Abu-l-Barakāt of Māwarāu-n-Nahr,
Khwājā, 632 and nn 3 and 5. See
the above.
Abu-l-Faraj Rūnī, the Ustād, a cele­brated poet of the time of Sulān
Ibrāhīm Ghaznawī, Saiyyidu-s-
Salāīn, 53 n, 54 and n 1.
Abu-l-Fatḥ ‘Abdur-Razzāq, grandson
of Ḥasan Maimandī, Khwāja
Imām,—Wazīr of Sulān Maudūd
Ghaznawī, 47, 50.
Abu-l-Fatḥ, Mīyān Shaikh, son of
Shaikh-allahdīyah of Khairābād,
546 and n 1.
Abu-l-Fatḥ al-Mu‘taẓid billāhi, sixth
of the ‘Abbāsī Khalīfahs in Egypt,
327 n 6.
Abu-l-Fatḥ Sulān Afshār, one of the
Amīrs of the Qizilbāsh, 575 n 3.
Abu-l-Fatḥ of Thanesar, Mīyān,—a
learned doctor of the time of Islem
Shāh, 513.
Abul-Fazl ‘Allāmī,—the celebrated
minister of Akbar and author of
the Āin-i-Akbarī, 26 n 2, 27 n 1, 52
n 3, 384 n 3, 408 n 1, 410 n 4, 415
n 4, 417 n 7, 503 n 3.
Abu-l-Faẓl Zangī, of Bust,—a con­temporary of Sulān Maudūd Ghaz­nawī, 47.
Abul Feda, Annales, 167 n 4.
Abul Feda, Geography of, 14 n 3,
15 n and n n 2 and 5, 17 n 4, 23 n
1, 27 n 1 and 2, 30 n and n 1, 34 nn
1, 2 and 3, 35 n 2, 36 nn 2 and 10,
42 n 1, 43 nn 1, 3 and 4, 46 n 1,
50 n 2, 67 n 1, 71 n 3, 147 n 1,
167 n 4, 265 n 5.
Abu-l-Fidā'. See under Abul Feda.
Abu-l-Ḥāri Sinjar ibn Malakshāh
ibn Alp Arslār the Seljūq, 167 n
3. See under Sinjar.
Abu-l-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Abi-l-Karam
Muḥammad ash-Sharbānī, Shaikh,
commonly known as Ibnu-l-Aīr,
624 n 8.
Abu-l-Ḥasan ‘Alī, Sulān, son of Sulān
Mas‘ūd Ghaznawī, 50 and n 1.
Abu-l-Hirṣ Manṣūr Sāmānī, Amīr,
14 n 1. See under Manṣūr ibn
Nūḥ.
Abu-l-Majdūd, son of Sulān Mas‘ūd
Ghaznawī, 37 and n 6.
Abu-l-Ma‘ālī, Shāh, one of the great
Amīrs of Humāyūn, 592, 594, 596,
597.
Abu-l-Mujāhid, son of Sulān Mas‘ūd
Ghaznawī, 37 and n 6.
Abu-l-Najm Amīr Aiyāz, 33 n 3. See
under Aiyāz.
Abu-l-Qāsim Beg, one of the Amīrs
of Humāyūn, 474.
Abu-l-Qāsim Firdausī, the famous
poet, author of the Shāh Nāmah,
32 n 1. See under Firdansī.
Abu-l-Qāsim Ibrāhīm, Sulān, son of
Mas‘ūd, son of Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn,
53. See under Ibrāhīm Sayyidu-s-
Salāīn.
Abu-l-Qāsim Maḥmūd, son of Sulān
Maudūd Ghaznawī, 48.
Abu-l-Qāsim-i-Nūḥ, son of Manṣūr,
son of Nūḥ Sāmānī, Amīr, 14 n 1.
See under Nūḥ, son of Manṣūr, son
of Nūḥ Sāmānī.
Abu-l-Wāḥid Fārighī, Shaikh, a poet
of the time of Humāyūn, 616 and
n 4, 617 and n 6, 618. See the
next.
Abu-l-Wajd Fārighī, Shaikh, 616 n 4,
617 and n 6, 618. Same as the
above (q. v.).
Abu-l-Wājid Fārighī, Shaikh, 616 n 4.
See the two above.
Abū Manṣūr Zangī, brother of Abu-l-
Faẓl of Bust (q. v.), 47.
Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdu-r-Raḥmān ibn
Yahīn ibn Yūnas Aljigilī, the
Khaīb of Samarqand, 159 n.
Abū Muḥammad ibn Adam Sanāī al-
Ḥakīm, 35 n 1. See under Ḥakīm
Sanāī, 56 n 2.
Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥajjāj, son of
Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥakam a-aqafī,
12 n 1. See under al-Ḥajjāj.
Abū Muḥammad Niāmu-d-Dīn
Aḥmad, the celebrated poet Niāmī,
298 n 4. See under Shaikh Niāmī
Ganjawī.
