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A History of the Muslim World to 1405

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by Vernon O Egger


  Armenians, 9, 37, 89–90, 160, 173, 191, 234, 278

  al-Ash‘ari, 136–137, 218

  ‘ashura’ (Ashura), 143, 156

  “Assassins.” See Nizaris.

  Asturias, 43, 99

  ‘Ayn Jalut, Battle of, 197, 269

  Ayyubids, 180–181

  al-Azhar mosque and school, 158

  al-‘Aziz, 156

  Badr, Battle of 26, 29

  Badr al-Jamali, 159–161, 178

  Baghdad, 72, 77, 86–92, 109, 111, 134, 143–144, 150–151, 176, 196, 202, 206, 218, 220, 246, 265, 285

  Balkh, 212

  Banu Marin. See Marinids.

  baqa’, 125, 127

  baraka, 310

  Barcelona, 168, 184, 186

  Barquq, 297–298

  al-Basasiri, 150, 158–159

  Basra, 37, 49, 65, 73, 109, 123, 134, 200, 241, 243

  baths, 242–243

  batin, 78, 217

  Batu, 195, 197, 261–263, 279

  Baybars, 181, 197, 271–272

  Bayezit, 281–282, 285

  Bayt al-Hikma, 129, 131, 133, 199

  bedouin, 17–18, 36, 49–50, 144, 164–165, 234, 247, 250, 298

  Bektashiya, 315–316

  Berbers, 41–42, 56, 58–59, 167–168, 182, 298;

  Kutama Berbers, 95, 98, 155, 159;

  Sanhaja Berbers, 166, 183–184;

  Masmuda Berbers, 184–185;

  Zanata Berbers, 98, 185;

  Marinids, 186–187

  Berke, 197, 263, 271

  bid‘a, 292

  al-Biruni, 200

  Buddhism, 43–44, 48, 110, 220, 265, 268

  Bukhara, 11, 43, 92, 106, 108, 145, 148, 194, 201, 240, 268, 315

  al-Bukhari, 117

  Bursa, 280

  Buyid sultanate, 93; 142–144, 148, 150, 201, 214, 218

  Byzantine Empire, 4–11, 15, 19, 22, 27, 37, 47–48, 52–54, 89, 101, 105–106, 110–111, 115, 121–122, 144, 151–153, 158, 173–175, 233–234, 237, 263, 271, 280

  Caesarea, 37

  Cairo, 155, 159, 161, 164, 180, 195, 272, 282, 301

  caliphate, beginnings, 34, 45–47;

  evolution of, 252–254

  camel, 17–18, 105

  Camel, Battle of the, 65

  Carmathians, 94–95, 155, 159, 217

  Carthage, 41–42

  Chaghatay khanate, 261, 265, 267–269, 275, 283

  Chaghri, 148, 150

  Chalcedon, Council of, 9

  Charlemagne, 100

  Chinggis Khan, 194–195, 261, 275

  Christianity, 8–9, 12, 23, 28, 30, 124, 126, 133

  Christians, under the Byzantines, 8–9, 37–38, 41;

  under the Sasanians, 13, 48;

  in the Arabian Peninsula, 19, 22;

  in Medina, 29;

  during the conquest of Syria, 47;

  under the Umayyads of Damascus, 47–49, 53–54, 56;

  under the Umayyads of Cordoba, 103;

  under the Fatimids, 156;

  in Sicily, 163;

  under the Saljuqs, 173, 234, 236;

  under the Crusaders, 175–176;

  under the Mamlukes, 181, 270;

  under the Almoravids, 184;

  under the Qipchaq khanate, 263–264;

  under the Il-khanate, 265

  Cid, El, 232

  Cilicia, 234, 278

  Circassians, 271, 273, 282, 297

  Comnenus, Alexius, 163, 173–174

  Constantinople, 5, 7–8, 15, 37, 39, 41–42, 153, 174, 271, 280–281, 283, 301

  conversion, 50, 248–251

  Cordoba, 100, 102, 167, 187

  Crete, 41, 144

  Crusader states, 175–177, 196

  Crusades, 172–174, 180–181, 231;

  First, 174–175, 278;

