Index
Abbasids, 90
Abravanel, Don Isaac
(1437–1508), 117–119, 159,
177
Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham
(1240–1290), 110–111, 114,
131
Acosta, Jose ́de (1540–1600),
162–163, 178
Adair, James (1709–1783), 97
Aescoly, Aaron, 129, 220
Afghans and Afghanistan, 6,
73, 90, 204, 213, 219
Africa, 4, 5, 12, 39, 73, 82,
86–87, 92–93, 99–100,
105, 107–108, 115, 126,
129, 142, 163, 166, 189,
204–205, 211–212
East, 119–130, 139, 158
West, 98, 125, 157, 214
Africanus, Leo, 127
Ahijah the Shilonite (Prophet),
8–10
Akkad, 41, 53, 66
Alborz Mountain Range
(Iran), 73
Alexander the Great, 64–65, 69, 89, 94,
101.See also Dhu’l Qarnain
Alexandria, 122, 123
Almohads, 6
Alvand Mountain Chain (Iran), 103
Alvares, Friar Francisco, 126–128
Amazon (River), 77, 139–140
America, 12, 51, 139–146, 155–158,
160–167, 171–174, 178–181, 186–192,
202, 205, 214, 218
as edge of earth, 176–177
and “horizon of possibilities,” 138–140,
142
North, 166–167
South, 3, 5, 136–138
as “Zion” 184–185
American Civil War, 172
American Revolution, 171–172
Amos,32, 50, 53, 71, 76
Amsterdam, 135–137, 174, 176
Andean Mountains, 136, 138–139, 224
Anderson, Andrew, 64–65, 73
Anglo/British-Israelism, 187–198, 219
Anian Straits, 160, 164–166, 179, 201
anthropology, 4, 12, 22, 94, 95, 97, 109,
219–220, 224