Sab'a (the “Septet” of Jámí, also
called Haft Awrang, q.v.), 515
Sabzawár, 160, 161, 178, 186, 208,
212, 498
de Sacy, Silvestre —, 432 n.
Ṣad Pand (by 'Ubayd-i-Zákání, xiv),
251
Ṣad Wa'ẓ (by Maḥmúd Qárí of Yazd,
xv), 352
Sa'd b. Abú Bakr, Atábek of Fárs
(xiii), 121
Sa'dí, Shaykh Muṣliḥu'd-Dín — of
Shíráz (xiii), 15, 16, 70, 100, 105,
106, 115, 116, 119, 139, 143, 153,
224, 232 n., 238, 293, 329, 348,
350, 352, 401, 484, 485, 486, 510,
516, 522, 529, 531, 548
Sa'dí, order of dervishes, 452
Ṣadr-i-Jahán. Ṣadru'd-Dín Aḥmad-
i-Khálidí of Zanján (prime minister
to Gaykhátú, A.D. 1291-5), 31, 37,
39, 69; Jamálu'd-Dín Dastajirdání
(prime minister to Baydú, A.D.
1295), 41; Mawláná — of Bu-
khárá, 82
Ṣadru'd-Dín. — Aḥmad-i-Khálidí,
see immediately above; Shaykh —
Ibráhím (xiii), 40; Shaykh —
Qunyawí (of Qonya, Konia or
Iconium), 63, 127, 445, 514; —
'Alí b. Naṣíru'd-Dín Ṭúsí (xiii),
67; Shaykh — b. Bahá'u'd-Dín
Zakariyyá (xiii-xiv), 81; Mawláná
— Muḥammad Turka'í (xiii-xiv),
81, 83; — Qayruwání (parodied
by Busḥáq), 350; Mawláná —
(connected with the Ḥurúfís, xiv),
368; Shaykh — of Ardabíl (an-
cestor of the Ṣafawí kings, xv),
473, 474, 484; Shaykh — Yamaní
(xiv), 473
Sa'du'd-Dawla (Jewish minister of
Arghún, A.D. 1284-91), 31-6
Sa'du'd-Dín. — -Ḥamawí (xiii), 40;
— of Sáwa (xiii-xiv), 48, 50, 69,
70; — Maṣ'úd b. 'Umar-Taftá-
zání (xiv), 159, 353-4, 458; — b.
Rashídu'd-Dín Faḍlu'lláh (xiii-
xiv), 84, 86; — b. Naṣír (parodied
by Busḥáq), 350; — Waráwíní
(author of Persian version of the
Marzubán-náma), 356
-Ṣafadí (xiv), 356
Ṣafawí dynasty (A.D. 1502-1736), 160,
207, 315, 316 n., 317, 379, 380,
396, 397, 399, 400, 407, 414, 416,
417-20, 421 n., 434, 439, 459, 464,
473, 475, 484, 507
Ṣaffárí dynasty (A.D. 867-900), 91
Ṣaff-i-Ni'ál (the “shoe-row”), 323 n.
Ṣafí or Ṣafiyyu'd-Dín of Ardabíl,
Shaykh — (ancestor of the Ṣafawí
kings), 85, 474, 484-6
Safínatu'sh-Shu'ará (Turkish trans-
lation of Dawlatshah's “Memoirs of
the Poets” by Sulaymán Fahmí), 436
Ságharí (poet, satirized by Jámí), 512
Ṣaḥá'ifu'l-Akhbár (general history in
Turkish by Munajjim-báshí,
q.v.), 383 n., 384 n., 385 n., 403 n.,
407
Saḥbán b. Wá'il, 116 and n.
Ṣáḥib-Díwán-i-Juwayní, Shamsu'd-
Dín — (xiii), 20-24, 27-31, 66,
106, 115, 121, 153, 175
Ṣáḥib-Qirán (“Lord of the Fortunate
Conjunction,” title given to Tí-
múr, q.v.), 185
Ṣá'ib (Persian poet), 292
Abú Sa'íd. — b. Abi'l-Khayr (mystic
and poet, xi), 65, 121; — (Mongol
Íl-Khán of Persia, A.D. 1317-35),
48, 51-8, 59, 71, 74, 95, 99, 103,
159, 160, 170, 171, 178, 215, 222,
226, 251, 261, 352(?), 389, 429-
30; Sulṭán — (grandson of Mírán-
sháh b. Tímúr, xv), 388-90, 402,
406, 409-10, 421 n., 429, 487 n.,
506 n.
