Index
'Abbasids, 34-37, 40, 42, 44-46, 50, 58,
75, 95, 196n56
Abdalluh, 'Umar bin, 205n7
'Abd al-Malik, 36, 41
Abdulaziz Habari, 'Amr bin, 44
Ab-e Kausar (Ikram), 175
Abi'lThaqafi, 'Uthman bin, 35
Abu Bakr Ash'ari, 'Ain-al Mulk, 54, 57
Abu'l-Faz'l, 153-154
Achh, Saifuddin Aybek, 2oon22
adab, 57, 95, 132, 2nn3
Adab al-Kabir (Muqaffa), 101
Adab Harb wa'l Shaja'a (Mudabbir), 53
Aden, 28-29, 31
Adule, 30
advice genres, 21, 81, 84-102, 109-uo,
206n22
Agham, 107-109
A'ina-ye Iskandari (Dehlavi), 95
A'in Nameh (Muqaffa), 101
Akbar, Jalaludin, 147-148, 153-155,
181, 184
Akbarnama (Abu'l-Faz'l), 153, 155-156
Akhbar al-Sin wa'l-Hind (anonymous),
32 '7
Akhlaq-i Nasiri (Din Tosi), 96
Alam, Muzaffar, 55, 207n33
'Alawis, 14, 36, 42
Alexander the Great, 26, 29, 68-70, 87,
92-95, 182
Aligarh University, 171-72
alliance-building, 86-92, 181-182,
2IOn22
All India Muslim League, 3
Amarasakti (king), 98
Amin, Shahid, 4
Anarkali, 147-148, 211fn38
Andaman Islands, 2 7
Anglo-Afghan War, 160-162
Ansab al-Ashraf (Baladhuri), 34
Anushirwan, Khusru, 100
Anvar-i Suhaili (Nasru'llah), IOI
Aquil, Raziuddin, 207n34
"Arab Conquest of Sind" (Majumdar),
172, 174
Arabia, 157; India's contacts with, 23-26
Arabian Sea, 26-27
Arabic (language and literature), 8-21,
43-48, 54-70, 92-102, 144, 1-53, 180.
See also translation; specific authors
and works
Arabs in Sind (Sprenger), 168
'Arain community, 179
archaeology, 26-32, 69-77, 202n50
Aristotle, 93-95
Arminius, I
Arnold, T. W., 172
Aror, 13, 40, 65, 120, 131-133. See also
Dahar; Qasim, Muhammad bin
Artaxerxes Mnemon of P,ersia, 29, 93241