  Second, 178;

  Third, 180;

  Fourth, 181, 191, 271, 278

  Ctesiphon, 12, 14–15, 37, 128

  Cyprus, 41

  Damascus, 10, 17, 37, 39, 45, 66, 98, 100, 104–105, 116, 132, 178–179, 195, 212, 272, 285–286, 293, 297–298

  Dar al-Hikma, 158, 161

  Dawlatabad, 275

  Daybul, 44, 110

  Delhi, 195, 268, 273–276, 284

  Delhi Sultanate, 273–276

  dervish, 313

  devshirme, 281

  dhikr, 125, 206, 315

  dhimmis, 48, 188, 248–251. See also Christians and Jews.

  Ditch, Battle of the, 26–27, 29

  Druze, 157–158, 306

  Edessa, 175, 178

  Edirne, 280

  education, 219–223

  Esfahan, 93, 150–151, 154, 201, 246

  fana’, 125, 127

  al-Farabi, 132, 144, 202

  Fatima, 64, 66, 83

  Fatimids, 94–98, 150, 154–165, 178–180, 215–217, 231, 239

  fatwa, 305

  Ferdowsi, 146–147, 240

  Fertile Crescent, 4, 36, 144

  Fez, 97–98, 102, 155, 165, 186–187, 245, 297

  fiqh, 302–305

  Firuz Shah Tughluq, 275

  Five Pillars, 80–83

  Fustat, 38–39, 49, 64, 155, 164

  futuwwa, 244

  Gabriel, 22–23

  gazis, 152, 173, 233–236, 278–281

  Genoa, 176, 231, 272

  Ghadir Khumm, 67, 143, 156

  Ghassanids, 10, 15, 20, 37

  ghaza. See gazis.

  al-Ghazali, 202–206, 254

  Ghazan, 265, 294

  Ghazna, 11, 146, 149, 200

  Ghaznavids, 146–149, 241

  ghulat, 73, 306

  Ghurids, 273

  gnosticism, 209, 211–212

  God, 20, 23–25, 27, 29, 31, 81, 126, 134–136, 211–212, 218, 299–301, 304, 307, 315

  Golden Horde, 197, 261–265, 268–269, 271, 284

  Granada, 167, 187, 204, 283, 297, 301

  Great Berber Revolt (740), 59, 65, 72, 86–87, 96, 100, 155, 165

  Greater Concealment (Greater Occultation), 77, 214–215

  Hadith, 23, 80, 116–122, 131–132, 183, 208, 211, 218, 222 , 239, 246, 294, 303–304, 308, 312

