Nádir Sháh (A.D. 1736-47), 371 n.
Nafaḥátu'l-Uns (written by Jámí ín
A.D. 1476), 124, 139 n., 140, 141 n.,
273, 283, 321, 331 n., 426 n., 434-
6, 458, 461 n., 475, 508, 512, 513
Ná'in, 331
Najáshí (envoy of Sulṭán Báyazíd to
Tímúr), 205
Najíbu'd-Dín. — Kaḥḥál (“the
oculist,” xiii, creature of Sa'du'd-
Dawla, q.v.), 32; Shaykh —
Buzghúsh (xiv), 484
Najmí (poet parodied by Busḥáq),
350
Najmu'd-Dín Kubrá (xiii), 484
Nakhjuwán, 59, 165, 166, 187, 188,
400, 417
Nakír, 522. See above under Munkir
Napoleon I (compared with Tímúr),
182
Naqdu'n-Nuṣúṣ (composed by Jámí
in A.D. 1458), 514
Naqíbu'l-Ashráf, Sayyid Táju'd-Dín
—, 71
Naqshbandí, order of dervishes, 441,
452, 506
Nárín Búqá, Amír — (xiv), 57
Nasá (in Khurásán), 354
Nasá'í, Shihábu'd-Dín — (biographer
of Jalálu'd-Dín Khwárazmsháh,
xiii), 12
Nasháṭ (acrostic on the name —),
124
Nasímí (or Nesímí, Turkish poet put
to death for heresy in A.D. 1417),
368, 369 and n., 449, 498
Náṣír. Ah-Malik al- — (Muḥammad,
Sulṭán of Egypt, A.D. 1293-1340),
49, 51, 53, 54, 170; (Faraj, A.D.
1398-1412), 196, 197, 199; —
-i-Khusraw (Persian poet and
traveller, xi), 65, 154, 510; — of
Bukhárá (Persian poet), 352
Naṣíru'd-Dín Ṭúsí (astronomer and
philosopher, xiii), 17, 18, 48, 67,
442, 502
Abú Naṣr. Ḥasan Beg Bahádur
Khán (xv), 103; — -i-Faráhí (poet
and author of the well-known
rhymed vocabulary entitled Niṣáb-
i-Ṣibyán), 350
^*Nassau Lees, Captain W. — (editor
of the Nafaḥátu'l-Uns, q.v.),
435, 508-9, 510 n.
Ná'úsá (place), 81
Nawá'í. See Mír 'Alí Shír
Nawrúz, Festival of the —, 324 n.;
— (son of Rashídu'd-Dín Faḍ-
lu'llah, xiv), 28; Amír — (Gházán
Khán's general, xiii), 40, 41, 176
Nawrúz u Gul (poem by Khwájú of
Kirmán, xiii-xiv), 225, 226
Naw-Shahr, 30, 31, 59
Náy-náma (“Book of the Reed-flute,”
by Jámí), 514, 548
Nayríz (in Fárs), 356
Nayyir of Kirmán (poet parodied by
Maḥmúd Qárí of Yazd), 352
Náẓir u Manẓúr (poem by Kátibí of
Níshápúr, xv), 487
Nebuchadnezzar, 89, 250
Nejd (or Najd), 544
Neri, 399
Nesímí. See above Nasímí
Nestorians, 11, 102
Nicholson, Dr R. A. — 88, 95
Nicolas III, Pope — (sends envoys
to Mongols in A.D. 1278), 19
Nicolas (Úljáytú said to have been
baptized under this name), 46
Niháwand, 193
Nikísá (harper of Khusraw Parwíz),
267 and n.
Nikúdarís, 25, 177
Ni'matu'lláh, Sayyid or Sháh — of
Kirmán (xiv-xv), 345, 350, 352,
353, 463-73, 497, 498
Níshápúr, 112-15, 178, 487, 488, 493
Níshápúriyán (clan or family of Qaz-
wín), 94
Niẓám. Khwája — (unidentified),
494; — -i-Shámí (biographer of
Tímúr, xiv-xv), 159, 183, 197,
203, 361-2, 363, 365
Niẓámí. — (poet of Ganja, xii), 65,
224, 226, 326 n., 348, 350, 387,
505, 510, 522, 527, 536, 540-42;
— -i-'Arúḍí of Samarqand (author
of the Chahár Maqála, q.v., xii),
65, 522
Niẓámu'd-Dín. — Awliyá (Saint,
d. A.D. 1324), 108; — Maḥ-
múd Qárí of Yazd (parodist),
211, 351-3; Abu'l-Ma'álí Naṣ-
ru'lláh (translator into Persian of
the Book of Kalíla and Dimna,
xii), 463
Niẓámu'l Mulk (minister to the Seljúqs
Alp Arslán and Maliksháh, xi), 89
Niẓámu't-Tawáríkh (historical manual
by al-Bayḍáwí, xiii), 63, 88, 100
Nizár (b. -Mustanṣir, Fáṭimid prince,
xi), 154
Nizárí of Quhistán (poet, xiii-xiv),
154-5
Nogáy (Mongol prince, xiii), 25
Northampton visited by Mongol envoy
in A.D. 1307, 11
North Sea, 6
Nu'mán, Sháh —, son of the poet
Ḥáfiẓ (buried at Burhánpúr in
India), 289
Nuqṭa (“Point”), 470, 471
Núru'd-Dín. — b. Shamsu'd-Dín
Muḥammad (author of the Gházán-
náma, composed in A.D. 1361),
103; — Raṣadí (xiii), 115; Shaykh
— 'Abdu'r-Raḥmán of Isfará'in
(xiv), 177, 191; Mullá — 'Abdu'r-
Raḥmán, see Jámí; Khwája —
Luṭfu'lláh, 424, see Ḥáfiẓ Abrú
Núru'lláh, Sayyid — of Shúshtar
(author of Majálisu'l-Mú'minín,
q.v.), 44 n., 498
Núshírwán (Sásánian king of Persia,
vi), 114, 119, 121 n., 250. See also
Chosroes, Kisrá, Sásánians
Nuṣratu'd-Dín. — Aḥmad b. Yúsuf
(Atábek of Lur-i-Buzurg, xiii-xiv),
68; Amír — Sitáy (governor of
Mawṣil, xiii-xiv), 82
-Nuṣúṣ (of Shaykh Ṣadru'd-Dín al-
Qunyawí), 514
Nuzhatu'l-Akhbár (history by Firídún
Bey, xvi), 204
Nuzhatu'l-Qulúb (geography by Ḥam-
du'lláh Mustawfí of Qazwín, xiv),
63 n., 87, 93 n., 98-100

Odoric of Pordenone, Friar — (xiv),
61
Oghurlu Muḥammad b. Úzún Ḥasan
Báyandarí (xv), the “Curlu-
mameth” or “Ugurlimehemet”
of the Venetians, 403, 410, 413
Oghuz (legendary ancestor of the
Turks), 73
Ogotáy (son and successor of Chingíz
Khán, A.D. 1227-41), 74, 383
d'Ohsson's Histoire des Mongols
(Amsterdam, 1834-5), 5, 11 n.,
12, 13, 15, 26 n., 49, 50, 53 n.,
54 n., 58 n., 60, 112 n.
