INDEX514,522; Orthodox, 358; Qadishaye,
270; Syriac literature, 35n; Syrian,
454
Christianity,S, 84, 178n, 278, 295, 298,
299,302,305,308,330,369,395,
401,438,443,483,509,517; Arian,
9; Monophysite, 476
Christology, Nestorian, 355-58
Christophorus, 374
Church, Armenian, 374; Christian, 112;
Coptic, 357n; Jacobite, 372, 373, 377,
378; Marcionite, 402: Nestorian, 171,
203, 206, 212, 302, 338, 342, 343,
345, 346, 354, 357, 363, 367, 370,
376, 381,382,383,41~ 426,508,
513,529
circle of power, 28, 183
civil war, second, 212, 352, 383, 439,
- See also fitna
Clovis, 376
coins/coinage, 23, 30, 31, 38-51, 125,
136, 143, 158, 208, 290, 509, 510,
512,513,536; Arab-Islamic, 5~51,
517; Arab-Sasanian, 41, 43-48, 50,
161, 517, 527, 528; Sasanian, 29, 39-
41;527
Commander of the Faithful, 32, 34n, 36,
37,38,45,46, 47, 50, 55, 69, 72, 81,
86,88,268,344,471,473,479,528
communicatio idiomatum, 356
community, Islamic, 254, 471, 502, 530;
Jewish, 367, 368, 508, 528; Magian,
293, 368; Muslim, 32; Nestorian,
354-69,466; Rabbinic, 319, 322,
323, 324, 329, 459; religious, 330
Companions of Mui:lammad, 433-35,
442,449,454,456,494,500,501,
502
Constantine, 298, 376
Constantinople, Council of (533), 373;
Creed of (381), 356
continuity, 3-4, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17, 19,
21, 23, 124, 164, 167, 215, 263, 264,
273,306,429,484,502,516,517,
520,521,525; administrative, 51,
97-8, 125, 136,513; dynamics of,
346-54; evidence for, 16; linear, 458,
502,507-9,515,525; through trans-
mission, 504, 506, 509, 513, 514, 525
conversion(s), 20, 110, 113, 119, 178n,
180,199,224n,230,234,272,297-
300,301-2,305,306,307,308-9,
313,330,342,354,361,362,368,
369, 370, 372, 373n, 374-76, 379,
381,382,395-96,417,420,429,
475,484,494,509,514,516,517,
521,522
convert(s), 106, 110, 184, 205, 278,
310,333,338,347,350,365,385,
431,434,437,438,443,444,447,
450, 453, 458, 466, 483, 484, 496,
503,510,524
Correspondence department, 64-66
courts, rabbinical, 318; religious, 319
Creswell, K., 74
crown land(s)/property, 28, 37, 53, 69-
70, 100, 105-6, 116, 121, 122, 123,
203, 205, 210, 510, 512
Ctesiphon, 23, 49, 128, 138, 143,282,
339, 404; bishop of, 109; Synod of,
334
cubit, 103-4. See also dhirii'
cursus honorum, 335
Cyprian of Beth Magoshe, 302, 398,
420
Cyriacus, 351
Cyril of Alexandria, 358Dab', 153
Dabarbi, 155
Qabba,Banu, 178,218,220,236,247,
249,261,438,440
dablr, 22, 65n
dabrrbadh,22,65n, 85,529
DadhishcY,22
DadhishcY, Rules of, 362, 417; Synod
of, 85, 334, 479
DadhishO', Mar, 360n
DadhishcY Qa!raya, 429
dahiiqln, 21, 69, 105, 108, 113, 115,
117, 118,141,158,171, 172,182n,
187, 188, 189, 190 194n, 195, 199,
200,201,205,206,208,209,210,
212,213,220,221,223,258,273,
280,293,302,312,507,509,510,
517,529. See also dihqiin
Qai:li:lak, a<;i-, ibn Qays, 135
dahqiine, 21, 204
dahr,393, 429, 481n, 483, 529
Dahrls,291
Dai~anite(s), 403-4, 408, 425
Qaja'am, Banu, 224