martinovitch, Nicholas
90, 93, 95, 106–7
Mary (mother of Jesus)
55, 195–96
Maryam see Mary
Masalik al-mamalik
49
Mashhad
19, 21–23, 45
Masʿud ibn ʿAbd-Allah (Timurid scribe)
26
Masʿudi, ʿAli ibn Husayn
49
Matlaʿ al-saʿdayn
15
Mawlana ʿAbd-Allah Tabbakh (Timurid scribe)
26
Mawlana Khalil (Timurid painter)
24–25, 42
Mawlana Maʿruf (Timurid scribe)
25, 33, 35, 42
Mazandaran
8, 10, 38, 222
Mazdak
79
Mecca
114n7, 203, 215
Medina
101, 118, 215, 221
Melville, Charles
50n34
Milstein, Rachel
120, 172, 199
Ming China
14, 20
Miʿrajnama
30, 32, 43–44, 134, 156
Miranshah (Timurid prince)
6–9
Mirkhwand (Safavid historian)
48
mistara
63
Moses (prophet)
55–57, 78, 100, 110–14, 121, 139, 166–89
Mubarak Shah (Indian ruler)
15
Mubariz al-Din Muhammad Muzaffar
17n62
muezzin
137, 221
Mughals
222
Muhammad (the Prophet)
3, 5–6, 18–19, 39n47, 41n56, 43n66, 50, 66, 72, 75, 79, 101, 112, 114, 119n12, 120–22, 129, 136, 164, 171, 175, 203–4, 206–16, 220–21
Muhammad ibn Ishaq Sahib Maghazi
55, 210
Muhammad ibn Mahmud (Saljuq ruler)
103
Muhammad ibn Mahmud ibn Ahmad Tusi Salmani
185
Muhammad ibn Malikshah (Saljuq ruler)
83n159, 89, 102, 112
Muhammad ibn Murtaza (ruler of Mazandaran)
222
Muhammad ibn Yahya
49
Muhammad ibn Yusuf Thaqafi
206
Muhammad Juki (Shahrukh’s son)
19
Muhammad Sultan (Timurid prince)
7
Muʿin al-Din Natanzi (Timurid historian)
29
Muʿizz al-ansab
11, 31
Muʿizz li-Din Allah
103
mujaddid
1, 18
al-Muʿjam fi athar muluk-i ʿajam
50
Mujmal-i Fasihi
46
al-Mukhtasar fi tarikh akhbar al-bashar
28
Mulla Lutf-Allah Shirazi
27
Multan
15, 102
Munajjim Bashi (Ottoman historian)
18
Muntakhab al-tawarikh-i Muʿini
29
Muntasir (Samanid emir)
79
Muruj al-dhahab wa maʿadin al-jawahir
49, 56
Mustafa see Muhammad
Mustaʿsim (ʿAbbasid caliph)
96
Muzaffarids
17n62, 49, 94
Nahj al-Faradis
44
Namrud see Nimrod
Nasayih-i Shahrukhi
18, 20, 31
Nasir (ʿAbbasiad Caliph)
87
Nasir al-Din Tusi
46, 80n151
naskh script
29, 35, 37, 63, 70, 91
Nasr-Allah Munshi
37
Nasr ibn al-Hasan Firuzan
102, 112
nastaʿliq script
32, 37, 39, 41, 64
Nawzar (king of the Pishdadiyan dynasty)
78
Nimrod
55, 145–48, 150
Nishaburi, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Mansur ibn Khalaf
53
Nizam al-Din Shami (Timurid historian)
7, 11, 29, 34, 48–51
Nizam al-tawarikh
50
Nizami Ganjavi (poet)
26, 27, 30, 39–41, 89, 108–9
Noah (prophet)
54, 57, 78, 100, 124, 134–41, 185, 195–97, 220
Nuh ibn Mansur
102
Nuzhat al-qulub
49
Osman II (Ottoman ruler)
39
Ottomans
4, 14, 39, 74
Padishah-i Islam
8, 12, 218
Parthian empire
198
Peacock, Andrew
53
Pharaoh
100, 166–72, 174
Pir Ahmad Baghshimali (painter)
35
Pir ʿAli Taz (Timurid vizier)
7
Piran
78
