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by Charles Allen

developments, and

  Afghanistan

  refugees, shura in Kandahar

  xenophobia, support for

  Bin Laden

  Patna, as centre for Wahhabis

  Patna - cont

  Sadiqpore district

  ‘Patna-ites’

  chota godown

  during

  Sepoy Mutiny

  Wahhabi

  leadership arrested

  Wahhabi leaders released

  and Wahhabi trials

  Patriotic Association

  Pelly, Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis

  Pennell, Dr Theodore

  Pentagon

  Persia

  Persian

  Persian Gulf

  Persians

  Peshawar

  modern city, under

  Sikh rule, during Sepoy Mutiny

  Christian

  cemetery, and war against

  Pathans, head of Syed

  Ahmad displayed, base for

  British action

  Edwardes College established

  authorities’ response to

  Frontier developments

  and volunteer movement

  Maktab al-Khidamat

  (Services Offices)

  madrassahs, Bait al-Ansar

  (House of Ansar), Bin

  Laden arrives, Al-Zawahri

  arrives, Al-Zarqawi arrives

  Peshawar Gazetteer

  Philby, Harry St John

  conversion to Islam

  Philippines

  Pindari freebooters

  Pioneer

  Pir Ali Khan

  Pir Baba

  pirs

  Plassey, battle of

  Pollock, Frederick

  Powindah, Mullah

  Prem Singh, Sepoy

  print medium

  Punjab, under

  Sikh rule, Settled

  Areas, Tribal Areas, North

  West Frontier

  appearance of

  mujahedeen, becomes British

  province, during Sepoy

  Mutiny, Hijrat

  Movement in, madrassahs in

  Punjab Frontier Force

  Punjtar

  Puritanism

  Qais bin Rashid

  Qasoori Sahib

  Queen’s Own Corps of Guides

  Cavalry and Infantry

  Qum

  Quran

  instruction in madrasssahs

  teachers of, translated into

  Persian, literal interpretation of

  and sharia, Wahhabite

  interpretation of

  requirement for zakat

  contradictions within

  nonviolent verses, ‘Verse of the

  Sword’, and British rule in

  India, motto from, Kalma

  and influence of Western

  knowledge, command to

  kill unbelievers, corruption by

  Persians, and innovation

  Qutb, Muhammad

  Qutb, Sayyid

  Rae Bareli

  Raffles, Stamford

  Rajasthan

  Rajputs

  Rangoon

  Ranigunge

  Ranjit Singh, Maharaja

  Rashid, Ahmed

  Rattray, Captain Thomas

  Rattray, Lieutenant Harry

  Ravenshaw, T. E.

  Rawalpindi

  Red Sea

  Reily, J. H.

  Ripon, Lord

  Risala Jihad

  Riyadh

  Britons in Wahhabi

  stronghold

  Philby establishes political agency

  Institute of Religious

  Studies, King al-Saud

  University

  Roberts, Major (later Major-General)

  Frederick ‘Bobs’

  Rohilkhand

  Roman Catholicism

  Rose, Sir Hugh

  Routledge, James

  Rowcroft, George

  Rowlatt Acts

  Russia

  Russians, Soviet involvement

  in Afghanistan

  Ruthven, Malise

  Sadat, President

  Sadullah, Mullah

  (’the Mad

  Fakir’)

  Safed Koh range

  Said Akbar, Akhundzada

  Saiyyeds

  Salafi

  Samaratut Tarbiyat (Results of the

  Training)

  Samiul Haq

  Samuells, Edward

  Sang-i-Hisar madrassah

  Sarfaraz Ali, Maulvi

  Saud, House of

  Saud-Wahhabi dynasty

  Saudi Arabia, falls

  under Saud-Wahhabi rule

  Wahhabism institutionalised

  established as nation-state

  wealth

  involvement in Afghanistan

  funds madrassahs, Grand

  Mufti of, disenchantment with

  House of Saud, recognises

  Taliban government

  Sayed Shari Mohamed

  Sayyaf, Abdul Rab Rasoul

  Sayyed Akbar Shah

  Sayyed clan

  allied with

  Wahhabis

  Sayyed Firoze Shah

  Sayyed Mubarik Shah

  Sayyed Umar Shah

  Sayyid Abulala Mawdudi

  Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (’the

  Afghan’)

