Ta'abbata Sharr^an (heathen
Arab poet), 191-193
Tabaqatu'l-Kabir (of Ibn
Sa'd), 278
Tabaqatu'sh-Shu'ara (Bio-
graphies of Poets), 278, 345,
358, 447, 449
^*-Tabari (the historian), 10,
14, 110, 114, 121, 138, 152,
158, 169, 175, 183, 233, 258,
270, 284, 285, 290, 307, 314,
315, 316, 317, 318, 321, 323,
327, 328, 329, 336, 343, 360-
361, 386, 428, 429, 455, 477,
478; Persian translation of
—'s History, 11, 110, 356,
369, 455, 477-478; —'s Com-
mentary on the Qur'an, 478
Tabaristan, 8, 10, 103, 200, 207,
314, 330, 334, 347, 348, 359,
371, 392, 446, 453, 466, 469,
470. See also Gilan, Mazan-
daran.
Tabi'un. See Followers
Tableau littéraire du Khor-
assan …, 365
Tabriz, 86, 98, 325
-Tabrizi (commentator of
-Hamasa), 278
Tadhkíratu'l-Awliya (of
'Attar), 362
Tadhkiras (Memoirs) of Per-
sian poets, 449
-Taff, 131
Taghazghaz, 164
Tahirid Dynasty, 6, 12, 278,
341, 346-347, 355, 450, 452,
453
Tahir “Dhu'l Yaminayn”
(founder of Tahirid
Dynasty), 346
Tahir (grandson of 'Amr b.
Layth the Saffarid), 359
Tahir, Baba —, 26. See Baba
Tahir
Abu Tahir -Jannabi, 402, 403.
See -Jannabi
Abu Tahir -Khatuni, 12, 449,
464
Ibn Abi Tahir, 246
Tahmurath (legendary Per-
sian king), 80, 112, 115
Takht-i-Jamshid, 113. See
Persepolis
Takht-i-Sulayman, 113
Talaqan, 244, 397, 428
Talha, 217, 261, 388
-Ta'i ('Abbasid Caliph) 371
Tali (“the Subsequent” in the
Isma'ili system), 414
Tajaribu'l-Umam (of Ibn
Miskawayh), 361
Abu Talib, 193, 214
Ta'lim (“Teaching” in
Isma'ili system), 408
Ta'limi,407. See Carmathians,
Isma'ilis, Sect of the Seven
Tahish (dialect), 27, 86
Talmud, 256
Tamerlane (Timur-i-lang, i.e.,
Lame Timur), 86, 122, 423
Tamil character, 103
Tamim (tribe of —), 221
Tamim b. Mu'izz (Fatimid
poet), 373
Abu Tammam (poet), 265, 278,
330, 336
Tanasukh-i-arwah (Transmi-
gration of Souls), 279, 287,
311, 320, 327, 328. See also
Metempsychosis, Return,
Rij'at, Re-incarnation
Ta'rikh-i-Bayhaqi, 331
Ta'rikh-i-Guzida, 157
Tariqat (“the Path” of the
Sufis), 441
Tartar (Tatar more correctly),
197. See Mongol
Tarun, 266
Tasawwuf. See Sufiism
Tashbih. See Anthropomor-
phism
Tasnifs (Ballads), 17
de Tassy Garcin —, 444
Tauler, 297, 421
Tavernier, 42
Tawhid (Sufi), 439
Ta'wil (Allegorical Interpre-
tation of Isma'ilis), 159, 285,
393, 394, 414
Tawm (Angel), 158
Tawrat. See Pentateuch
Taylasan, 335, 343
Tayy, Tribe of —, 265
Ta'ziyas, 131, 132, 227
Teispes, 92. See Chaishpish
Ten, Number —, 412
Tennyson, Lord Alfred —, 210
Teresh, 20
Texeira, 42
^*-Tha'alibi, 14, 255, 317, 354,
358, 365-366, 368, 374, 445,
450, 470, 474
Thabit, Abu'l-Hasan —,
(grandson of Thabit b.
Qurra), 304
Thabit b. Qurra, 304, 306, 358,
367
Thamud (tribe), 430
Thatagush (Satagydæ), 94
Thawr, Cave of —, 330
Theodore Abucara, 282
Theodosius, Bishop —, 351
Theophanes, 169, 172
Theophilus, 329
Theresa, Santa —, 299, 421
Thevenot, 42
Thibet, 159
Ibn Abi Thiyab, Abu Muham-
mad —, 365
Tholuck, 362, 444
Thomas (Pahlawi numis-
matologist), 151, 152
Thousand and One Nights
(“Arabian Nights”), 254,
277
Thrætaona (Traitana, Feri-
dun), 115
Thucydides, 94
Thumb, 64
Tiglath Pileser, 20
Tigrakhuda, 94
Tigris, 173, 184, 197, 199, 336,
343, 429, 432, 434
Tihran, 19, 26, 35, 115, 131
Timotheus the Persian, 172
Timur-i-lang. See Tamerlane
-Tirmidhi (traditionist), 351
Toledo, 40
Tornberg, 360
Traditions, 12. See Hadith.
