Aaron of Scripture, 302 n 2.
Abāhāt, the nuh ābā-i-‘ulwīya, or nine
heavens, 176 n 2.
Abardhan, town of, 84 n. See
Bardhan.
Abardīn, town of, 84 n. See Bardhan.
Abāward, city of, 30 n. See under
Abīward.
‘Abbās ibn ‘Abdu-l-Mualib, uncle of
the Prophet Muḥammad, 74 n 2.
‘Abbās, Dynasty of, 13 n 1. House
of, 571 n 2. See also under the
‘Abbāsides.
‘Abbās Khān, the Historian of Shīr
Shāh, 461 n 10.
‘Abbāsides, the, 17, 310. See also
above under ‘Abbās.
‘Abdu-l-‘Azīz, one of the Amīrs of
Bābar, 441.
‘Abdu-l-‘Azīz Khān, the son of
‘Abdu-llah Khān, the Ozbak king,
582 and n 5.
‘Abdu-l-Ghafūr Lārī, Maulavī,—a
celebrated Shaikh, 588.
‘Abdu-l-Ḥaiyy, Shaikh, son of Shaikh
Jamālī Kanbāwī of Dihlī,—a poet
of the time of Islem Shāh, 526 and
n 7.
‘Abdu-l-Ḥamīd ibn Abi-l-Ḥadīd al-
Mu‘tazilī, author of the Sharḥ-i-
Nahju-l-Balāghah, 458 n 3.
‘Abdu-l-Ka‘bah ibn Abī Quḥāfah, ori-
ginal name of Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq,
successor of Muḥammad, 106 n 1.
‘Abdu-llāh, one of the best of names,
603 n 5.
‘Abdu-llāh Ḥusainī of Baiāna, Shaikh,
—one of the learned and holy men
of the time of Sulān Sikandar
Lodī, 424.
‘Abdu-llāh Khān Osbak, one of the
Amīrs of Humāyūn, 594.
‘Abdu-llah Khān, the Ozbak king of
Khurāsān, 582 and n 5.
‘Abdu-llah Niyāzī, Miyān Shaikh,—
a Niyāzī Afghān who adopted the
manners of a Mahdī, 508, 509, 510,
512, 518, 520.
‘Abdu-llāh of Sulānpūr, Mullā,—
Shaikhu-l-Islām and Ṣadru-ṣ-Ṣadūr
under Islem Shāh, 506 and n 2,
513, 514, 515, 517, 518, 519, 521,
523, 525, 534.
‘Abdu-llāh Tulumbī of Dihlī, Shaikh,
—one of the great and learned men
of the time of Sulān Sikandar
Lodī, 426 and n 10, 427, 429.
‘Abdu-llah ibn az-Zubair, sovereign
of Ḥijāz and ‘Irāq, 287 n 2.
‘Abdu-l-Malik ibn Marwān, of the
Umayyad dynasty of Khalīfahs,
12 n n 1 and 2, 18 n 1.
‘Abdu-l-Malik ibn Nūḥ Sāmānī, Amīr,
—last of the Sāmānī dynasty, 16
and n 2.
‘Abdu-l-Mualib, grandfather of
Muḥammad the Prophet, 2 n 5.
‘Abdu-l-Qādir ibn Mulūk Shāh
Badāonī, author of the Muntakhabu-
t-Tawārīkh, 8. See under al-Badāonī.
‘Abdu-l-Qādir, son of Niām Shāh
Baḥrī, ruler of the Dakkan, 625 n 3.
‘Abdu-r-Raḥmān, one of the best of
names, 603 n 5.
‘Abdu-r-Raḥmān Jāmī, Mullā Nūru-d-
Dīn, 32 n 2. See under Jāmī.
‘Abdu-r-Raḥmān ibn Muljim, mur­derer of ‘Alī, 207 n 6.
‘Abdu-r-Rashīd, son of Sulān Maḥmūd
Ghaznawī, Sulān of Ghaznīn, 50.
‘Abdu-r-Rashīd Sulānī, Sa‘ādat
Khān,—one of the Amīrs of Sulān
Maḥmūd Shāh of Dihlī, 349.
‘Abdu-r-Razzāq ibn Aḥmad ibn
Ḥasan Maimandī,—Wazīr of Sulān
Maudūd Ghaznawī, 50. Same as
Khwāja Imām Abul-Fatḥ ‘Abdu-r-
Razzāq, (q. v.).
