Pádzahr-i-ḥaywání (“animal anti-
dote”), 59
Pahlawí, 209 n., 487
Palestine, 45, 46 n., 428
Pan-Islamism, 24, 303
Pantheism (Waḥdatu'l-Wujúd), 382,
383
Pan-Turanian Movement, 15
Parí-Khán Khánum, 81 n., 101, 102,
172
Paris, 323-5 (Farhang's poem on —),
444, 450, 459, 490; Treaty of —,
154
Paríshán, Kitáb-i- — (by Qá'ání,
A.D. 1836), 326-8, 335
Parry, 10
Párs (newspaper), 489
Pársí-nigárí (use of pure Persian by
Yaghmá), 338; cf. 423
Parwána (earlier pen-name of the
Adibu'l-Mamálik, q.v.) 347
Parwarish (newspaper, A.D. 1900), 469
Passion Plays, 29, 186-194. See
Muḥarram, Pelly, Sir Lewis —,
and Ta'ziya
Pelenk and Felenk, 119
Pelly, Sir Lewis —, 29, 186, 187 n.,
188 n., 190 n., 193 n.
Peloponnesus, 72
Pentateuch (Tawrát), 204, 214, 388
“Perfection,” “the Blessed —”
(Jamál-i-Mubárak, title of Bahá'u-
'lláh, q.v.), 214 n.
Persecution, 69, 77, 92, 94-5, 120,
147, 227. See Bábís, Shí'a, Ṣúfís,
Sunnís
Persepolis, 133
Persian belief in Divine Right of
Kings, 18; — Gulf, 107, 154, 451;
— language, 13; — Revolution (by
E. G. Browne), 371
Peshawur, 136
Peter the Great, 131
Petrograd, 490
Pharaoh (Fir'awn, pl. Fará'ina), 14,
336
Phillipe, Don — of Persia, 6
Phillott, Col. D. C. —, 468
Philosophy, 422-437
Pír (spiritual director), 19, 20; —
-ẓáda (family name), 42
Plato (Afláṭún), 201, 202, 212
Platts (ed. of Gulistán), 269 n.
Pliny, 441
Point (Nuqṭa, q.v.), 150
Poland, 5
Polytheism (Shirk), 385-6
Pope, the —, 5, 7
Portugal, Portuguese, 4, 10, 92, 107
Pote Collection of MSS. (Eton and
King's Colleges), 35, 229 n.
Predestination (Jabr), 15, 384-5. See
also Fatalism
Press and Poetry of Modern Persia by
E. G. Browne, 155 n., 162 n., 223,
302, 303 n., 340, 343, 345, 346,
371, 441, 447, 454 n., 457 n.,
467 n., 468 n., 469, 478 n., 482 n.
Priests, Christian —, 4-6, 9-10. See
also Missionaries
Printing introduced into Persia, 155,
468
Prophetic Office, 387-8
Prose, Varieties of —, 412
Psalms (Zubúr, Mazámír), 388
Psychical Research, 40
Ptolemy, 201, 212
Purchas's Pilgrims, 105
Pushtô (Afghán) language, 122

Qá'án, 14 n. See also Kháqán
Qá'ání (poet, d. A.D. 1853), 26, 163,
168, 177-181, 225, 227, 265, 299,
307 n., 326-335, 336, 337, 339, 344
Qábíl (Cain), 207, 217
Qábús-náma (xi), 412
Qádisiyya, Battle of — (vii), 126-7
Qahqaha, Castle of —, 89, 96, 98
Qá'im-i-Ál-i-Muḥammad (the Twelfth
Imám or Imám Mahdí, q.v.), 150,
394, 419; — ('Abbásid Caliph,
A.D. 1031-1075), 54 n.; — maqám
(Mírzá 'Ísá of Faráhán, d. A.D.
1831, and his son Mírzá Abu'l-
Qásim, put to death in A.D. 1835),
147 and note, 152, 303, 311-316,
346, 347, 484 n.