  Hafez, 299–301

  al-Hafiz, 156, 216

  hajj, 82

  al-Hajjaj, 44, 50, 57

  al-Hakim, 156–158, 249, 306

  al-Hallaj, 126–127, 307

  Hamadan, 150, 190, 201, 241, 246, 283

  Hamdanids, 144

  Hanafi madhhab, 119–121, 304

  Hanbali madhhab, 120–121, 136, 294, 303

  Harran, 293

  Harun al-Rashid, 77, 88, 93, 134

  Hasan al-‘Askari, 77, 92, 143

  Hasan al-Basri, 70, 124

  Hasan ibn ‘Ali, 67, 70

  Hasan-i Sabbah, 160–162, 215

  Hasday ibn Shaprut, 103

  Hattin, Battle of, 180

  Heraclius, 15, 37

  Herat, 43, 194, 246, 267, 283, 287

  Hidden Imam, 77, 80, 143, 214, 219, 308

  hijra, 25–26, 187

  Hilali invasion, 164–165, 250

  Hilla, 215

  Hinduism, 44, 48, 146, 275–276, 284

  Hira, 14, 19–20, 22, 37, 241

  Hisham, 58–59, 72

  Hormuz, 276

  hujja, 78, 161

  Hulagu, 195–197, 261, 264, 295

  Hunayn ibn Ishaq, 129

  Husayn ibn ‘Ali, 68–69, 70–71, 74–75, 143, 219

  Ibadi Kharijism, 97, 106, 156, 306–307

  Ibn al-‘Arabi, 212, 294

  Ibn Bajja, 202

  Ibn Battuta, 268, 290, 301–302

  Ibn al-Hanafiya, 70–71

  Ibn Hanbal, Ahmad, 117, 120, 134–136, 218

  Ibn al-Haytham, 200

  Ibn Hisham, 88

  Ibn Ishaq, 88

  Ibn Khaldun, 286, 297–299

  Ibn Munqidh, Usama, 177

  Ibn Rushd, 202–204, 225

  Ibn al-Shatir, 295–298

  Ibn Sina, 201–202, 204, 225, 292

/>   Ibn Tashfin, 166, 168–169, 183

  Ibn Taymiya, 204, 293–294, 304, 312

  Ibn Tufayl, 202

  Ibn Tulun, Ahmad, 92, 253

  Ibn Tumart, 184–185, 186

  Ibn Yasin, ‘Abdullah, 166, 183

  Ibn al-Zubayr, ‘Abdullah, 70

  Ibrahim (Abraham), 21, 23, 30

  Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, 72

  idhan, 81

  Idris ibn ‘Abdullah, 97

  Idris II, 97

  ijaza, 222

  ijtihad, 303–305

  Il-khanate, 197, 261, 263–269, 271, 279, 299, 313, 315

  Illuminationism, 211–212

  Iltutmish, 274–275

  imam/Imam, 75, 321

  Imami Shi‘ites, 76–78. See also Twelver Shi‘ites.

  Innocent III, 186

  iqta‘, 143, 247

  islam 23, 81

  Isma‘il (Ishmael, son of Abraham), 21, 83

  Isma‘il ibn Ja‘far, 76, 95–96, 155

  Isma‘ilis, 76, 78–80, 94–96, 110, 150, 154–162, 188, 192–193, 195, 201, 215–18

  Jacobites. See Syrian Orthodox Church.

  Ja‘far al-Sadiq, 75–76, 119–120

  al-Jahiz, 88

  Janissary corps, 281

  Jawhar al-Rumi, 155, 163, 239

  Jerba, 163

  Jerusalem, 15, 37, 47, 175, 179–180

  Jesus, 8–9, 17, 23–24, 29, 70, 186, 211, 215

  Jews, under the Sasanians 13, 37;

  in the Arabian Peninsula, 19, 26;

  in Medina, 29;

  under the Byzantines, 37;

  under the Visigoths, 42;

  under the Umayyads of Damascus, 42–43, 47–49, 53, 56;

  during the conquest of Syria, 47;

  under the Umayyads of Cordoba, 103;

  in Malabar, 110;

  under the Fatimids, 156;

  in Sicily, 163;

  under the Zirids of Granada, 103, 167;

  under the Saljuqs, 173;

  under the Crusaders, 175–176;

  under the Almoravids, 184;

  under the Il-khanate, 265;

  under the Mamlukes, 270

  jihad, 35, 233–236

  Judaism, 12–14, 23, 28, 30, 126, 133

  al-Junayd, 127, 205, 208

  Jundishapur, 14–15, 128–129

  Justinian, 8, 10, 15

  Ka‘ba, 20–21, 27, 81, 83, 95, 239

  kalam, 133–137, 203–204, 218–219

  Karbala, 68–69, 143, 219

  Kebek, 268

  Khadija, 22–23, 25, 51

  khanaqa, 206, 220

  Kharijism, 65, 80, 83, 95–98, 120, 182, 249, 253, 306

  Khazars, 15

  khirqa, 309

  Khusrow I, 12, 15

  Khwarazm-Shahs, 191–192, 194, 273

  al-Khwarizmi, 129, 225

  al-Kindi, 131–132

  Konya, 152, 176, 191, 195, 212, 279

  Kose Dagh, Battle of, 195, 279, 315

  Kufa, 37, 49, 57, 65–66, 68, 70–72, 123, 241, 243

  Kufic script, 14, 19

  kuttab, 219

  Lahore, 149, 195, 273–275

  Lakhmids, 14–15, 19–20

  Las Navas de Tolosa, Battle of, 186–187

  Lesser Concealment, (Lesser Occultation), 77, 79, 92, 214

  Lisbon, 185, 187

  madrasa, 220–223, 225

  mahdi, 70, 77, 95–96, 185–186, 215, 314

  Mahdiya, 96, 163, 164

  Mahmud of Ghazna, 146, 148, 200–201, 238, 273

  maktab, 219

  Malabar, 110

  malamatiya, 312

  Malatya, 233

  Malik ibn Anas, 119, 135

  Maliki madhhab, 119–121, 156, 166, 183, 186, 297

  Malik-Shah, 153–154, 160–161, 201

  Mamlukes, 181, 197, 263, 265, 269–273, 282–283, 285, 293, 295, 297

  mamluks, 90, 238–239, 263, 271;

