Ubayd-i-Zakani (Persian,
poet and satirist), 78, 82
'Ubaydu'llah the Mahdi
(founder of the Fatimid
Dynasty), 197
-'Udhayb, Pool of —, 504
Abu'l-'Ula (teacher of Kha-
qani), 81
Uljaytu (Khuda Banda), 441,
445
Ulugh Bitikji (chief secre-
tary), 453
'Umar (the Caliph), 136, 194,
228, 279, 330, 378, 419, 429
'Umar-i-'Ajami (one of San-
jar's amirs), 385
'Umar b. al-Farid (mystical
poet), 489, 498, 501-504, 506,
508
'Umar Khayyam (astronomer
and quatrain writer), 34, 84,
108, 109, 142, 164, 175, 181,
189, 190, 191, 192, 222, 246-
259, 260, 263, 292, 298, 337,
338, 374, 453, 479, 483
Umayyad Caliphs, 9, 84, 85,
281
Umm Awfa, 349
Unru Bulka, 300, 301, 311, 313
'Unsuri (Persian poet), 38, 88,
116, 119-123, 129, 130, 139,
140, 154, 155, 228, 275, 276,
327, 328, 389, 399, 483
'Unsuru'l-Ma'ali Kay-Ka'us,
276
Ural Mountains, 426
Urdu (language), 5, 532
Urganj (called also Kurkanj
and Jurjaniyya), 446
Ursa (constellation), 42
Uruk Khatun (Christian
Mongol princess), 441
Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, 477
Usdu'l-Ghaba (by Ibnu'l-
Athir), 468
Ushtur-nama (by Attar), 508
Uslub (pl. Asalib = “models”
or “moulds”), 87, 88, 89
Ustunawand, 204, 316
'Utaridi (Persian poet), 116,
157
-'Utbi (author of -Ta'rikhu'l-
Yamini), 99, 101, 103, 104,
105, 113, 114, 135, 202, 237,
471, 472
'Uthman (Caliph), 136, 194,
228, 229, 419, 420
'Uthman (uncle of Malik-
shah), 181
Utrar, 436, 437, 446
Utrush, Sayyid —, 93
Uways-i-Qarani (Sufi saint),
322
Uyghur (script), 441
'Uyunu'l-Akhbar, 192, 360-
362, 472
Uzbek, Mudhaffaru'd-Din —,
455
Uzkand, 437

Van, 222
Varangian Fiord, 483
Vatican, 273
Vattier (French translator of
al-Makin), 471
Veysi (Turkish writer), 17, 89
Vienna, 148, 273, 435
Vieux, Le —. See Old Man
of the Mountain
“Vision of God” (Ruyatu
'llah), 134

Abu'l Wafa the Kurd, 322
Wafayatu'l-A'yan, 475. See
Ibn Khallikan
Wagner, 142
Wajibi (of Farghana, poet),
335
“Wali-tirash” (the Saint-
carver,” title given to
Shaykh Najmu'd - Din
Kubra), 491
Walwalaj, 271
Walwalaji, 344. See Ruhi
Wamiq and 'Adhra, Romance
of — (by 'Unsuri), 275
Warsa, 340
Wasaya (“Injunctions”) of
the Nidhamu'l-Mulk, 191,
192, 212
Washmgir, 281
Wasit, 199, 483
Washmkuh (near Abhar), 204,
316
Wassaf-i-Hadrat ('Abdu'llah
b. Fadlu'llah of Shiraz), 17,
349, 443
Watad (in prosody), 24
Watwat (Persian poet), 20,
41, 271, 310, 330, 332, 396.
See Rashidu'd-Din
West, Dr. E. W. —, 3
Wetzstein, 362
Whale-fishing, 483
Whinfield, 108, 109, 191, 250,
251, 255, 257, 521
Wine-drinking, Ethics of —,
283-284
Wis and Ramin, Romance of
— (by Fakhru'd-Din As'ad
of Jurjan), 274, 337
Wisa, 275
Woepcke, 250, 255
Women, Immortality of —,
407
“World of Horizons,” 263
“World of Souls,” 263
Wren, Sir Christopher —, 67
Wright, Prof. W. —, 350, 483
Wüstenfeld, 110, 252, 300, 370,
475, 477, 481, 482

