Destiny Disrupted

362 NOTES

CHAPTER 5

1. From Ibn Qutayba's ninth-century history Uyun al-Akhbar, excerpted in Islam:
   From the Prophet Muhammed to the Capture of Constantinople (New York and Oxford:
   Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 273.


2. Nafasul Mahmum (chapter 14), Sheikh Abbas Qummi quoting from thirteenth-
   century historian Sayyid Ibn Tawoos's book Lahoof(Qom, Iran: Ansariyan Publica-
   tions, 2005).


3. G. E. von Grunebaum, Classical Islam (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company,
   1970), p. 70.

CHAPTER 6

1. Wiet, Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate, pp. 12-24.


2. From Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census by Tertius
   Chandler. (Lewiston, New York: St. David's University Press, 1987).

CHAPTER 7

1. My rendering of a poem that appears in Perfome of the Desert: Inspirations ftom
   Sufi Wisdom, edited by A. Harvey and E. Hanut, (Wheaton, Illinois: Quest Books,
   1999).


2. From Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi, "Women Scholars of Hadith," at
   http://www. jannah.orgl sisters/womenhadith.httnl.


3. Maulana Muhammad Ali, The Early Caliphate (1932; Lahore, Pakistan: The Ah-
   madiyya Anjuman Isha'at Islam, 1983), p. 119.


4. Ghazali, "On the Etiquettes of Marriage," The Revival of the Religious Sciences
   book 12 at http:/ /www.ghazali.org/works/marriage.httn.

CHAPTER 8

1. Chaim Potok, History of the jews (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), pp.
   346-347.


2. Mohammed Ali, A Cultural History of Afghanistan, 120-123 (Kabul: Punjab Ed-
   ucational Press, 1964).


3. My cousin Farid Ansary quoted this line from a contemporary of Firdausi's; he
   couldn't recall the poet's name. However, similar (but more extensive) anti-Arab vitu-
   perations can be found at the end ofFirdausi's Shahnama.

CHAPTER 9

1. Philip Daileader discusses the fragmentation process in medieval Europe in lec-
   tures 17-20 of his audio series The Early Middle Ages (Chantilly, Virginia: The Teach-
   ing Company, 2004). See also the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6'h edition, entry for
   "knight."