'Ubayd-i-Zákání (poet and satirist,
xiv), 159, 209, 211, 230-57, 260,
299, 350, 351, 352, 492
'Ubaydu'lláh. Khwája — of Shásh
(xiv, spiritual guide of Kamál of
Khujand), 320; Khwája — Aḥrár
(Shaykh of the Naqshbandí order
of dervishes, xv), 441
“Ugurlimehemet” (Italian corrup-
tion of Oghúrlú Muḥammad,
q.v.), 413
Úján, 52
Uljáytú (Mongol Íl-khán, reigned
A.D. 1305-16), 46-51, 52, 55, 67, 68,
70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 83, 163, 170, 171
Ulugh Beg (son of Sháh-rukh, mur-
dered by his son 'Abdu'l-Lạtíf in
A.D. 1449), 192, 364, 385, 386,
387, 388, 390, 394, 395, 400, 438,
453, 501-3
'Umar. — b. Abi'l-Khaṭṭáb (the
Caliph, vii), 250, 255; — -i-Khay-
yám (the astronomer-poet, xi-xii),
65, 119, 121, 227, 304, 335 n.,
446 n.; — b. al-Fáriḍ (Egyptian
mystical poet, xii-xiii), 514, 548;
— i-Sulṭániyya (connected with
Hurúfis, xiv), 368; — Shaykh,
Mírzá b. Míránsháh (xiv-xv), 362,
381; b. Úzún Ḥasan (killed in
A.D. 1472), 411
Umayyad Caliphs (vii-viii), 90, 91
'Ummán, Sea of —, 148, 212, 214
Úng Khán (the supposed original of
Prester John), 11, 19 n.
'Unṣurí (poet, xi), 65, 522
Urdú (Hindustání) language, 107-8
'Urfa, 389, 414
'Urfí of Shíráz (poet, circâ A.D. 1000),
292
'Urmiya, 188
Urúk Khátún (mother of Uljátú
Khudá-banda), 46
Ibn Abí Uṣaybi'a (author of the
Ṭabaqátu'l-Aṭibbá, or Biographies
of Physicians, xiii), 64
'Ushsháq-náma (“Book of Lovers”)
of 'Iráqí, 132; — of 'Ubayd-i-
Zákání, 235, 237
“Ussun Cassano” (Italian corruption
of Úzún Ḥasan, q.v.), 389, 404
Ustájlú (one of the nine tribes which
supported Sháh Isma'íl the Ṣafawí),
417
Usury prohibited by Gházán Khán
(A.D. 1299), 40
-'Utbí (author of the Ta'rikhu'l-
Yamíní, xi), 88
'Uthmán. — b. 'Affán (the Caliph,
vii), 255; Amír — of Mawṣil (A.D.
1502), 417. See also 'Osmán
Utrár, 202
Uways. Sulṭán — (Íl-khání of
Baghdád, xiv), 55, 104 n., 166,
171, 172, 208, 230, 235, 260,
262-3, 264-5, 368 n., 399; Sulṭán
— b. Sháh Shujá' (Muẓaffarí, xiv),
167, 169; — (Áq-qoyúnlú, brother
of Úzún Ḥasan), 408
Úyghúr script, 112 and n.
'Uyúnu't-Tawáríkh (of al-Kházin al-
Baghdádí), 88
Uzbek Khán (of the Golden Horde,
A.D. 1335), 57, 59
Uzbeks, 204, 379, 380, 390, 393, 399,
418, 419, 445
Úzún Ḥasan (Áq-qoyúnlú, also called
Báyandarí, q.v., d. A.D. 1477-8),
380, 381, 389, 400, 404-14, 429 n.,
443

Ván, 188
Venice, Venetians, 61, 380, 381, 405,
410, 411, 416, 429 n.
Vergil, 311
“Vision of God” (Rúyatu'lláh), 301 n.
Vüllers, 89 n.