Xanadu (= Khan Baligh), 452

-Yafi'i, 492, 503
Yaghma, 422
Yahya A'qab, 470
Yaman, 200, 224, 321, 476, 529
Ibn Yamin (Persian poet), 23
Yamini (Persian poet), 116
-Yamini, -Ta'rikh — (by
-'Utbi, translated into Per-
sian by Jurbadhaqani), 99,
113, 135, 471
Yaminu'd-Dawla (or Yaminu
Amiri'l-Mu'minin), 94, 105,
471
Ya'qub b. Layth (Saffari), 10,
217
Yaqut -Hamawi (geogra-
pher), 431-432, 476, 481-
482, 483
Yaqut -Musta'simi (calligra-
pher), 487-488
Yaquti (Seljuq prince), 167,
172
Yaroslav, 450
Yarunqush (Amir of Sanjar),
385
Yatimatu'd-Dahr (by -Tha-
'alibi), 26, 64, 99, 100, 102,
103, 112, 114, 115, 120, 355
Yazd, 5, 203, 480
-Yazdadi (author of History
of Tabaristan), 103, 114, 115,
480
Yazdigird (father of Bahram
Gur), 409
Yazdigird-i-Shahriyar, 135, 281
“Year among the Persians”
(by E. G. Browne), 219, 243
Yerligh (safe-conduct), 458
“Yet more light on 'Umar
Khayyam” (by E. G.
Browne), 192, 252
Yumgan, 218, 225-226, 227,
228, 229, 245
Yunus b. Seljuq, 167
Yusuf (Joseph), 28
Yusuf and Zulaykha (by
Shaykh Abdu'llah Ansari),
270
Yusuf and Zulaykha (by
Firdawsi), 131, 141, 146-147
Yusuf b. Ahmad b. Muham-
mad b. 'Uthman, 475
Yusuf Narzami (? Barzami),
179
Yusuf al-Qifti, 476
Yusuf b. Zaki Mu'ayyad
(father of Nidhami), 401

Zab, Battle of —, 9
Zabulistan, 227, 237, 238
Zadu'l-'Arifin (by Shaykh
'Abdu'llah Ansari), 270
Zadu'l-Musafirin (by Nasir-i-
Khusraw), 221, 231, 244
Zahra (title of Fatima, the
Prophet's daughter), 234
Zakariyya b. Muhammad b.
Mahmud. See Qazwini
Zalzala (figure in rhetoric), 73
-Zamakhshari (philologist
and commentator), 299,
354, 359, 362, 487
Zanj (Æthiopians), 223
Zanjan, 172, 279
-Zanjani, 'Izzu'd-Din —, 487
Zanzibar, 460
Zapiski, 259
Zarkub, Shaykh —, 490
Abu Zarra'a -Ma'mari (Per-
sian poet), 373
Zawzan, 204, 316
-Zawzani (philologist), 299,
353
Zayd (in Layla and Majnun),
407, 408
Zaydi Imams, 93
Zaynab, the Lady —, 335
Zaynu'd-Din Abu Ibrahim
Isma'il -Jurjani (author of
the Dhakhira-i-Khwarazm-
shahi), 346
Zaynu'l-'Abidin, Imam —, 194
Zaynu'l-Akhbar (by Kardizi),
288
Ibnu'z-Zayyat, 87
Zeitschrift d. Deutschen Mor-
genländischen Gesellschaft, 6
Zend, 3
Zhukovski, 109, 248, 249, 250,
251, 254, 256, 257, 259, 261,
262, 263, 269, 368, 369, 371,
372, 373, 374, 375, 381, 382,
383, 389, 390, 391
Zij-i-Ilkhani (by Nasiru'd-
Din Tusi), 485
Zij-i-Malikshahi, 255
Zinati - i -'Alawi - i - Mahmudi
(Persian poet), 116, 157
Zindiqs, 230, 292, 295
Ziya Bey (Pasha), 29, 47, 88,
99
Ziyarids, 88, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95,
100, 156, 169, 281, 325
Zoroaster, 3, 130, 399
Zoroastrianism, 1, 3, 8, 113,
114
Zoroastrians, 5, 44, 87, 92, 138,
186, 214, 215, 230, 275, 276,
469, 529
Zotenberg, 101
Zubayda (wife of Malikshah),
299, 301
Zuhayr b. Abi Sulma -Muzani
(author of one of the Seven
Mu'allaqat), 349
Zulaykha, 28. See also Yusuf
and Zulaykha
Zulaykha Khatun, 182