Pir Muhammad (Timurid prince)
7, 10–11
Pishdadiyan
75
Qabil see Cain
Qandahar
9
Qara Quyunlu
9
Qara Yusuf (ruler of the Qara Quyunlu dynasty)
9–10, 17, 25
Qarun see Korah
Qasim-i Anvar (Sufi poet)
20, 23
Qatada ibn Diʿama
55, 134
Qawam al-Din Shirazi (Timurid architect)
22, 24
Qazan (Chaghatayid Khan)
6
Qazi Bayzavi
50
Qazvin
9
Qipchaq steppe
9, 19, 45
Qisas al-anbiyaʾ
4, 49, 52–54, 57, 137, 145, 190
Queen of Sheba see Bilqis
Quhistan
19
Qumi, Qadi Ahmad
21, 25
Qurʾan
5, 7n6, 17, 19, 21, 34, 45, 49, 52–57, 59, 102, 113, 134, 138, 151, 157, 174, 182, 210, 218
Quraysh
107n, 203
Qurqurt
79
Rabʿ-i Rashidi
2, 4, 35, 58, 62–68, 74, 81, 83–84, 87, 89, 109–10, 113, 131, 142, 164, 171, 193, 206, 218–19, 221
Rachel (Jacob’s wife)
156, 158
Rahima (Job’s wife)
164
Rashid al-Din
1–2, 11–12
Rashid al-Din Watwat
85n163, 103
Raushan, Muhammad
50
Ray
8, 10
Rehoboam (Solomon’s son)
55
Revan Köşkü
51, 63n92
Richard, Francis
42
Rijʿim see Rehoboam
Robinson, Basil William
35, 40
Rukana ibn ʿAbd Yazid
101
Rum
45, 50, 78
Rustam
17, 78, 100
Saʿdi (poet)
21, 108, 163
Safavids
4, 38, 55, 64, 68–69, 75
Saint George
55
Saint Peter
79
Salghurids
58, 65, 69, 77, 81, 84, 88n172
Salih (prophet)
38n36, 54, 100, 112, 142–45
Saljuqnama
50
Saljuqs, history of
51, 58, 68, 77, 81, 84–88, 96–97
Samarqand
6–8, 14, 20–21, 43
Samson
55
Samudri Raja (Indian ruler)
15
Samuel (prophet)
55
Sanjar ibn Malikshah (Saljuq ruler)
39, 103, 112
Sarbadarids
49
Sari
9
Sasanians, history of
96–98
Saul
55, 193n65
Sava
9
Sayf al-Dawla
102
Sayf al-Vahidi (Timurid poet and painter)
42
Sayf ibn Muhammad Harawi
48
seal
4, 13, 26–33, 39, 41–42, 57, 63, 65, 75, 83, 89–90, 94
Seleucid empire
198
Seth (prophet)
54, 132, 134
Seven Sleepers
55, 198
Shad Mulk
8n11
Shah ʿAbbas I (Safavid ruler)
38, 39n42
Shahnama
27, 50, 94, 222
Shah Niʿmat-Allah Vali (Sufi poet)
21, 23
Shahr-i Sabz
21
Shahrukh
artists of the kitabkhana of
25–26
art patronage
22–23
books in the kitabkhana of
27–29
books produced for
30–32
chronicles presented to
29
life
7, 16–20
rise to power
8–10
shamsa
17n61, 28–33, 38, 41, 51n37, 65, 75–76, 89
Shams al-husn
29
Shamshun see Samson
Shani, Raya
137
Shapur ibn Ardashir (Sasanian king)
79, 97–98, 101
Shapur ibn Hurmuz (Sasanian king)
79
Sharaf al-Din Qazwini
50
shariʿa
12–13, 17–18, 20, 24, 47, 199
Shaykh Safi al-Din
39
Shem (son of Noah)
100, 114n7, 134, 195–98
Shihab al-Din Ghuri
79
Shiraz
6, 14, 20–21, 25, 29, 33, 35, 38, 40, 40n49, 108, 123, 136, 139, 148, 185
Shirvan
9
Shiʿya see Isaiah
Shuʿab-i panjgana
11
Shuʿayb see Jethro
Simjur
102
Sims, Eleanor
27n7, 33, 41–42
Sistan
10
Sitta by Farid al-Din ʿAttar
31
Siyar al-nabi
49, 54
Siyawash