St Albans, 6
St Bartholomew's Hospital, 303
St Peter, 102
St Petersburg, 210 n., 425, 509. See
also Petrograd.
St Sophia (Constantinople), 367
Ṣá'inu'd-Dín Tarika (saint, xv), 489
-Sakkákí (author of Miftáḥu'l-'Ulúm,
xiii), 272 n.
Sakyamuni (Buddha), 73
Ṣaláḥu'd-Dín Músá, 386. See Qáḍí-
záda-i-Rúmí
^*Salámán u Absál (poem by Jámí,
xv), 523-6
Salemann, 156
Salgharid Atábeks of Fárs (xii-xiii),
73, 74, 92
Ṣáliḥiyya cemetery (Damascus), 128
Salím. — (or Selím) “the Grim”
(Ottoman Sulṭán, xvi), 107 and
n.; — (Persian poet), 292
Sálí Noyan, 174
Saljúqs. See Seljúqs
Saljúq-náma (of Ẓahírí of Níshápúr),
89
Salmá (woman's name), 544, 545
Salmán of Sáwa (poet, xiv), 60, 159,
171, 172, 211, 230, 233, 234, 260-
71, 291, 293, 296-8, 325, 348, 350,
352, 490, 491, 522
Salmás, 188
Sám. — (legendary hero of Persia,
grandfather of Rustam), 316 n.;
— Mírzá (Ṣafawí prince, xvi, author
of the Tuḥfa-i-Sámí, q.v.), 439,
459, 507, 514
Samak (the Fish which supports the
Earth), 113 and n.
Sámánid dynasty (x), 91, 522
Samarqand, 169, 180, 186-9, 191-4,
196, 197, 199, 202, 206, 283, 329,
354, 355, 362, 368, 381, 386, 390,
394, 418, 428, 436, 438, 464, 473,
491, 502
Saná'í (poet, xii), 65, 261, 343, 344,
352, 522
Sanguinetti, 64 n.
San Lucar, 201
Santa Maria, 199
Saráb, Sarai, Saráw, Saráy, 53 n.,
122, 321, 473
Saracens, 9
Sarakhs, 186, 354
Sarandíb (Ceylon), 122
Saráw-rúd, 70
Saráy Khátún (or Sára Khátún, mother
of Úzún Ḥasan, xv), 407, 408 n.
Sarbadár dynasty of Sabzawár (xiv),
60, 160, 161, 178-80, 208, 210,
211, 216, 498
Ṣarf-i-Mír (by -Sharíf-Jurjání, xiv,
xv), 355
Sárí (Mázandarán), 494
Sarjam (near Zanján), 426
Sásánian kings of Persia (iii-vii), 3,
14, 68, 74, 90, 119, 120, 121, 250,
267, 414, 500 n.
Sátí Beg (daughter of Úljáytú, and
queen in A.D. 1339), 51, 53, 55,
59, 170
Savinj (Sevinj), Amír — (d. A.D.
1318), 52
Savinj (Sevinj), Qutlugh Ághá (niece
of Tímúr, xiv), 179
Sáwa, 55, 400
Sawániḥ (by Shaykh Aḥmad Ghaz-
zálí), 135 and n.
Sawdá'í, Bábá — (poet, xv), 438
Sawmá, Rabban — (one of envoys
sent by Arghún to Europe in A.D.
1287-8), 31
Sayfí. — of Herát (historian), 174,
176, 431; — of Bukhárá (poet,
xv), 438, 458
Sayfu'd-Dín. — of Isfarang (poet,
xiii-xiv), 154; Sháh — (praised
by Busḥáq), 350; Amír — Maḥ-
múd (father of Amír Khusraw,
xiii), 108
Sayyids, heretical — (xiv), 190
Sayyid-i-Sharíf-i-Jurjání (xiv), 159,
166, 189-90, 355
Schefer, M. Charles —, 89 n.
Schiltberger, Johann — (xiv-xv), 404 n.
Schlechta-Wssehrd, 216, 515
Scotland, Scotch, 43, 102
“Sechaidar,” “Secheaidare” (Italian
corruption of Shaykh Ḥaydar,
q.v.), 416 n.
