268 INDEX
Alfonso XI of Castile, 87
Alfonso IV of Portugal, 87
Al-Hudeybiyah, Truce of, 10, 13
Ali, General Ahmed Ismail, 184
Ali, Pasha of Darma, 76–77, 148–49
Ali Pasha of Yannina, 76
Alix, daughter of Bohemund II, 42
Allenby, General E., 130
Almansur, 84, 88
Almohad dynasty, 85–86
al-Nasir, Caliph, 93, 106
Alp Arslan, 37, 49, 92, 106
Alptigin, 53, 61
Al-Qaeda, 245–47, 253
Al SaÛud, Abd al-Aziz ibnÛAbd ar-
Rahman Al Faysal (Ibn SaÛud), 75
Al-Semah, capture of, 82
Amalric, King of Jerusalem, 45, 238
Ambissa, 82
Amr ibn al Aasi, 26, 30–32, 33, 208
Anangpal, 54
Anatolia, 95, 98, 121
Andronicus III, Byzantine Emperor,
93–94
Anglo-Sudanese War, 166–67
Antioch, siege of, 39–40
anti-Semitism in the Islamic world,
228–29
Antranik, Russian general, 128
“Apostasy, The,” 16
Aqraba, Battle of, 17
Arab army, formation of, 23
Arab Conquests, 255–57
Arabi Pasha, 158–59
Arab-Israeli wars, 172–73, 205
Arab Legion, 174–75, 176–77
Arab Liberation Army, 175–76
Armenian Diaspora, 136–37
Armenians, massacres of, 135–36,
231–32
Assal Uttar, Battle of, 186
assassination, military use of, 27
Assassins: cooperation with Crusaders,
236–38; end of, 65; founding of,
92–93, 235; legacy of, 253;
recruitment of, 240–41; regicide by,
41; slaughter of, 237
Aurangzeb, Sultan, 59, 62, 225–26
Ayash, Yahya, 245
Ayoubid Empire, 64
Ayyub, 42, 43.See alsoSaladin
Azdemir al Haj, 66
Azun Ali, 75Babri Masjid, destruction of, 225
Babur, 57–58
Babylon, Egypt, 31–32
badal(blood feud), 194
Badr, Battle of: fighting in, 27, 178,
210–11, 243; Muhammad’s leadership
in, 13–14; and Muslim warfare, 6–7
Baghdad, capture of, 64, 68, 105
Bahira, 1
Baibars, Sultan, 239
Bairakdar Pasha of Widdin, 111
Bajazet, Prince, 96
Bakr, Ali and Abu, 4
Baldwin, King (Crusader), 237
Balfour Agreement, 173
Balkans: redrawing boundaries in,
127–28; religious intolerance in, 113
Banovich, Yuk, 96
Banu-Qurayzah tribe, 9–10
Barbarigo, Admiral, 149
Barbarossa, Frederick, 46
Barbarossa (sea captain), 145–46, 151
Basij (youth brigades), 189–91, 192,
241–42
Basilica of St. Martin in Tours, 82
Baybars, Sultan, 65–66, 79
Bayezit, Sultan, 93–94, 96, 97–98,
101–2, 107
Bayezit II, 101
Bazan, Don Alvaro de, 149
Bedouins, conversion of, 81
Belen, Battle of, 120
Belgrade, Battle of, 100
Beni Bekr, 18