Abu-n-Najm Amīr Aiyāz, 33 n 3. See
under Aiyāz.
Abu-n-Najm Aḥmad Manūchihrī
Dāmaghānī, Ḥakīm,—a Poet of the
time of Sulān Mas‘ūd Ghaznawī,
46 n 4.
Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn
‘Abduṣ-Ṣamad, Wazīr of the Ghaz­nawī Sulāns, 46.
Abū Naṣr Muḥammad bin Aḥmad,—
one of the Amīrs of Sulān Maudūd
of Ghaznīn, 47.
Abū Naar ‘Abdu-l-‘Azīz ibn Manṣūr,
Ḥakīm, the poet known as ‘Asjadī,
17 n 3.
Abū Qaḥāfah. See Abū Quḥāfah.
Abū Qaḥāfah, father of Abū Bakr
aṣ-Ṣiddīq, the first of the Khalīfahs,
106 and n 1.
Abūrijā, Malik Ḥusāmu-d-Dīn or
Mujīru-d-Dīn,—one of the Amīrs
of Sulān Muḥammad Tughlaq
Shāh, 305, 308.
Abū Sa‘īd ‘Abdullah ibn Abu-l-Ḥasan
‘Alī Baiẓāwī, Qāẓī,—author of the
Niāmu-t-Tawārīkh, 34 n 8. See
under Baiẓāwī.
Abū Shujā‘ Muḥammad, son of Chā­kirbeg Dāūd, son of Mīkāīl Saljūqī,
surnamed ‘Aẓdu-d-Daulah Alp
Arslān, third monarch of the
Saljūqīyah dynasty, 35 and n 1.
See under Alp Arslān.
Abū Tāher (Ṭāhir), chief of the Kar­matian sect of Muslim heretics,
21 n 1.
Abū Ṭālib, uncle of the Prophet
Muḥammad and father of ‘Alī, 74
n 2, 105 n 2.
Abū Ṭālib family, 74 n 2. See the
above.
Abū Ṭālib of ‘Irāq, Mīr Sayyid,—
a contemporary of Islem Shāh, 505.
Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn Mīkā'īl
ibn Saljūq, Ruknu-d-Dīn Tughral
Beg, 42 n 3. See under Tughral
Beg, founder of the Saljūq dy­nasty.
Abū ‘Umar Minhāju-d-Dīn ‘Umān
ibn Sirāju-d-Dīn al-Juzjānī, author
of the Ṭabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī, 127 n 2.
See under Minhāj-i-Sirāj.
Abyssinian slaves, 334.
Acesines, the,—the river Chenāb, 23
n 3.
Aconite plants, 586 n.
‘Ād, tribe of,—a pre-historic tribe of
Arabs, 261 n 6, 499 and n 5.
Adam, 4, 144 n 2, 200 n, 304, 320 n 4,
422, 449 n 8.
Ādam Ghakkar, or Ghakkar, Sulān,
—a contemporary of Islem Shāh
and Humāyūn, 503, 583, 592 and
n 4. The name is also spelt Ghakar,
Ādam Kūkar, Malik,—one of the
Amīrs of Sulān Ibrāhīm Lodī, 431.
432.
Ādam Lodī, Malik,—one of the Amīrs
of Sulān Sikandar Lodī, 419.
‘Adāwat, enmity, 576 n 5, 577 n.
Adeṣar, Rāi of Satgaṛh,—contem­porary of Fīrūz Shāh, 329 n 5.
‘Ādil Khān, brother of Sārang Khan,
the ruler of Dīpālpūr, 349 and n 5.
‘Ādil Khān, Malik Naṣīru-l-Mulk,
the governor of the Doāb, 354, 359.
‘Ādil Khān, son of Shīr Shāh, 476,
477, 479, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490,
492.
Aditya, name of the Sun in Sanskrit
as being the origin of all things,
79 n 2.
Adjmere, same as Ajmīr (q. v.), 129
n 2.
‘Adl Khān Sūr, 550 n 11. See under
‘Adlī.
‘Adlī, popular name of Sulān Mu­ḥammad ‘Ādil, son of Niām Khān
Sūr, formerly Mubāriz Khān (q. v.),
536, 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, 542,
544, 545, 548, 550, 552, 555, 556
and n 5, 557, 558, 592.
Adonis, 104 n 2.
Adwantgaṛh, fortress, 422 n 2.
Af‘alu-t-tafẓīl, 515 and n 6.
Afgans, 80 n 5. See under the
Afghāns.
Afghān, Malik, 334,—of the Maliks of
Fīroz Shāh.
Afghānistān, 362 n 2, 466, 520.
Afghānpūr, 259, 300.
Afghāns, the, 44, 80 n 5, 129 n 2, 399,
436, 439, 440, 443, 444, 457, 458,
460, 470, 471, 477, 479, 487, 489,
490, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503
n 2, 513, 517, 520, 525, 528, 537,
543, 549, 551, 552, 554, 558, 586,
588, 590, 592, 593, 594, 595, 597,
598.