  in Abbasid caliphate, 90–91;

  in Samanid regime, 145–146;

  in Buyid army, 150;

  in Saljuq army, 149, 154;

  in Fatimid army, 159;

  in Ayyubid army, 180–181;

  become independent rulers in Egypt, 181, 196–197;

  in Mamluke army, 269–270, 282

  al-Ma’mun, 77, 88–89, 117, 128, 135, 218

  Manichaeism, 43, 134–135, 300

  al-Mansur, 86, 128, 233

  Manzikert, Battle of, 153, 234, 277

  maqamat, 125

  Maragha, 265, 267, 295

  Marinids, 186–187, 297

  Marrakesh, 166, 185–187

  Mashhad, 219

  Mas‘ud of Ghazna, 148–149

  mathematics, 129, 200–201, 291–293

  al-Mawardi, 253

  Mawlid al-Nabi, 156

  Mazandaran, 11

  Mecca, 20–31, 82, 155, 159, 212, 307

  medicine, 132, 201, 292

  Medina, 17, 19, 25–29, 33, 45–46, 51, 66, 68, 73–74, 155, 159, 219

  Merv (Mary), 14, 39, 43, 71, 77, 89, 148–149, 191, 194, 201, 251

  Mevlevi order, 213

  mihrab, 81–82

  mi‘raj, 211

  Moghulistan, 268–269

  Mongke, 261

  Mongols, 194–197, 257–269

  Monophysitism, 9–10, 14–15, 19, 30, 37–38, 48

  monsoons, 110

  mosque, 51, 242;

  masjid, 81, 219, 323;

  jami‘, 219–220, 322

  Mosul, 104, 144, 174, 176, 178–179

  Mozarabs, 103

  mu’adhdhin (muezzin), 81

  Mu‘awiya, 39, 42, 45, 65–66, 68, 87

  Mudejars, 188, 323

  Muhammad (the Prophet), 4, 22–31, 33–36, 39, 45–46, 49, 51–52, 67, 81–83, 118, 123, 132, 207, 211

  Muhammad I (sultan of the Great Saljuqs), 154, 176, 190–192

  Muhammad al-Baqir, 74–76

  Muhammad al-Darazi, 157

  Muhammad ibn ‘Ali (Abbasid leader), 71–72

  Muhammad ibn Isma‘il, 76, 78, 94

  Muhammad ibn Qasim, 44

  Muhammad ibn Tughluq, 274–276, 301

  Muhammad Khwarazm-Shah, 191–192, 194

  Muhammad al-Mahdi. See Muhammad al-Muntazar.

  Muhammad al-Muntazar, 77. See also Hidden Imam.

  muhtasib, 53

  al-Mu‘izz, 155

  Mukhtar, 70

  Multan, 44, 110

  Muqaddima, 298

  Murat I, 281

  Murcia, 185, 187, 212

  murshid. See shaykh.

