Index
Aaron, 69
Abbari, Riza-i, 118
Abbas (uncle of the Prophet), 53
Abbas I, Shah, 118
Abbasid caliphate, 53-57, 58-59, 62,
67, 71, 81, 82, 96, 98, 115
Abd al-Malik, Caliph, 44—45,47, 50
Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad, 135
Abdu, Muhammad, 153
Abdulhamid, Sultan, 150
Abraham, 8,17, 23, 69
Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah, Caliph, 53
Abu Bakr, First Caliph, 4, 15, 25-27, 52
Abu al-Hakam (Abu Jahl), 12
Abu Hanifah, 48-49, 58
Abu Jafar al-Mansur, Caliph, 54, 57
Abu Sufyan, 12, 19, 21, 23, 32,49
Abu Talib, 13
Abu al-Qasim Muhammad see Hid-
den Imam
Adam, 24, 69
Aden, 148
Admonition to the Nation (Naini), 149
Afghani, al- (Jamal al-Din), 151-53
Afghanistan, 32, 163, 170
Africa, North, 29, 30, 32
under Umayyads, 50
under Abbasids, 59
under Ismaili Fatimids, 81, 105
under Ottomans, 115,132,135
Afsanal-Arbaah,Al- (Sadra), 122
ahadith, 49, 59-60, 83
ahld-hadith (Hadith People), 58, 60,
62, 63, 65
ahlal-kitab (People of the Book), 10,
11, 18, 21, 30
Ahmad ibn Hanbal, 62-63
Ahmad Khan, Sayyid, 150
Ain Jalut, Battle of, 97
Aisha (wife of the Prophet), 15, 23, 33
Akbar, Emperor, 124—2 7
Alamut, 87, 97
Albert the Great, 83
Aleppo, 91, 93
Alexius Comnenus I, Emperor, 95
Algeria, 136
French occupation, 148
FIS and FLN in, 180-84
Algiers, 181, 182
Alhambra palace, 105
Ali ibn Abi Talib, 4, 15, 25
as Fourth Caliph, 33-36
in opposition to Muawiyyah, 34,
44,46,47,48
and Shiahi-Ali, 36, 43, 52, 76, 108;
65, 70, 117, 173