‘Abdu-ṣ-ṣadr Ḥājib-i-Khāṣṣ, Qāẓī,—
of the Amīrs of Mubārak Shāh of
Dihlī, 393 n 3.
‘Ābid, Qāẓī,—a poet of the reign of
Fīrūz Shāh of Dihlī, 341 and n 2.
‘Abid Khān, the Ozbak king of
Khurāsān, 582 n 5.
Āb-i-Siyāh. See the Kālī Nadī,
378 n 1.
Abīward, a city of Khurāsān, also
called Abāward and Bāward, 29 n
6, 43 n 2.
Abiwerd, same as Abīward (q. v.).
Abkand, hill of, 438 n 7.
Abkh, town, 445 n 3.
Abraham, 154 n 8, 155 n, 207 and n
4, 234, 488 n 5.
Absantīn (Absinthium), herb, 586 n.
Abtar, name of a noxious serpent, 426
n 9.
Abū ‘Abdu-llah Muḥammad, ibn Abi-l-
Ḥasan Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī, the cele­brated Imām, 6 n 3. See under
Bukhārī.
Abū ‘Abdu-llah Muḥammad ibn Omar
ar-Rāzī,—a doctor of the Shāfi‘ite
sect, 73 n 1. See under Fakhru-d-
Dīn Rāzī.
Abū ‘Alī Ḥasan the Kotwāl of Ghaznīn,
and Dīwān of the kingdom under
Sulān Maudūd Ghaznawī, 47, 48, 49.
Abū ‘Alī Ḥusain bin ‘Abdu-llāh, com­monly known as Ibn Sīna (Avicen­na), 533 n 1.
Abū ‘Alī Sinjūrī,—a contemporary of
Sulān Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn, 20.
Abū Bakr, the first Khalīfah, 3 n 6,
59 n 2, 106 and n 1, 149 n, 156 n
5, 157 n, 158 n 1, 303 n 4, 604 n 5,
625 n 3. See under as-Ṣiddīq.
Abū Bakr Dolaf ibn Jahdar (or Ja‘far)
ibn Yūnus ash-Shiblī, a celebrated
Muḥammadan Saint, 59 and n 1.
Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ‘Alī
Samarqandī, Amīr Rūḥānī,—one of
the most learned men of the time of
Sulān Shamsu-d-Dīn Iyal-Timish,
93 and n 2.
Abū Bakr Khān, a prince of the family
of ‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 291.
Abū Bakr Khān, a relation of Muḥam­mad Khān the ruler of Nāgor, 423
n 11.
Abū Bakr Khān, afterwards Abū Bakr
Shāh, son of afar Khān, the grand­son of Sulān Fīroz, 341, 342, 343,
344, 345, 346.
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīya
ar-Rāzī, known as Rhazes, the
famous physician, 30 n 1.
Abū Bakr Shāh. See under Abū Bakr
Khān, son of afar Khān.
Abū Bakr Ṭūsī Ḥaidarī, chief of the
sect of Qalandars, 234.
Abū Firās Hammām, son of Ghālib,
the poet known as al-Farazdaq (q.
v.), 287 n 1.
Abū Ḥanīfah, Imām,—founder of the
Ḥanafite School of jurisprudence,
57 n 1.
Abū Ḥanīfah, a poet of the time of
Sulān Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Maḥmūd Shāh
of Dihlī, 134 n 3.
Abū Isḥāq, son of Alptigīn, governor
of Ghaznī, 13 n 1, 14 and n 1.
Abū Ja‘far al-Manṣūr, the ‘Abbāside
Khalīfah, 74 n 2.
Abu-l-‘Abbās ibn Māmūn, Khwārazm
Shāh,—a contemporary of Sulān
Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn, 23.
Abu-l-‘Abbās, al-Qādir billāhi Aḥmad
ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Muqtadir, the
‘Abbāside Khalīfah, 17 and n 2.
Abu-l-Ajsād, Father of bodies, a name
for Sulphur, 340 n 2.
Abu-l-‘Alā Ganjawī, master of the
poet Khāqānī, 583 n 4.
Abu-l-‘Alā' al-Ma‘arrī, the Arab
poet, 183 n 1.
Abu-l-Arwāḥ, Father of spirits, a
name for Quicksilver, 340 n 2.
Abu-l-Baqā, Amīr, one of the Amīrs
of Humāyūn, 465, 560, 573.
Abu-l-Barakah, 632 nn 3 and 5. Same
as the next (q. v.).