Omar. See 'Umar
Omayyads. See Umayyads
Ong Khán, 11 n. See Prester John
Oriental Translation Fund, 448
Orphi, 389. See 'Urfa
'Osmán, Amír — (xvi), 417. See
also 'Uthmán
Ottoman ('Osmánli) Turks, 4, 5, 107,
156, 164 n., 196, 198-9, 201, 204,
381, 398, 400-1, 404-5, 409,
410-14, 419-23, 433, 439, 444,
507. See also Turks, and under
the names of the several Ottoman
Sulṭáns
Ouseley, Sir Gore —, 152 n., 263,
273, 292, 328 n., 473 n.
Oxford, 184
Oxus (Ámú, Jayhún), 4, 175, 190,
194, 379, 419

Paez de Santa Maria, Fray Alonzo
— (xv), 199
Paladins, 394
Palaeologus, Michael — (xiii), 18
Palmer, Professor E. H. —, 300,
305 n.
Pálú (place), 82
Pánípát, Battle of — (April 20, 1526),
393
Panj Ganj (“the Five Treasures,”
i.e. the five great romantic poems
of Niẓámí of Ganja, q.v., also
known as the “Quintet” or
Khamsa, q.v.), 326 n.
Pan-Turanian movement, 14, 15
Paper currency. See Chao
Paris, 102, 237
Pársá, Khwája — (mystic), 514
Parthians (Mulúku'ṭ - Ṭawá'if), 90
and n.
Parwíz, Khusraw — (Sásánian king,
vii), 121 n., 267 n.
Patyálí (India), 108
Pavet de Courteille, 392, 454, 455,
505 n.
Payne, 303
“Pehlevi-musulman,” 367
Pekin (Khán-báligh, Cambaluc), 397,
398
Pen, the — (Qalam), 220 n.
Persia Society, 304 n.
Persian Gulf, 3, 285, 379, 402
“Persian Historical Texts Series,”
436
Peruse, François de — (archbishop of
Sulṭániyya, A.D. 1322), 54
Petits de la Croix, 363
Petrograd, 112 n., 210 n. See also
St Petersburg
Pharaoh, 89
Philip le Bel, 49
Pian de Carpine, Friar John of —,
8, 9
Pír Aḥmad (of the Qaramán dynasty,
xv), 412
Pír 'Alí, Ghiyáthu'd-Dín — Kurt
(xiv), 179, 180; — (minister and
murderer of Khalíl Sulṭán b.
Míránsháh b. Tímúr, xv), 381;
— (brother of Bahá'u'd-Dín Qára
'Osmán of the “White Sheep”
Turkmáns, xiv), 404
“Pirameto.” See Pír Aḥmad
above
Pírí Beg Qájár (commander of Sháh
Isma'íl's army at the Battle of
Shurúr), 417-8
Pír Budáq b. Jahánsháh (of the “Black
Sheep” Turkmans, xv), 402
Pír Muḥammad (son of Ghiyáthu'd-
Dín Pír 'Alí, q.v.), 179, 180; —
b. Jahángír b. Tímúr, 186, 202,
381
Pír Pasha (connected with Ḥurúfís),
368
Pír Sulṭán (son of Rashídu'd-Dín
Faḍlu'lláh), 84, 85
Píshdádí (legendary) kings of Persia,
90
Plato, 18, 125
Pococke, 64 n.
“Point.” See Nuqṭa
Poland, 6, 10, 102
Popes, 8, 9, 10, 19, 101, 102
Portugal, 102
Potiphar's wife, 531. See Zulaykhá
Press and Poetry of Modern Persia
(by E. G. Browne), 15
Prester John, 11, 19 n.
Price's Chronological Retrospect, 196
and n., 366 n.
Printing, Invention of — ascribed to
Chinese, 14, 102-3
Prostitutes, Abú Sa'íd's legislation
against — (A.D. 1318-19), 53
Pul-i-Fasá (in Fárs), 168
Púr-i-Bahá-yi-Jámí (poet, xiii), 111-
15, 177