Index
Abaqa, ilkhan 68, 71–73, 247
1281 invasion of Syria 74
armstice with Qubilai 72
death 74
deposition of George of Trebizond
134n328
raid on damascus 74
Abbasid caliphate 14, 15, 27, 56
Ablastin 73n60
Abu ’l-Fidā’, Muslim historian and
geographer 57n95, 71n46, 121, 195n211,
265, 266
Abu ’l-Majd al-Sallāmī, Muslim merchant
191n197
Abū Sa‛īd, ilkhan 11n31, 49n51, 130, 135,
137, 189–191
death 199
peace with sultan al-Malik al-nāṣir
Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn 192n200
Abū Tammām, Arab poet 24n73
Acamar, Tartar killed in Tana 203
Acre 73n59, 104n186, 150
1291 Mamluk conquest 34
expulsion of Genoese 94, 151, 155
fall of 85, 130, 160
Genoese attack 79n85
Mamluk attack 71
Adam, Guillaume, archbishop of
Sultaniye 86n119, 127, 177n34
Aden 83, 84, 86, 120
Adrianople 260
battle of 275n542
Aegean Sea 244
Afghanistan 23
Africa 16, 88, 127
Aḥmad Tegüder, ilkhan 11
shift in Ilkhanid policy 75, 77
embassy to Cairo 75
persecution of Christians 75, 78n84
Ahtopol 93
Akkerman (= Cetatea Albă, Bilhorod)
215n282, 238n377, 254n444, 266, 267
Aksaray 249n425
Alakka, wife of noghai 260
Alan, Alans 110, 142, 144n11, 224, 254, 268,
275
exodus to Byzantium 269
lands 259
mercenaries 240n387, 257, 263
merchant 89, 162
al-Asadī, Mamaluk chronicler 268n511
al-Askarī / al-Ashkarī see Michael VIII
Palaiologos
al-‛Aynī, Islamic scholar 167n94, 173n115,
176n126, 177n134, 178n138, 188n185,
189n189, 190n193, 191n198, 192n200,
200n239, 250n426, 263n488
al-Bīra (= Birecik) 71n48, 75n71
al-Birzalī, Arab chronicler 268n511
al-dhahabī, Arab chronicler 66n27,
244n405
al-dimishqī, Arab chronicler 121
Aleppo 23, 57n96, 69n41, 71, 122
Alexandria 16, 21, 80n91, 82, 90, 93,
144n10, 154, 170, 178, 244
staple right 16
spice trade 79n88
see also Mamluk sultanate
Alexios II Komnenos, emperor of
Trebizond 125, 129, 132, 133, 164, 165
Algirdas, grand duke of Lithuania 221
Al-Ḥajj Tarkhan see Astrakhan
Alimoş, Toma, hero in a Romanian
ballad 279n559
al-Malik al-Ashraf, Chobanid ruler in
Iran 138, 139, 200, 218n295
al-Malik al-Ashraf Qānṣūh al Ġawrī,
Mamluk sultan 17
al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn, Mamluk
sultan 74–76
al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Sayf al-dīn Qutuz,
Mamluk sultan 57n100
al-Malik al-nāṣir Muḥammad ibn
Qalāwūn, Mamluk sultan 169, 170, 172,
176, 189
letter to Hethum II 81n97
marriage to Tulunbeg 187–189
Özbek’s embassies 187, 189–192
peace with Abū Sa‛īd 192n200
al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Baybars, Mamluk sultan
71, 73, 93, 96, 97, 143n9, 241, 246
alliance with Golden Horde 89, 148,
175, 255
agreement with Byzantium 243