78, 100
Solomon (prophet)
55, 78, 124, 130, 190–95
Soucek, Priscilla
29, 94
Stanley, Tim
33
Subtelny, Maria Eva
8, 43
Sultaniya
9
Sultan Muhammad (son of Baysunghur)
9, 20
Sultan Uvays (Timurid ruler)
9
sura
17, 157, 174
Suwar al-aqalim
49
Tabaqat-i nasiri
50
Tabari, Muhammad ibn Jarir (historian)
33–34, 49, 53–54, 56–58, 182, 226
Tabbagh, Emile
90
Tabriz
2, 6, 9, 16–17, 25, 40, 80
Taft
21
Tahmuras (king of the Pishdadiyan dynasty)
38n36, 78, 97
taht al-hanak
114, 136, 152
Taj al-Din Salmani (Timurid historian)
17, 29
Takash (sultan of Khwarazm)
85n163, 103
Talha ibn Abi Talha
129
Talut see Saul
tamgha
20
Tanındı, Zeren
86n165
Tarikh-i guzida
27, 50, 136
Tarikh-i Ibn al-ʿAmid
50
Tarikh-i jahangushay
50
Tarikh-i mubarak-i Ghazani
12, 26, 31
Tarikh-i Shahrukhi
48
Tarikh-i Tabari
34, 49, 53–54, 56, 58, 182
Tarikh-i wasit
29
Tarikh-i Wassaf
50
Tarikh-i yamini
50
Tarikhnama-yi Herat
48
Tauer, Felix
48
Tazkirat al-awliyaʾ
28, 30, 43–44
Tazkirat al-shuʿara
18, 24
Thaʿlabi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
53
Thamud, People of
142
Three Magi
207
thulth script
70, 75, 91, 161
Timur (founder of the Timurid dynasty)
6–13, 20, 45–48, 50–51, 160, 218, 221–22
Timurids
6–15, 21–25
Topkapı Sarayı Library
2–3, 27, 30–32, 43, 45, 50, 57, 63n92, 64, 145, 152, 190n61
Transoxiana
6, 8, 10, 48
Tughay-Timur
49
Tughrul I (Saljuq ruler)
103
Tughrul II (Saljuq ruler)
68, 103, 112
Tuman Khan
79
Turkistan
10
Ughuz Khan
77, 79, 88, 103
Ughuz Turks
2, 12, 16, 58, 65n98, 69, 75, 77, 81, 84, 87–88, 96–97, 114
Uighur script
43–44
ʿUj
55, 57, 78, 100–111, 136, 139, 182–89
Uljaytu (Ilkhanid ruler)
1, 11, 34, 48
ulu al-ʿazm
122
Ulugh Beg (Timurid prince)
8, 13–14, 20–21, 43
ʿUmar Shaykh (Timurid prince)
6–7, 9, 11, 13, 22
Umayya
215, 220–21
Umayyads
75
ʿUtbi, Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbar
50
Uzbeks
9
Wahb ibn Munabbih
52
Watson, Parish
90
Yahya see John
Yaʿqub see Jacob
yarghu
13, 20
yasa
12, 13n33
Yazdgird (Sasanian king)
95, 97
Yazdi, Sharaf al-Din ʿAli (Timurid historian)
18
Yıldız Palace
39, 65
Yung-lo (Chinese emperor)
14, 19
Yunus see Jonah
Yushaʿ see Joshua
Yusuf see Joseph
Yusuf Andagani (Timurid singer)
24
Zabulistan
10
Zafarnama by Mustawfi
48
Zafarnama by Shami
7, 11, 29, 34, 48–51
Zahhak
37
Zahiri mausoleum
21
Zahiri Nishaburi
50
Zakariyya see Zechariah
Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini
183
Zakhira-yi khwarazmshahi
28
Zamzam
101, 112, 124, 203–205
Zanjan
46
Zayd ibn Haritha
214–15, 217, 220
Zechariah (priest)
55, 195
Zij-i khaqani
31
Zoroaster
100
Zubdat al-tawarikh-i Baysunghuri
47–49, 51
Zulaykha (Potiphar’s wife)
55, 130, 160–61, 163