Sédillot, 502 n.
Seljúqs, 73, 74, 83, 91-2, 111
Seven Heavens, 248 and n.
“Seven Lean Years,” 325 n.
“Seven Years' Campaign” of Tímúr,
196
Seville, 199
Sevinj. See Savinj
Shábarán, 83
Shabistar, 146
Shabistarí, Shaykh Maḥmúd —
(mystical poet, xiii-xiv), 146-50,
300, 484
Shád Malak (the beloved of Khalíl
Sultán, xv), 381-2
Shafáthá, 81
Sháfi'í (sect), 46, 50, 70, 97, 98, 356
Sháh u Gadá (“the King and the
Beggar,” poem by Hilálí), 459
Sháh Jahán. — Qára-Khitá'í (ruler
of Kirmán, A.D. 1301-3), 48; —
Tímúr (descendant of Abáqá, xiv),
60; — (Mogul Emperor, A.D.
1628-59), 184, 391
Sháh-náma (of Firdawsí, xi), 65, 89,
95, 104, 111, 316 n., 352, 385,
532, 541
Sháh-rukh. — b. Tímúr (A.D. 1404-
47), 74, 169, 192, 193, 194, 344,
364, 366, 379, 380-7, 393, 395,
398, 400, 401, 404, 421 n., 424,
425, 427-8, 435, 438, 464, 473,
475, 498, 501, 502; — b. Abú
Sa'íd (Tímúrid, xv), 410
Sháh Shujá' (Muẓaffarí, xiv), 163,
164, 165, 166-7, 169, 172, 186,
206, 258, 264, 276 n., 278, 279,
280, 281-2, 290, 299, 355, 357,
360
Sháhí. Amír — (poet of Sabzawár,
xv), 352, 438, 498, 501; — Khátún
(daughter of Rashídu'd-Dín Faḍ-
lu'lláh, xiii-xiv), 84
Sháhinsháh-náma (or Chingíz-náma)
of Aḥmad of Tabríz (A.D. 1337),
103
Shahr-i-Naw, 398
Shahr-i-Sabz (Kash, near Samarqand)
194
Shákh-i-Nabát (alleged sweetheart of
Ḥáfiẓ), 287
Shám (Damascus, a word-play on the
name), 122
Shamákhí, 83, 417
Shamans, 44
Sham'í. See Shem'í
Shámlú (one of the nine tribes who
supported Sháh Isma'íl the Ṣa-
fawí), 417
Shams. — i-Qays (prosodist, xiii),
16; — i-Tabríz (mystic, xiii), 139,
343, 465, 484; i-Ṭabasí (poet), 65;
Amír — (connected with Ḥurúfís,
xiv), 368; — i-'Alá (poet satirized
by Kátibí, xv), 492-3
Shamsu'd-Dín. — Muḥammad-i-
Juwayní, entitled Ṣáḥib-Díwán,
q.v.; — (grandfather of the pre-
ceding, xii), entitled Buzurg (“the
Great”) and Múy-diráz (“the
Long-haired”), 20; Mawláná —
(xiii), 28; — b. Ruknu'd-Dín-i-
Kurt (xiii), 57, 174, 175; —
Muḥammad-i-Kurt (xiv), 177-8;
Qádí — Muḥammad b. Ḥasan
(xiii-xiv), 81; — Muḥammad-i-
Abarqúhí (xiii-xiv), 86; Sayyid
— (connected with Ḥurúfís, xiv),
368; — (ruler of Akhláṭ in A.D.
1425), 401; Amír — Zakariyyá
(first Prime Minister of Sháh Is-
ma'íl the Ṣafawí, A.D. 1500), 417;
— Gílání (first Chancellor of Sháh
Isma'íl, A.D. 1500), 417
Shanb-i-Gházání, 361
Shápúr. — I (Sásánian king, iii),
93; — (unidentified, xv), 494
-Shaqá'iqu'n-Nu'mániyya (bio-
graphies of Ottoman divines), 369
Sharafu'd-Dín. — Hárún-i-Juwayní
(poet and patron of poets), 20-1;
— Ḥasan Mustawfí (xiii-xiv), 82;
Mawláná — i-Tabasí (xiii-xiv),
86; — 'Alí Yazdí (biographer of
Tímúr, xv), 159, 181, 183, 189,
190, 191, 196, 197, 198, 201, 202,
203, 356, 361, 362-5, 385, 438,
see also Ẓafar-náma; — Muẓaf-
far b. Mubárizu'd-Dín) A.D. 1325-
53), 163; — Rámí (author of the
Anísu'l-'Ushsháq, A.D. 1423), 462
Sharafiyya College (in Taft of Yazd),
364
Shásh (or Chách, the modern Tásh-
kand), 110, 320 and n.
