IndexofProperNames,Places,
WorksandThemes
‘Abdu’llāh,Qiwāmal-Dīn 16,19,20
‘Abbādī,Quṭbal-Dīnal- 45
Abbasids 146,209,253
Abraham 100
AbūBakr,Caliph 94,190
AbūḤanīfa 77
AbūIsḥāqĪnjū 4–5,10,20–23,27,61–62,164
AbūSa‘īdibnAbī’l-Khayr 161,180
ActiveIntellect 202
Adam xi,41,51,79,97–98,102,110,112,
115–118,126,128,132,137,139,
180–182,186,198–199,202,243
affliction 8,42,72,100,113,172
Aflākī 183,195
Afrāsiyāb 63,101
Alba251,252–266,268,273,276,278
AlexandertheGreat 30
‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib 4, 72, 175, 179, 180, 190,
210
Al-NāṣirBi’llāh,Caliph 146
Al-WalīdII,Caliph 254,258,277
AmīrīFīrūzkūhī 15
Amor7,9,28,40,53,54,78,79,81,91,102,160
seealsoeros;‘ishq
Āmulī,Ḥaydar 144,194
Andalusia 80,253,254
angels 51,79,89,114–118,125,127,132,149,
174,181,198,199,201,209,217,218,
223,228,229,237,272,273,275
annihilation 45,54,55,109,113,124,130,
131,138,147,172,201,206,221
Anṣārī,‘Abdu’llāh xxiv,44,73,166,169,175,
180,190,191,194,195
anti-clericalism 159,164,189
antinomianism 93,94,187,196
apophatictheology 160
AraxesRiver 263
Arberry,A.J. 3,55,65,139,280,292
ascetic 4,22,31,32,34,42,49,52,54,95,96,
98,100,107,159–165,167–182,185,189,
190–195,240–244,246
seealsozāhid
ascetics 3,4,10,23,33,34,98,113,147,150,
160,162,172,177,178,181,189,241
seealsozuhhād
Ash‘ariteschool 143
Āshūrī,Dāryūsh 18,119,181,195
‘Aṭṭār,Farīdal-Dīn xxii,6,11–12,22,32,
36–37,42–43,66,68,79–80,95–96,100,
103–104,108,113,119,121,135,159,
165–166,169,189,191–193,208,
295–296,300,302,313–314,317
‘Aṭṭār,Maḥmūd 208
Attributes,divine 87,129,134,184
Avery,Peter 14,137,279,280,292
‘Awārifal-ma‘ārif 145
AwḥadīMarāghī 6
Awn,Peter 120,121
‘Aynal-QuḍātHamadhānī xxi,xxiv,44–46,
70,72,77,103,144,146,148,192,201,
202–203,209,302,307
Azerbayjan 13,263bacchanalia/bacchanaliantendencies xx,
xxiii,xxiv,9,22,24,41,42,85,92,96,
97,99,116,119,174,176,177,186,187,
194
Baghdādī,AbūṬāhiral- 67
Balyānī, Amīn al-Dīn 6, 164, 166, 180, 190,
191
Barrow,Isaac 282
Barry,Michael 213
Bausani,Alessandro 68,210,221
Bayḍāwī,al- 61
Bayqarā,Farīdunb.Ḥusayn 13
beauty 5,6,8,13,29,41–53,69,70,83,84,85,
87,89,92,97,98,102,105,111,112,113,
117,123–136,138,148,152,153,160,
162,165,174,182,189,193,200,202,
203,205,224,256,271,282,283,286,
287,290
Bell,Gertrude 281