Transoxiana, 163, 247, 252,
314, 315, 321, 322, 335, 340,
365, 376, 434
<text in Greek script omitted>, 153
Trinity, how understood by
Sufis, 443
Troyer, 54
Trumpp, 300
Truthfulness of Persians, 167
Tubba's (Kings of -Yaman),
174
Tuj, 128. See also Tur
Tukharistan, 244, 347
Tur (son of Feridun), 115, 116.
See also Tuj
Turanian, 23, 24, 25, 74, 79,
116, 121
Turkey, 227, 437
Turkish guards, slaves, and
vassals, 6, 291, 339, 342, 345,
372, 460
Turkish influence on Islam,
251, 254-255, 263, 292, 294,
318, 322, 342, 351, 364, 368,
375-376, 424, 454
Turkish language, 41, 42, 90,
379; — written in Arme-
nian and Greek character,
8, 9
Turkish peoples, Persian
literature produced by —,
3; antipathy between —
and Persians, 116, 128, 266,
334-335
Turkistan, 434
Tus (town in Khurasan), 123;
— identified with Urva of
the Avesta, 35
Twelve Gospels (Manichæan),
156
Twelve, The Number —, 408,
414
Tychsen, 57, 58, 60, 61, 71
Typal Love, 442
Typography, Oriental —, 41

'Ubayd-i-Zakani. (Persian
satirical poet), 389
Abu 'Ubayda -Jarrah, 297
Abu' 'Ubayda Ma'mar b.
-Muthanna (Iranophile
scholar), 269, 277
'Ubaydu'llah the [Fatimid]
Mahdi, 359, 409
'Ubaydu'llah b. Jibril b.
Bokht-Yishu' (physician),
367
'Ubaydu'llah b. 'Umar, 215
'Ujayf, 334
'Ulama-i-Islam (Zoroastrian
work), 109
Ultra-Shi'ites. See Ghulat
'Ulumu'l-Awwalin (“Sciences
of the Ancients”), 414
'Uman, 201, 359
'Umar b. -Khattab (Orthodox
Caliph), 51, 130, 133, 174, 194,
195, 196, 199, 202, 203, 205,
210, 213, 214, 215, 229, 235,
261, 297, 343, 349, 391, 437,
450
'Umar b. 'Abdu'l-Aziz (Umay-
yad Caliph), 215, 219, 234-
236
^*'Umara, Abu Mansur — of
Merv (Persian poet), 467
'Umayr (officer of 'Abdu'l-
Malik), 238
Umayya, 214
Umayyad Caliphs, 103, 163,
208, 209-247, 251, 263, 265,
266, 273, 274, 279, 281, 283,
313; — of Spain, 215, 245,
251, 398
Umm Kulthum, 214
Unity (Wahid = 19 in Babi
system), 98
Universal Reason, Universal
Soul, 408, 409
'Unsuri (Persian poet), 389,
456, 474
Uqba, 216
Ibn 'Uqba (biographer of
Prophet), 275
'Urfa, 134
Urva (of Vendidad identified
with Tus), 35
Ushhanj, 112. See Hushang
Ushmunayn, Bishopric of —,
399
Ustadhsis (heresiarch), 247,
317
Usrushna, 252, 331, 333
Utamish, 342
Utanj Rayhani (or Zanjani),
dialect poet, 86
-'Utbi (historian of Ghaznawi
Dynasty), 456, 457, 460, 463
'Uthman (Orthodox Caliph),
194, 195, 210, 212-218, 220,
222, 258, 261, 262, 349, 391
'Uthman b. Nahik, 316
Abu 'Uthman Sa'id b.
Humayd b. Bakhtagan
(Shu'ubi writer), 268
-Utrush, Sayyid — of Tabaris-
tan, 359, 475
'Uyunu'l - Akhbar (of Ibn
Qutayba), 15, 277

Vach- (root), 27
Vaekereta (of Vendidad, iden-
tified with Kabul), 35
Valerian (Emperor), 151
Van, 63
Vanishun (dialect of —), 27
^*Van Vloten, 212, 230, 232,
233, 235, 239-243, 245, 246,
267, 318, 351, 372, 378
Varena, The “Four-cornered”
—, 26, 35, 114
Vatican (Library), 450
Vaughan's Hours with the
Mystics, 421, 424, 444
Vedanta philosophy, 300, 301,
419
Vedas, 34, 69, 301
Vedic period, 28
Vegetarianism amongst
ancient Persians, 115
Vehrkana (Hyrcania, Gurgan),
26, 35
“Veiled Prophet of Khura-
san,” 247, 318-323. See
-Muqanna'.
Vendidad, 25, 26, 28, 34, 44,
45, 47, 48, 97-99, 141, 169
Venus (Anahita, Nahid), 95,
461, 467
Verse-forms of Persians and
Arabs, 471-474
Verse-translations fromArabic
into Persian and vice versâ,
463-465, 467
Vicar of Bray, 280
Vienna (Library), 383, 450,
478
Villon Society, 444
Virtues of the Turks, Treatise
by -Jahidh on —, 351
Vishtaspa (= Gushtasp, Hystas-
pes, q.v.), 28, 61, 62, 92-95,
116, 142
Vispered, 48, 99
Vivanha, Vivanjhan, 114
Viyakhna (month), 31
Vizier. See Wazir.
Vohu-mano, 97, 117. See also
Bahman
Vologeses (Balash), 96, 97
Vullers, 460, 468