Islam : A Short History

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Index. 221

encouraged by Umar II, 52, 53; 63
Cordova, 83, 105
Crusades, 93-95
influence on Western view of
Islam, 179-80
Ctesiphon, 27, 54
Cyrenaica, 29
Cyprus, 32


Damascus, 31, 34, 37,48, 97, 104,
107
Danube, River, 95
Dar al-Harb, 30
Dar al-Islam, 30, 81, 91, 96, 159, 179
David, 8
Deccan, 124
Delhi, 97, 107, 108
Dervishes, Whirling, 101
Dimad, Mir, 122


Edirne, 109
Egypt, 27, 29, 59
under Ismailis, 69; 97, 105, 106,
132
French in, 147-48
British in, 148, 151
under Muhammad Ali, 150-51;
155,160,183-84
Euphrates, River, 34, 97


Farabi, Abu Nasr al-, 72-73, 83
Fard, Wallace, 177
Fatamid dynasty, 81, 83,93
Faylasufs, 71-73, 76, 83, 84, 90, 103,
104,105
dominant under Moghuls, 116;
120
promoted by Akbar, 125
Falsafah study under Ottomans,
134, 135,149-50
FIS (Islamic Salvation Front, Algeria),
180-83


fitnah:
first, 33, 37,41,42,46
second, 44
FLN (National Liberation Front,
Algeria), 180-83
French:
in Egypt, 147-48,
in Algeria, 148
in Libya, 148
in Morocco, 148
fundamentalism, 164-75
Fustat, 31, 32, 33

Ganges, River, 108
Gaza, 156
Genesis, 17
Genghis Khan, 96, 98
Georgia, 11 7
Ghannouchi, Rashid al-, 185
Ghazzali, Abu Hamid Muhammad
al-, 88-90
GIA (Armed Islamic Group, Algeria),
182-83
Granada, 105
Giilhane decree, 150

Hafsah (wife of the Prophet), 15
Hagar, 17, 23
baj], 11, 22-23, 67, 75, 159
Hanafi madhhab, 65
Hanbali madhhak65, 104
Harran, 55
Harun al-Rashid, Caliph, 54-56, 57,
59,61
Hasan ibn Ali, Second Imam, 36
Hasan al-Ashari, Abu al-, 63-64
Hasan al-Basri, 46-47, 48, 92
Herat, 32
Hidden Imam (Abu al-Qasim
Muhammad), 68, 109, 118,120,
123, 149, 173, 174
Hijaz, 3,43
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