Index • 537Cairo University, 260,412,417,430
Calendars, 35,47, 230, 238
Caliphate, 62. See also High Caliphate
absolutist, 73
destruction of, 102-104
legal system and, 112
Rashidun, 62, 89
Calligraphy, 122
Camel, Battle of, 39, 61
Camels, 21,23, 24,26, 37, 55, 118
domestication of, 8,23
Camp David Accords, 329, 358, 361, 363,
364,367, 384,385, 387,389, 391,
393,414,415,416,439,440
Campus Watch, 444
Canaanites, 269
Capitalism, 232, 320
Capitulations, 165,188, 228,229,254,
262, 372
Caradon, Lord, 334
Caravans, 24,26, 36, 81,100,101
Carter Doctrine, 381
Carter, Jimmy, 358, 361, 362, 364, 365, 367,
368,374, 376,377, 378, 381, 383,
384,394
Catherine the Great, 162
Catholicism, 27,98,162,166,198,206, 369
Caucasus Mountains, 97,102,132,180,
181,210,225,236
Central Asia, 7,8,19,20, 84, 85,94,95,97,
101,125, 126,129,130,132,135,
137,163,236
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO).
See Baghdad Pact
Chalabi, Ahmad, 436
Chalcedon Council, 19
Chaldiran, Battle of, 144,153
Checkmate, 5
Chemistry, 121
Cheney, Dick, 434,435
Chess, 5
Chevron Oil Company, 245
China, 4, 7,19,21, 55, 71, 78,95,101,102,
134,137,138,165,169, 197, 200,
306,427
civilization of, 8-9
Chovevei Tzion, 274
Christian Arab nationalists, 205-206
Christianity/Christians. See also
Catholicism; Copts; Evangelical
Christianity; Greek Orthodox;
Maronites; Nestorianism;
Protestantism
beginnings of, 17
Copts, 19, 56,84
Crusades and, 98-101
dissidents/heresies in early, 19-20
Islam and, 35
in Lebanon, 10
persecution of, 93
under Roman Empire, 18
in Rome, 18
trinity in, 19
Chronology, of Middle East history,
449-465
Churchill, Winston, 220,263,
280,334
Cilicia, 144
Ciller, Tansu, 235
Cipolla, Carlo M., 138
Circassians, 132,190,193,205
City-states, 15, 23, 25
Civilization(s)
beginnings of, 15
of China, 8-9
Egyptian, 5
Greek, 5
in history, 4
Islamic, 71,107-113
Clans. See Tribes
Class structure, 115
Cleanliness, 50
Clemenceau, Georges, 217
Climate, 7, 245
Clinton, Bill, 411,413,414,426,432,
433,435,439,440
Clothing, 5,118
Coffee, 6,118
Commentary, 433
Committee of Union and Progress
(CUP), 196,197,208,211.
See also Young Turks