  Musa ibn Nusayr, 42

  Musa al-Kazim, 76–77

  Muscat, 110

  muslim, 81

  al-Musta‘li, 161, 217

  Musta‘lis, 161, 216

  al-Mustansir, 158–161, 164

  al-Mu‘tasim, 89–90

  al-Mutawakkil, 91, 250

  Mu‘tazilism, 117–118, 134–136, 218

  muwallads, 102, 183–184, 323

  Myriokephalon, Battle of, 193

  Nabateans, 17

  Nahavand, 38, 49, 55

  Najaf, 219

  Najran, 19

  Naqshbandiya, 315

  al-Nasir, 190–192, 207, 244, 254

  Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, 267

  al-Nasir Muhammad, 271–273, 301

  Navarre, 168

  Neoplatonism, 130–132, 202–204, 209, 211–212, 217–218

  Nestorians, 9, 13–14, 31, 37, 43, 48, 110, 128, 249–250, 265

  New Saray, 264, 268

  Nicaea, 153, 174, 191, 271, 278, 280

  Nicopolis, Battle of, 281

  Nishapur, 39, 148–149, 194, 201–202, 205, 265

  Nizam al-Mulk, 149, 151, 153, 160–161, 202, 220

  Nizar, 161

  Nizaris, 160–162, 188, 192–193, 195, 217

  noria, 104

  Normans, 162–165, 173–174, 185

  Nusayris, 306–307, 315

  Ogedai, 195, 261

  Oghuz, 145, 148, 191

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sp; Orhan, 280, 301

  Orthodox Church, 9

  Osman, 280

  Ottoman Sultanate, 277–282, 285, 313

  Palaeologus, Michael, 271, 280

  Palermo, 107

  Palmyra, 10, 22

  Pamplona, 100

  “party kings,” 167–169

  People of the Book, 29

  Persian language, 14, 53, 191, 237, 248;

  poetry and prose, 92, 146–147, 213, 227, 240, 251, 276, 279, 299–301

  Petra, 17, 21

  philosophy, 130–137, 201–204, 209–214, 222, 225–227, 291, 293–294, 298

  pir. See shaykh.

  Pisa, 176, 231

  plague, 8, 37, 159, 273, 282–283, 297

  Plotinus, 130

  Poitier, Battle of. See Tours, Battle of.

  Polo, Marco, 258, 265, 268, 302

  Prester John, 257, 261

  Punjab, 44, 110, 273, 275

  qadi, 115, 122

  Qadiriya order, 207

  Qadisiya, Battle of, 37

  al-Qa’im, 253

  qanat, 11, 104, 264

  Qandahar, 11

  Qara-khanids, 148, 153, 191

  Qara-khitai, 191, 194

  Qarluqs, 145–146, 148

  Qayrawan, 42, 58–59, 79, 96–98, 106, 164–165

  Qazvin, 201

  qibla, 81–82

  Qilij Arslan, 174

  Qipchaq khanate. See Golden Horde.

  Qipchaqs, 145, 180, 271, 273

  Qubilai, 261

  Qum, 161, 218

  Qur’an, 19, 23–26, 29, 31, 35–36, 45, 48, 51, 63, 78, 82, 121–123, 134–136, 183, 185, 202–203, 208, 211, 218, 220, 225, 229, 239–240, 246, 294, 300, 303, 308, 312

  Quraysh, 21, 25, 27, 63

  Qutayba ibn Muslim, 43

  al-Qutb, 211, 314

  Qutlumish, 151–153

  Qutuz, 196

  Rabi‘a, 124

  Ramadan, 82

  Rashid al-Din al-Sinan, 192

  Rayy, 39, 93, 108, 143, 146, 150, 190, 201, 204, 241

  al-Razi, Abu Bakr (Rhazes), 132, 201, 225

  al-Razi, Fakhr al-Din, 204

  Reconquista, 172, 182, 185–188, 223

  ribat, 165, 206

  ridda wars, 35, 49

  al-Rumi, Jalal al-Din, 212–213, 279

  Rustamid dynasty, 96–98

  Safavids, 316

  al-Saffah, 72, 86

  Saffarids, 92, 240, 253

  saint, 126, 310

  Saladin, 179–180, 217

  Salamiya, 79, 95

  salat, 81, 243

  Saljuqs, invasion of, 148–153;

  Great Saljuqs, 154, 161, 173, 176, 190–191, 241, 247;

  Saljuqs of Rum, 153, 173–174, 176, 191, 195, 212, 234, 241, 279

  Samanids, 92, 145–146, 148, 201, 238, 240

  Samarqand, 11, 43, 108–109, 148, 192, 194, 201, 268, 284–285, 287

  Samarra, 90–92, 111, 143, 250

  Sanjar, 154, 190–191, 201

  Santiago de Compostela, 168, 312

 

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