W
Wadi Fididjas 142
al-Wahhab, Muhammad ibn 236
Wahhabism 236–7, 256–7
Wales: Baldwin’s campaign 74
al-Walid I, Caliph 34, 35
Wasit, Iraq 32
Waterloo, battle of 167
Welf V, Duke of Bavaria 70
Welf dynasty 174
Wellington, Duke of 167
Western Church 17, 72, 106, 111
White Fathers 260
White Sisters 260
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 244–5, 246, 253
William, Duke of Normandy 77
William, prior of the Holy Sepulchre 106
William II of Sicily 156, 166
William V, marquis of Montferrat 144
William of Nogaret 211
William the Pious, duke of Aquitaine 62
William of Rubruck 189
William of Tyre 106–7, 110, 132
History of Jerusalem 107
William the Conqueror 76
Wilson, Woodrow 251
Wizita, Visigothic King 33
Worms 79
Y
Yadzgard III, King 34
Yaghisyan 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
Yahya of Antioch 58
Yamamah 13
Yarmuk, battle of 15, 16, 19, 20, 36, 253, 262
Yazid I (Umayyad caliph) 29, 30
Yemen 8, 48, 136
Yom Kippur War 252
York 151, 266
Young Turks (previously Committee of Union and Progress) 245–6, 249, 270
Yugoslavia 255
Z
Zab river 40
Zagros mountains 16, 28, 34
Zangi, atabeg of Mosul, master of Aleppo 116–17, 132
Zara 172
Zayd (brother of al-Baq) 42
Zayd ibn Haritha 8–9
Zaydites 42
Zayid ibn Abihi 28, 29
Zaynu l’Abidin, Ali (‘the Prostrator’; Shiite imam) 42
Zionism, Zionists 248, 250, 251–2
see also Jews; Judaism
Zizim 228
Zoroastrianism 15, 34, 228
Zubayr ibn al-Awam 19, 26
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