Abu'l-Wafá, Shaykh — (xiv-xv), 445
Wafayátu'l-A'yán (by Ibn Khallikán,
xiii), 64
Wahl (translator of Ḥáfiẓ), 303
Wajíhu'd-Dín. Khwája — Zangí
(xiii), 111; Mawláná — Nasafí
(xiii), 175; Khwája — Mas'úd-i-
Sarbadár (xiv), 211-12
Walí, Amír — (ruler of Mázandarán,
xiv), 186
Abu'l-Walíd Aḥmad, Tomb of — in
Herát, 504
Walt Whitman, 107
Wang (or Ung or Ong) Khán, 11 n.
See Prester John
Wáqi'át-i-Báburí, 392. See Bábur-
náma
Waráwíní, Sa'du'd-Dín (author of
Marzubán-náma, xiii), 356
Wársáq (one of the nine tribes who
supported Sháh Isma'íl the Ṣafa-
wí), 417
Wásiṭ (in Mesopotamia), 357
Wásiṭatu'l-'Iqd (Jámí's second
Diwán), 515
Waṣṣáf-i-Ḥaḍrat (the “Court Pane-
gyrist,” 'Abdu'lláh b. Faḍlu'lláh
of Shíráz, xiv), 21, 42, 67-8,
87, 424. See also Ta'ríkh-i-
Waṣṣáf
Water of Life, 291 n.
Waṭwáṭ, Rashídu'd-Dín — (poet, xii),
65
Weil, 88 n.
Whinfield, E. H. —, 119 n., 146, 148,
300, 446 n., 448
White, Dr — (Professor of Arabic at
Oxford in A.D. 1779), 184
“White Garden” (Herát), 501
“White Hand” (Yad-i-Bayḍá), 267,
470 and n.
“White Sheep” Turkmáns. See Áq-
qoyúnlú
Wickerhauser, 156, 542
Wilson, C. E. —, 515
Winchester, Bishop of — (A.D. 1238),
6
Wine-drinking. See Drink
Wolf, Dr —, 346
“Wurchanadin” (i.e. Burhánú'd-
Dín, q.v.), 404 n.
Wüstenfeld, 64 n., 88 n.

Yádigár Muḥammad (xv), 389, 410
-Yáfi'í, Imámu'd-Dín — (xiii), 88;
Shaykh 'Abdu'lláh — (xiv), 356,
464
Yaḥyá. — (son of the Ṣáḥib-Díwán,
xiii), 29; Nuṣratu'd-Dín Sháh —
Muẓaffarí (xiv), 167, 168, 169,
190, 292; Khwája — yi-Narrád
(favourite of Míránsháh, put to
death by Tímúr about A.D. 1400),
195 n.
Yaman (Arabia Felix), 89, 184
Yamínu'd-Dín. Amír — Ṭughrá'í
(father of the poet Ibn-i-Yamín,
xiv), 211, 215; Amír — (one of
Mírzá Báysunghur's poets, xv),
501
Ibn-i-Yamín, Amír Maḥmúd — (son
of the above, d. A.D. 1367-8), 159,
179, 210, 211-222
Yanbú', 398
Ya'qúb (son of Úzún Ḥasan, xv), 413
and n., 414-16
Yáqút. — (the historian and geo-
grapher, xiii), 6, 12; — al-Musta'-
ṣimí (the celebrated calligraphist,
xiii), 84
Yarmouth, 6
Yasá'úl (xiv), 52
Yasáwur (rebellion of —, A.D. 1318),
52
Yasúr Nikúdarí, Prince — (killed in
A.D. 1320), 177
Yazd, 119, 162, 163, 168, 169, 193,
208, 225, 290, 364, 389, 418, 464
Yazdigird (name of three Sásánian
kings). — I “the sinful” (A.D.
399-420), 250; — III, son of
Shahriyár, the last of the line,
90
Yazíd b. Mu'áwiya (Umayyad), 256
Year amongst the Persians (by E. G.
Browne), 241 n., 299 n.
Yeñi Túrán (the “Pan-Turanian”
movement), 15
Yildirim (“the Thunderbolt”) Báya-
zíd (the Ottoman Sulṭán Báyazíd I,
reigned A.D. 1389-1402), 173, 196.
See under Báyazíd
Yima (in the Avesta, the Jam or
Jamshíd of the Persian epic),
290 n., 317 n.
Yúnus Khán (xv), 364
Yúrish-i-Panj-sála (Tímúr's “Five
years' campaign,” A.D. 1392-6),
190-3
Yúsuf. — Amírí (poet of Mírzá
Báysunghur, xv), 501; — i-Anda-
kání (musician of Sháh-rukh, xv),
384, 498, 500; — Badí'í (poet of
Bábur's time, xv-xvi), 459; —
Beg (xvii), 318; — i-Dámghání
(connected with Ḥurúfís, xiv),
368; — Ḍiyá'u'd-Dín (Jámí's son),
514, 527; — Sháh (minstrel, xiv),
264; — b. Úzún Ḥasan (killed
in A.D. 1472), 411, 417
^*Yúsuf u Zulaykhá (poem by Jámí,
composed in A.D. 1483), 516, 531-
3, 535
Yúsuf, Súratu — (súra xii of the
Qur'án), 325 n.