- Index
Ali al-Hadi, Tenth Imam, 68
Ali al-Rida, Eighth Imam, 63
Ali Zayn al-Abidin, Fourth Imam,
56
Aligharh college, 150
Allah, 3,4, 8, 11, 23, 75
AUami, Abdulfazl, 127
American Muslim Mission, 177
American Muslims, 177
Anatolia, Byzantine resistance in, 29,
30
Crusaders in, 93
Seljuks advance into, 95; 101
conquered by Timur, 107; 108
under Ottomans, 109,115, 116,
129
Andalus, al-, 105
Angora, 110
Aquinas, Thomas, 83
Aristotle, 72
Armenia, 32
Asharism, 64
Ashura, 159, 174
Astrakhan, 116
Atariirk (Mustafa Kemal), 148, 158
Aurengzebe, Emperor, 128, 162
Averroes, see Ibn Rushd
Avicenna, see Ibn Sina
Ayodhya, 178
Ayyubid dynasty, 93, 97
Azerbaijan, 97, 107, 109, 117
Azhar, al-, college, 83, 175, 177, 185
Babur, Emperor, 124
Babur, Mosque of, 178
Badr, Battle of, 19, 29
Baghdad, 54, 55, 58, 63, 72
Seljuks seize power in, 81
in decline, 85; 86, 96
falls to Mongols, 97
sacked by Timur, 107
Baibars, Sultan Rukn ad-Din, 97
Banna, Hasan al-, 155-56, 171
Basrah, 31, 34, 46, 48, 55, 62, 72
Bedouin, 23, 26
Bekhtashi dervishes, 109
Bengal, 108, 147
Benjedid, President, 182
Berbers, 105, 132
Bhutto, Prime Minister Zulfaqir Ali,
163
Bihzad, 120
Bistami, Abu Yazid al-, 75
BJP (Bharatiya Janarta Party), 178
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 147
British:
in Bengal, 147
in Iran, 148
in Aden, 148
in Egypt, 148
in Sudan, 148
Buddhism, x, 76, 97,108, 125
Bukhara, 97
Bukhari, al-, 60
Bulgar, 109
Bursa, 109
Byzantine Empire, 27, 30, 32
decline, 95-96, 109
seized by Ottomans, 110; 141Cairo, 69, 83
Camel, Battle of the, 34,44
Caucasus, 32, 117
Chaldiran, Battle of, 118
Chelebi, Abu al-Sund Khola, 133
China, 107
Christians in Muslim empire, 10, 30,
125, 132,134; 164
Constantinople, see also Istanbul 42,
110,130
Constitutional Revolution (Iran,
1906), 149, 161
conversion to Islam:
discouraged, 30, 41