Qájárs, 10, 26, 29, 52 n., 115, 121,
122, 128, 132, 139, 140-158, 168,
224, 298, 299, 300, 375, 455,
487-8. See also under the names
of the individual kings of this
dynasty
Qamṣar (near Káshán), 477, 481
Qanbar-i-Rawḍa-khwán, Sayyid —
(satirized by Yaghmá), 339
Qandahár, 55, 112, 118 n., 123-5, 136
-Qánún (newspaper), 468-9
Qánúní (“the Law-giver,” title of
Sulṭán Sulaymán I), 81
Qáqázán (? Qázán), 475, 479
Qará-bagh, 49, 346
Qaramán (Caramania), 48
Qâren, 199, 209 and note
Qárún (Corah, amongst the Muslims
proverbial for his wealth, like
Croesus in Europe), 199, 207,
209, 217
Qárs, 104
Qarshí, Massacre of Sunnís at — in
A.D. 1512, 63, 83, 94, 227
Qárúyál (or Quryál, or Qúriyán), 47
Qásim (son of the Prophet Muḥam-
mad, died in infancy), 391; —
Beg ibn Jahángír Beg ibn 'Alí
Beg (ruler of Diyár Bakr about
A.D. 1500), 55; Mawláná — (poet,
circâ A.D. 1554), 169-170
Abu'l-Qásim Ḥamza (son of the
seventh Imám Músà Káẓim, and
ancestor of the Ṣafawís), 33 n.;
— Findariskí (xvi-xvii), 250, 257-
8, 408, 435; Mírzá — Qá'im-
maqám (q.v.), 147, 311-316,
484 n.; — (poet of Shíráz, xix),
225 n.
Qásimí (poet to Sháh Isma'íl, xvi),
83, 229 n.
Qásimu'l-Anwár (poet, xiv-xv), 44
Qásimu'l-Arzáq (“the Assigner of
Daily Bread,” 'Alí so called), 385
Qásiṭín (“Wrong-doers,” Mu'áwiya
and the Umayyads so called), 392
Qaṣr-i-Zar (in Fárs), 59
Qaṣṣábiyya (by the poet Yaghmá), 339
Qaṭrán (poet, xi), 299
Qawá'idu'l-Islám (Shí'a theological
work by -Ḥillí), 54 and note
Qáyin (in Khurásán), 427
Qayṣar-i-Rúm, 80 n.
Qayṣariyya (Caesarea), 71
Qazwín, 4, 10 n., 26, 85, 90, 97, 98,
100, 104, 105, 109, 110, 129,
130, 131, 135, 170-172 (Ḥayratí's
satire on the people of —), 223,
264, 282 n., 345
-Qazwíní, Zakariyyá b. Muḥammad
b. Maḥmúd (geographer, xiii),
397 n., 448
-Qifṭí (author of the Ta'ríkhu'l-
Ḥukamá, xiii), 447
Qipcháq, Dasht-i- —, 45
Qiṣaṣu'l-'Ulamá (Biographies of Shí'a
doctors, by Muḥammad b. Sulay-
mán of Tanukábun, A.D. 1873),
120, 354-5, 356, 358, 360 n., 361,
368 n., 369 n., 370 n., 372, 373,
376, 377, 378 n., 379 n., 404-9,
416, 426, 427 n., 428, 429, 432,
434, 435, 449
Qishrí (formalist, externalist), 376, 402
Qiwámu'd-Dín Núr-bakshí (A.D. 1519),
231 and note
Qiyás (analogy), 374
Qizil-básh (also called Qizil-burk and
Surkh-sar, “Red-heads”), 12, 13,
14, 48 (why so called), 68-9, 74,
76, 80 n. (Qizil-burk), 93, 102,
104, 106, 236 and note
Qoja Beg Günduzlu (one of the
assassins of Nádir Sháh), 137 n.
Qubád (Sásánian king), 464
Qúchán, 455
Qudsí (poet of Mashhad, d. A.D. 1646),
251, 258
-Quds wa'l-Khalíl (Jerusalem and
Hebron), 46 ad calc.
Quellenkunde der Persischen Medizin
(by Dr A. Fonahn), 439
Querry, M. Amédée —, 377, 378
“Questioning of the Tomb” (Su'ál-i-
Qabr), 396
Quhrúd, 109
“Quintet,” 229. See Khamsa
Qum, 30, 56, 100, 130, 148, 149, 237,
253, 259, 283, 309, 429
-Qur'án, 16, 36, 39, 110, 114, 137,
209 n., 210, 212 n., 214, 215 n.,
217 n., 243, 254 n., 336 n., 361,
374, 381, 382, 388-390, 401, 415,
418, 430, 432
Qúriyán (Qaruyál, or Quryál), 47
Qurratu'l-'Ayn (the Bábí heroine, put
to death in A.D. 1852), 154, 197,
421
Ibn Qutayba, 485 n.
Quṭbu'd-Dín Aḥmad (great-grand-
father of Shaykh Ṣafiyyu'd-Dín),
32 n., 36-7