  Sayyid Muhammad

  Sayyid Nazir Husain Muhaddith

  Maulana

  Scindia, Daulat Rao

  Second World War

  Sepoy Mutiny

  Wahhabis

  and, effect

  on British perceptions

  Seringaputam

  Shabkadar

  Shafi, Muhammad

  Shahabad

  shahid

  Shakespear, William

  Shamlee, mosque

  Shankargarh

  sharia

  Wahhabi

  immutability of, itjihad, in

  Saudi Arabia, in Pakistan

  Taliban

  Shariat-i-Mohammadi (Movement for

  the Enforcement of Islamic Law)

  Shariatullah, Hajji

  Sharif Husayn ibn Ali

  Sheikh al-Islam

  Sher Ali, Amir

  Shere Ali

  Shia theology, belief in

  mahdi, and title of imam

  mam-Mahdi story, prophecies

  Shias, Mughals

  hostility towards

  and cult of

  martyrdom, and desecration of

  Prophet’s tomb, response to

  Wahhabi trials, Hazaras

  madrassahs, ayatollahs

  Shinwaris

  Shuja, Amir Shah

  Siddiq Hasan Khan, Nawab

  Sikander, Shah

  Sikhs, war

  against Pathans

  Wahhabi hostility towards

  imperialism, and Sepoy Mutiny

  barracked in Jamma

  Masjid, at Ambeyla

  maharajas

  at Malakand, at Dargai, salute

  George V

  Silk Gorge

  Silk Letter Conspiracy Case

  Sindh

  Singesar

  Sipahi-e-Sahaba (Soldiers of the

  Companions)

  Sirat-ul-Mustaqim

  Sirhindi, Sheikh Ahmad

  Sittana

  Wahhabi build-up and

  expulsion

  burra godown

  as base for jihad

  during Sepoy Mutiny

  Six Day War (1967)

  socialism

  Somalia

  South Africa

  Soviet Union, see Russians Special Police Department

  Spin Ghar mountains

  St Bartholomew’s Eve Massacre

  Standard Oil company

  Sudan

  Sudi Badal

  Suez, Canal

  Sufis, saints

  Sufism, Naqsh
bandi, mysticism, prophecies

  Suleiman the Magnificent

  Sultan, Prince

  Sumatra

  Sunni theology, Hanafi

  school

  Hanbali school

  taqlid, Shafi school

  revival, al-Sunna, belief

  in mahdi, revivalist

  prophecies, fatwas on British

  rule, increasing

  conservatism, Alawite

  sect

  Sunnis, Wahhabi

  hostility towards, shocked

  by desecration of Prophet’s tomb

  Bohra sect, mullahs

  denounce Wahhabis

  fundamentalist, response

  to Wahhabi trials, denounce

  Deobandis, promotion of

  Wahhabism to, and Islamic

  revival,

  Supreme Committee for Islamic

  Propagation

  Surat

  Swat, tribes

  Fanatics established in

  uprising, map

  Fanatics expelled

  presence of Ahl-i-Hadith, see

  also Ghaffur, Abdul, Akhund of Swat Swat, Padshah of

  Swat, Wali of

  Swat River

  Swatis

  uprising

  Syad Ahmad Khan

  Syed Ahmad, Shah

  summary of his

  theology and theocracy

  declaration of jihad

  call to arms, chosen

  as imam and amir, declares

  himself Padshah, death

  disappearance and cult of

  Hidden Imam

  and golden age of

  Islam, continuing influence

  model for invasion of

  India, reasons for success

  Syed Emdad Ali Khan, Moulvee

  Syed Muhammad Hussain

  Syria

  Syrians

  Tablighi Jamiat (Preaching Party)