Shaṭṭu'l-'Arab, 511 and n.
Shawáhidu'n-Nubuwwa (“Evidences
of Prophethood,” composed by
Jámí in A.D. 1480), 512-13
Shaybání Khán the Uzbek (xv-xvi),
380, 390, 393, 418-19, 459
Shaykhí b. Rashídu'd-Dín Faḍlu'lláh
(xiii-xiv), 84
Shaykhí Ná'í (musician, xv-xvi), 505
Shaykhum Suhaylí, Amír — (poet,
xv), 438, 457
Shem'í (Turkish commentator of
Ḥáfiẓ), 299
Shiblí. Sulṭán — b. Sháh Shujá'-i-
Muẓaffarí (xiv), 167, 169; —
Nu'mání (Indian critic and scholar,
xix-xx), 108, 261, 265, 267, 269,
271, 273, 274, 280 n., 289, 291,
292 n., 293, 296
Shiháb, Mawláná 'Alí — of Turshíz
(poet, xv), 498
Shihábu'd-Dín. — -Nasá'í (bio-
grapher of Jalálu'd-Dín Manko-
birní, xiii), 12; — Suhrawardí
(Sháfi'í doctor of Baghdád, xiii-
xiv), 70, 139; Amír — (governor
of Baghdád, xiii-xiv), 82; — b.
Rashídu'd-Dín Faḍlu'lláh (xiii-
xiv), 84; — Ḥaydar (satirized
by 'Ubayd-i-Zákání, xiv), 238;
Shaykh — Qalandar (satirized
by 'Ubayd-i-Zákání, xiv), 257;
Shaykh — 'Abdu'lláh (or 'Azí-
zu'lláh) of Khwáf, 426, 428. See
also Ḥáfiẓ Abrú
Shí'a, Shí'ites, 42, 44, 50, 51, 178,
224, 255, 256, 301, 315, 372, 416,
418, 441, 456, 458, 464, 475, 498,
511, 521 n. See also Ráfidís
Shíráz, 15, 16, 30, 33, 38, 39, 84, 86,
163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 169, 188,
189, 190, 191, 206, 208, 225, 230,
231, 237, 238, 274, 276 n., 277,
281, 282, 283, 303, 311, 344, 355,
356, 357, 358, 359, 363, 366, 410,
413, 418, 423, 427, 436, 444, 485,
486, 500
Shíráz-náma (composed in A.D. 1343
by Shaykh Fakhru'd-Dín), 360-1
Shírín (the beloved of Khusraw Par-
wíz), 329, 547
Shi'ru'l-'Ajam (by Shiblí Nu'mání,
q.v.), 108, 109, 261, 265, 273, 292 n.
Shírwán, 374, 401, 416, 417, 449,
488, 494, 495
Shírwán-sháh (xiii-xiv), 83, 225
Shírzád, clan or family of Qazwín, 94
Shujá', Sháh —. See above under
Sháh Shujá'
Shurúr, Battle of — (A.D. 1502), 379,
417-18
Shúshtar, 166, 168, 189, 191
Síbak (poet, xv), 438
Síḥún. See Jaxartes
Silesia, 6
^*Silsilatu'dh-Dhahab (the “Chain of
Gold,” composed by Jámí in A.D.
1485), 510, 516-23
Silsilatu'n-Nasab-i-Ṣafawiyya (a rare
work on the Genealogy of the
Ṣafawí kings of Persia), 474, 484
Simák (the star Arcturus), 113
Símí (poet and calligraphist, xv), 488,
493
Simnán, 55, 81, 190
Símurgh, 316
Sinai, Mount —, 114
Sind, 83
Sindibád-náma (Turkí translation of
—), 94
Sinjár (place near Mawṣil), 82, 399
Sinope, 205
Siráju'd-Dín of Dizful, Khwája —
(government auditor, xiii-xiv), 83
Ṣiráṭ, Bridge of —, 522
Síratu'n-Nabí (“Biography of the
Prophet,” probably Ibn Hishám's),
88 and n.
