INDEXRamadan, 448-50, 460, 465n
Ramhurmuz, 265
Ramin,133
Ramitin, 271
Raqqa, 130, 135
R'as 'Ayn, 131,379
rasiitlq, 133, 144, 158
Rashi,394
Rashid,212
Rashn, 286, 310n
Rashnenduk, 172
Rashnoi,310
Rashnu, 172n
rat, 282
ra{l, 104
Rav, 327, 419
Rava, 316, 389
rawiidif, 242, 256, 534
riiwin,515
Rawwad ibn Abi Bakra, 63n
Rahayna bint al-Hudhayl ibn Hubayra,
227
Rayta bint Ziyad, 270
Rayy, 142, 194,348,420
reinforcement, 33,97,263,264,429,
432,458,466,476,512-14,515,
520,525; cultural, 8-9
religion, and kingship, 29-30
religious community(ies), 19, 109, 124,
167,306,313,332,400,431,506,
518-20, 522, 523, 524; criteria, 277-
79; Islamic, 505; Magian, 296-97,
305; Monophysite, 380; Nestorian,
381-83
resh galutha, 316
resh nehara, 112
Revardashir,362
review, military, 59-61, 63-64
Ribab, Banu, 243, 244
Ribera, Julian, 8
Rib'iyya ibn 'Amr ibn Khalid, 236n
ridiifa, 220, 534
Ridda Wars, 248
r#iib, 100, 102
riyiisa, 267, 485, 487, 534
rizq, 62, 534
Romans, 167, 181, 268, 303, 304, 327
Rosenthal, E., 8
rosh golah, 316
Rosh Hashanah, 323
rostiik, 534
royal court, 182; Sasanian, 70-73
royal guard, 92-93
royal property, 536
ru'asii', 258, 487
Rudab, 224n, 225
Rudhmistan, 149-51,252
Ruha, 136. See also Edessa
Ruhayma, 153
Rumaqan, 144
Rumiyya, 139, 267, 269
Ruqba Meda'in, 157
Ruqiyya bint 'Ali, 227
Rusafa, 225, 333, 374
Rustam, 38, 187, 192; ghuliim, 212n
rustiiq, 129, 133, 152, 197, 533-35
rutba, 103
ru'us, 257
Ruzbi, son of Marzuq, 54, 151, 385
Ruzbih, son of Buzurjmihr, 75, 77, 192,
199, 203, 225
Ruzbihan, 204sii', 100, lOIn, 103, 104, 533, 534
Sabad, as-, 387n
Sabat, 144, 176, 189, 193, 210, 226,
473
Sabbath, 216, 319, 323, 326, 328
Sabhrisho' I, 90, 92, 188n, 349, 350,
360n, 362, 376, 402; Synod of, 356,
426
Sabhrisho', bishop, 111
Sabhrisho' of Lashom, 337-39, 341,
370, 395. See also Sabhrisho' I
Sabhrisho' Mar, 345, 370; monastery
of, 231, 342, 398
~abian(s), 397-98,409,447
siibiqa, 256
Saboraim, 323
Sabur ar-Razi, 148
Sa'd, Banu, 207, 218, 227-28, 247,
249,469,474
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqa~, 33, 38, 55, 75-
77, 79n, 140, 142, 155, 157, 179,
189, 193, 197, 199,210,237,239,
243,246,259,269,344,378,432,
433
Sa'd ibn 'Arnr al-Ansari, 224n
Sa'd ibn I:Iudhayfa ibn al-Yaman, 142,
440,489
Sa'd ibn Mas'iid, ath-Thaqafi, 147,
244,489