Index. 225Naini, Sheikh Muhammad Husain,
149
Najaf, 149, 173
Nanak, Guru, 125
Nasir, Caliph al-, 96
Nasser, Jamal Abd al-, 158-59, 169,
171, 184
Nation of Islam, 177
National Liberation Front see FLN
Nile, River, 31
Nizamiyyah madrasah, 86, 88
Nizamulmulk, 85, 88
Noah, 17, 69
Ottoman Empire, 109-10, 11 5, 116,
120,130-35,136-37
Oxus River, 32, 63, 85, 96, 97, 11 5,
118
Pahlavi dynasty, 159-61, 174
Pakistan, 149, 162-63, 178
Palestine, 29, 81,93, 97, 149, 184
PLO, 184
Partition of India, 149, 162, 178
Pahtum tribe, 170
Pen, Jean-Marie le, 181
Persian Empire, 27, 30, 34, 55, 83
Plato, 73
Poitiers, Battle of, 50
Portuguese, 11 7
Protocol of the Elders ofZim, 22
Punjab, 124, 128
Qadarites, 47
Qadisiyyah, Battle of, 27
Qajar dynasty, 148, 149
Qanuni, al- see Suleiman I
Qatar, University of, 185-86
Qaynuqah tribe, 20
Qazvin, 87
Qum, 31,117
Quradawi, Yusuf Abdallah al-, 185-86
Quran, xi
as revealed to the Prophet, 4-5,
21
poetic quality, 5; 6
and continuity of faith, 8, 9, 11
no coercion, 10
and the Last Days, 12, 53
and women's rights, 16
and Jews of Medina, 16-17, 20-
22
on war, 22, 30
on society, 29
religious tolerance, 30, 170
Uthman standardizes text, 33
calligraphy, 45
and political debate, 46
iatin meanings, 56, 72, 76
ahl al-hadith, 58
Faylasuf interpretation, 72
Sufi interpretation, 74
as basis for Saudi government,
161
Quraysh tribe, 3,4, 8
oppose the Prophet, 12, 14, 19,
22-23; 49, 186
Qurayzah tribe, 20-22
Qutb, Sayyid, 169-70Rabiah, 74
Rafsanjani, Hashami, 175
Rajputs, 108
rashidun, 23-33,49, 52, 55, 56, 58, 61,
65, 77, 104, 117, 160
Rayy, 117
Red Fort, 178
Red Sea, 11 7
Renan, Ernest, 83
Reza Shah Pahlavi, 159, 172
Rida, al-, Eighth Imam, 159
Rida, Rashid, 153-54, 184
Rum, Sultanate of, 96, 97, 101
Rumi,Jalal al-Din, 101-2, 103