INDEX
Abd Allah Hajash, 209
Abd Allahi (the khalifa), 164–66
Abd Allah Ubayy, 210
Abdul Hamid, 134
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 173, 175, 177
Abdullah, Prince (Saudi Arabia), 250
Abercromby, General, 73
Abu Ageila, Battle of, 178
Abu al-Hasan, Emir, 53
Abu Bekr, Caliph: death of, 21, 35;
leadership of, 16–17, 20, 26; rule of,
34, 221
Abu Hafas, 86
Abu Jahl, 6
Abu Qarja, 162
Abu Serh, Abdullah, 142, 151
Abu Siwar, 168
Abu Sufyan, 8
Abu Ubaid ibn Masud, 21–22, 28
Acre, fall of, 67, 110
Adowa, Battle of, 166
Aech War, 154
Afghanistan: and Al-Qaeda, 246–47, 248;
attitude toward Pakistan, 202; and bin
Laden, 249; British in, 55, 155–57;
fighting spirit of, 194–96; fragility of
alliances in, 200–201; Muslim
conquest of, 52; Soviets in, 193–97,
205; U.S. war on, 200, 206
Aga, Achmed, 124
Ahmet I, Sultan, 113, 140
Ahmet III, 117
Ahmet III, Sultan, 140
Ahzab, Battle of, 9
Aibek, Emir, 64
Ain Jaloot, Battle of, 64–65, 78
Ajnadain, Battle of, 27–28
Akbar the Great, 58, 62, 226
Ala ad-Din Muhammad III, Assassin, 239
Al-ÛAqabah, pact of, 3–4
al-Aqsa Mosque, 249, 253 n.3
Alarcos, Battle of, 86
Ala-ud-din-Khilji, 56–57, 61
Al-Babayn, Battle of, 44, 49
Alexandria: English victory at, 73; fall
of, 44–45; Napoleon’s attack on,
70–71
Alexius Comnenus, 37–38, 39
Alfonso VI of Castile, 85, 88
Alfonso VIII of Castile, 86–87