  Tacitus

  Tajiks

  Talib Ali

  Taliban

  alliance with Bin Laden

  overthrown, interpretation of

  Islam

  taliban-ul-ulm

  Taqwin-ud-Deen (Rightness of

  Faith)

  Tarbela Dam

  Tariqa-i-Muhammadia (Path of

  Muhammad)

  Taro Jaba

  Tashkent

  Tawarikh Kaisar Rum

  Tawhid wal Jihad (Monotheism and

  Holy War)

  Tayler, William

  attempts to

  clear his name

  collection of curios

  Taylor, Reynell

  Thana Bawan

  Thanesar

  Thar desert

  Theosophical Society

  Tilwai

  Tipu sultan

  Tirah

  Tirah Field Force

  Tirhut

  Titu Mir (Mir Nasir Ali)

  Tod, Colonel James

  Tonk, Nawab

  of

  Tora Bora

  Trans-Jordan

  Trotter, Mr Justice

  Turangzai

  Turkestan

  Turkey

  Turks

  ulema,

  Wahhabi

  guiding

  authority of, reformist

  defied by Abdur Rahman

  summoned to Kabul, in Saudi

  Arabia, in Afghanistan

  pathan

  ul-Hasan, Maulana Mahmood

  ul-Huq, Maulvi Waiz

  umma

  United States of America

  invasion of Iraq

  madrassahs, support

  for House of Saud

  Urdu

  USS Cole

  Utmanzais

  Uyainah

  Uyayna

  Uzbeks

  Vale of Peshawar

  map

  van der Meulen, Colonel

  Vaughan, Major

  Victoria and Albert Museum

  Vienna, siege of

  Wahba, Sheikh Hafiz

  Wahhabis: the name, ghazu

  ulema

  cult of martyrdom, warfare

  ruthlessness, impose

  identity on Arabia, plunder

  holy places, desecration of

  the Prophet’s tomb, alleged

  British involvement with

  pirates, defeated by

  Egyptians, courage

  subservience to pirs

  ‘Delhi-ites’

  ‘Patna-ites’

  dress, recruits

  and Sepoy Mutiny

  British

  move against, arrest and

  trials of leaders

  responsibility for

  assassinations, British

  perceptions of, womenfolk

  commitments to missionary

  work, see also Hindustani

  Fanatics

  Wahhabism: origins in Arabia

  theological nature

  bastions in India, characterised

  by violence, as cult of

  infallibility, evolves political

  and racial dimensions, in Java

  movement in India under

  Syed Ahmad, view of

  apostasy, fragmentation and

  restructuring in India

  denounced in India

  extent in India, Ahl-i-Hadith

  links with, term avoided by

  British, Deobandi links with

  stronghold in Riyadh

  revival under Ibn Saud

  institutionalised in Saudi Arabia

  opposition to modern

  developments, organisations

  and institutions

  influence on Afghanistan

  Wake, Herewald Crauford

  Waliullah, Shah

  continuance of

  his teachings

  Ward, Mr

  Wardak

  Warden, Lieutenant Francis

  Waris Ali

  Waziris

  Waziristan

  Western civilisation

  Wilayat Ali, Maulvi

  and development of

  Indian Wahhabism

  death

  visits Andaman islands

  descendants

  Wilde, Colonel Alfred

  Woodcock, Mr

  World Supreme Council for Mosques

  Wright, Assistant Adjutant-General

  Xinjiang

  Yahya Ali, arrest

  and trial, death

  Yakub Khan

  Yemen

  Yusufzai, Rahimullah

  Yusufzais

  religious

  subservience, and Wahhabis

  under Syed Ahmad

  lashkars, plain

  Zaidulla Khan

  Zain-ul-Abdin, Maulvi

  Zia-ul Haq, General Muhammad

  Zureef, Mullik

 

 

 


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