Index • 545Kazakhstan, 418
Kemal, Mustafa (Ataturk), 179,213-216,
224,227
compared with Reza Shah Pahlavi,
238,239
Kemalist movement, 227,228, 234—235
Kenya, 276,410
Kerr, Malcolm, 393
Khadija,30,31
death of, 34
Khalid, 40,58
Khalid ibn al-Walid, 54
Kharaj, 76,94, 182
Kharijites, 62,64,69,72,80,90
Khartum, 334, 339,410
Khatami, Muhammad, 417
Khazars, 95
Khedive, 182
Khomeini, Ruhollah (Ayatollah), 367,372,
374,375, 376, 377, 378, 393, 395, 396
Khurasan, 64, 77,80,81,95,97,102,
136,181
Khurasan highlands, 20
Khuzistan, 201
Khwarizm,74,102,181
al-Khwarizmi, 6
Kibbutz, 276,277,309
Kidnappings, 269
Kin da tribe, 25
al-Kindi, 119
King-Crane Commission, 217,245,279
Kipchak Turkic tribes, 132
Kissinger, Henry, 347,351,352, 353,354,
356,361,362,377
Kitchener, Lord, 211
Kizilbash, 152,153,154
Knesset, 308
Konya, 97
Koprulu family (veziers), 159,160
Kosovo, 141
Kubla Khan. See Qubilai Khan
Kuchuk-Kainarji, Treaty of, 162
Kufa,58,60,61,62
Kufans, 66,67,73
Kufiyahs, 119
Kufiyas, 230,306
Kurdistan, 132, 228,229, 383,405
Kurds, 10,87,195,326, 340,377,393,403,
405,423,432,438,445,447
Kuwait, 9,223,294,312, 355, 382, 392,
399-406,409,412,426,429,431,
432,436
basic statistics for, 530t
Iraq invasion of, 400-404Lakhmids, 25
Lampson, Miles, 261,263
Land grants. See Iqta' system
Land reform, 266, 302,318,423
Landowners, 77,94,152,158,176,189,
194,199,255,261,262,306,359
Language(s)
Arabic, 5-6, 24,45, 72,82
Aramaic, 58, 73, 82
Coptic, 58, 73
governmental, 58
Greek, 58, 73, 82
Hebrew, 272,273,276
Italian, 187
Kurdish, 236
Ladino, 187
Persian, 21,58, 73,81,82,199,236,
238,239
Sanskrit, 81
Semitic, 23,270
Slavic, 162,198
sun language theory of, 232
Syriac, 58
Turkish, 198,208,231,232,233
al-Lat, 26,33
Lausanne Treaty, 228,229,295
Law. See Legal system; Shari'a
Lawrence of Arabia, 214
Lawrence, T. E., 213,214
Lazar (Serbian king), 141
League of Nations, 217,218,229,239,260,
279,303
Lebanon, 18,56,93,101,153,166,185,
206,207,212,213, 218,264,283,
291-292,295-303,318-322,326,
340-342,356-361,368-369,379,
383,388-394