Destiny Disrupted

INDEX

Bush war against terrorism, 349,
351-352
Palestinian-Israeli conflict, 321-322,
332
See also specific events; specific groups
Teutonic Knights, 199
Thirty Years' War, 212
Time oflgnorance, 133
Timur-i-lang (Tamerlane), 160,
173-174,179,185,249
Tobacco concession/boycott, 266-267,
268,278,315
Tode Mongke, 157
Toynbee, Arnold, xiii
Treaty of Balta Liman (1838), 286
Treitschke, Heinrich von, 281, 283
Turkey
becoming nation-state, 301, 310
demotion of Islam/clergy, 301-302,
303
secular modernism, 301-304
women's role, 303
See also Atatiirk
Turkish language, 301, 302, 303
Turko-Mongol tribes, 150
Turks
Abbasid age and, 122, 123-124
attacks on Ghaznavid area, 126
Seljuks/Seljuk era, 126-128,
128(fig.), 131, 132, 135, 150,
151
in seventeenth century Islamic world,
195-196

Uhud battle, 26-27, 37, 55, 57

Ulama

becoming member of, 98-99

beginnings, 50, 94-99

science and, 1 04-1 06

social power of, 98, 105

Urn Kulthum, 54

Umayyad Empire

Abbasid revolution, 82, 83, 84,

85(fig.)

Arabization by, 77, 80

beginnings, 65, 72, 73

expansion, 74, 75, 76(fig.), 78, 79

inequalities/social gradients,

80-81

Islamification by, 77-78, 80

Mu'awiya and, 65, 67, 75-76, 85

overview, 72-86, 76(fig.)

Persians and, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,

85(fig.)

See also specific individuals

Umayyad kbalifate, Andalusian,

118-119, 120-121, 121(fig.)

Umayyads

description, 54, 60, 72-73

Othman and, 54, 56-57

slaughter of, 85-86, 118

Umm al-Darda, 114

Umm Hakim, 114

Umma birth/definition, 23

Universal Declaration of Human

Rights (UN), 333

University beginnings, 204-205

Urban (engineer), 175

Urban II, Pope, 137, 138

Urdu language, 239, 258, 259

Usamah ibn Munqidb, 148

Vandals, 80

Vesalius, Andreas, 211

Vikings, 136, 200-201

Volksgeist, 280, 281

Wafd political parry, 268

Wagner, Richard, 281

Wahhabism

beginnings, 252-255

Deobandis, 307, 308, 343, 344

389