Sírján, 169, 190, 192
Sístán, 86, 91, 160, 175, 177, 181,
186, 187, 193, 388, 392, 456
Síwás, 83, 192, 196, 204, 205, 206,
404, 417
Siyáh-púsh Káfirs, 193
Siyaru'l-Mulúk (“Biographies of the
Kings”), 89. The work here in-
tended is the Siyásat-náma, q.v.
Siyásat-náma (by the Niẓámu'l-Mulk,
xi), 88-9
Siyáwush, 317-18
de Slane, Baron McGuckin —, 64 n.,
462 n.
Smith, Vincent A. — (historian of
Akbar's reign), 393 n.
Smyrna, 199
Solivero, of Barcelona (Spanish envoy
at Gházán's court about A.D.
1300), 44
Solomon, 317 n.
Somnáth, 477
“Sortes Vergilianæ,” 311
“Spaan,” “Spaham” (Italian cor-
ruptions of Iṣfahán, q.v.), 389,
410
Spain, Spaniards, Spanish, 4, 44,
199-201, 396
Sprenger (Catalogue of the Library of
the King of Oude), 125 and n.,
155 and n.
Ssufismus (by Dr Tholuck), 147
Stewart, Major Charles — (translator
of Malfúẓát-i-Tímúrí, 1830), 184
le Strange, Guy —, 63 n., 70 n., 80,
93 n., 99, 100, 155 n., 304, 356 n.,
426
Strassburg or Strasbourg, 107 n.
^*Subḥatu'l-Abrár (the “Rosary of the
Pious,” by Jámí. xv), 516, 528-31
-Subkí (scholar and lecturer at Da-
mascus, xiv), 357
Subutáy (Mongol general, xiii), 25,
96, 97
Súdí (Turkish commentator of Ḥáfiẓ),
299, 302
Ṣúfíism, Ṣúfís, 85, 92, 319 n., 417,
435
Suhaylí. See Anwár-i- —, Shayk-
hum
Sulaymán. — Khán (one of the last
puppet Íl-kháns of Persia, xiv),
60; Sulṭán — “the Magnificent”
(Qánúní, A.D. 1520-66), 396;
Prince — (brother of Sulṭán Mu-
ḥammad I, killed in A.D. 1410),
400, 404; — Fahmí (translator of
Dawlatsháh's “Memoirs of the
Poets” into Turkish), 436
Abú Sulaymán Dá'úd. See Banákatí
Sulaymán Kúh, 193
Sulṭán 'Alí. — (elder brother of
Sháh Isma'íl the Ṣafawí), 416; —
(calligraphist of Mashhad, xv), 459
Sulṭán Veled (or Walad, son of Maw-
láná Jalálu'd-Dín Rúmí and author
of the Rabáb-náma, xiii), 155-6
Sulṭániyya, 48, 51, 53, 54, 55, 61, 67,
70, 81, 166, 187, 190, 192, 400, 401
Sunnís, 50, 178, 238, 256, 301, 315,
418, 419, 521
Sunqur Báwarchí (governor of Baṣra,
xiii-xiv), 81
Surghátmish Qará-Khitá'í (ruler of
Kirmán, xiii), 163
Surúrí (Turkish commentator of
Ḥáfiẓ), 299
Sús, 81
Ṣuwaru'l-Aqálím (geographical work
by Abú Zayd Aḥmad b. Sahl al-
Balkhí), 99
Suyurghatmish (son of Sháh-rukh,
died A.D. 1426-7), 385 n.
-Suyúṭí, 'Abdu'r-Raḥmán Jalálu'd-
Dín — (historian and polymath,
xv), 164 n.
Súzaní (poet and satirist, xii), 257
Swan and Sonnenschein (publishers),
532 n.
Syria, Syrians, 19, 41, 42, 51, 53, 69,
85, 86, 92, 127, 197, 205, 397,
404, 408, 417, 466, 468
Syriac language, 12, 31
Synagogues (destroyed by Gházán in
Persia about A.D. 1295), 40