Qāān, title originally given to the
supreme sovereign of the Moguls,
145 n 2.
Qāān-i-Mulk, title of Sulān Muḥam-
mad, son of Sulān Ghiyāu-d-Dīn
Balban, 187, 189 and n 1, 217.
Qāānī, the famous Persian poet, 253
n 6.
Qabā, a tunic worn by men, 120
n 7.
Qabā Khān Gang, one of the Amīrs
of Humāyūn, 597.
Qabaq, a gourd in Turkī, 621 n 4,
622 and n 1.
Qabaq andāzī, the game of, 621 n 5.
See the next.
Qabaq bāzī, a game of the ancient
Turkomāns, who used to hang up
a wooden gourd as a mark for
archery, 621 n 4. See also the
above.
Qabūl, Malik, Governor of Badāon
under Sulān Fīroz Shāh Tughlaq,
335.
Qabūl Khalīfatī, Malik, 315.
Qabūl Qiwāmu-l-Mulk, Malik, one of
the Amīrs of Sulān Muḥammad
Tughlaq Shāh, 304, 315.
Qabūl Sarbardadār, Malik, one of the
Amīrs of Sulān Fīroz Shāh Tugh-
laq, 328 and n 1.
Qabūl Torāband, Malik, one of the
Amīrs of Sulān Fīroz Shāh Tugh-
laq, 328 n 1.
Qabūlpūra, a quarter of Badāon,
335.
Qadan Khān, or Qadr Khān, son of
Sulān Maḥmūd Khiljī of Mālwa,
399 n 1.
Qadar Khān, King of Turkistān,
159 n.
Qādir Khān, the son of Maḥmūd Khān
of Kālpī, one of the Amīrs of the
Fīroz Shāhī and Saiyyid dynasties,
375, 386.
Qādir bi-llāhi Abu-l-‘Abbās, Aḥmad
ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Muqtadir, Khalīfah
of the House of ‘Abbās, 17 and
n 2, 29 and n 2.
Qādirī, the Persian poet, 485.
Qadr Khān, son of Sulān Jalālu-d-
Dīn Khiljī, 231, 244, 247 n and
n 5.
Qadr Khān, son of Sulān Maḥmūd
Khiljī of Mālwa, 399 and n 1.
Qadr Khān, Malik Pindār Khiljī, the
ruler of Lakhnautī, one of the
Amīrs of Sulān Muḥammad Tugh-
laq Shāh, 302, 308.
Qāf, Koh-i-, a fabulous mountain
round the world, 485.
Qāfiyah, the rhyme, a term of Pro-
sody, 141 n 3, 607 and n 3.
Qā'im, Al-—, the promised Mahdī,
571 n 2.
Qairawān, the ancient Cyrene, in the
province of Tunis, 167 and n 4.
Qaiṣar or Cæsar, 145 and n 2.
Qaizurān, probably al-Khaizurān, a
cemetery at Baghdād, 59 n 1.
Qalandars, a sect of derveshes, 234,
235.
Qālij Khān, son-in-law of Changīz
Khān, 230.
Qālīj, a sword in Turkī, 230 and n 4.
Qalj, modification of the word qālīj
(q. v.), 230 and n 4.
Qamaru-d-Dīn Qirān-i-Tīmūr Khān,
one of the Maliks of the Shamsīyah
dynasty of Dihlī, 125 n 4.
Qambar Dīwāna, one of the Amīrs of
Humāyūn, 597, 598, 599, 600.
Qamurgha, a hunting ground in Turkī,
258 n 5.
Qāmūs, the Arabic Dictionary of
Fīrūzābādī, 176 n 1, 182 n 4.
Qanaj. Same as the town of Qanauj
(q. v.).
Qanauj or Qanaj, the Hindū capital
of Northern India, 23 and nn 2
and 4, 24, 25 n 4, 70, 114 n 2, 125,
312, 329 n 2, 346, 347, 348, 360,
361, 362, 363, 364, 404 and n 5,
409, 413, 431 and n 4, 434, 443,
444, 452, 463, 472, 540, 568 n 6.
See Qannauj.
Qanauj, river of, 463.
Qanauj, Sarkār of, 410 n 4, 538.
Qandahar, 16 n 3, 17, 453, 455, 456,
462, 466, 560, 567 and n 9, 568,
569, 573 and n 1, 574, 575, 578,
588 and n 6, 590, 591.
Qannauj. See under Qanauj.
Qānūn, a Geographical work, 14 n 3,
17 n 4.
Qānūn fi--Ṭibb, a work on medi-
cine by the celebrated Ibn Sīnā
(Avicenna), 533 and n 1.
Qarābeg, one of the Amīrs of Mubārak
Shāh of the Saiyyid dynasty of
Dihlī, 285, 290.
Qarācha Beg, the Governor of Qan-
dahār, contemporary of Humāyūn,
560 and n 2. See also under
Qurācha Khān and Qarrācha Khān.
Qarācha Khān, 560 n 2. Same as the
above (q. v.).
Qarāchal, another name of the moun-
tain of Himāchal (q. v.), 307 and
n 4. See also the next.
Qarājal, the mountain of, 307 n 3,
308 n 1. See the above.
Qarā Khiā (Cathay), 71 n 7, 103
n 3.
Qarāmiah, heretical sect of the, 22
n 3.
Qarāqash, Malik, one of the Amīrs
of the Shamsīyah dynasty, 123.
Qarā Qūrchī, one of the Amīrs of
Bābar, 441.
Qarghan, Nāib of the King of Khurā-
sān, contemporay of Sulān Muḥam-
mad Tughlaq Shāh, 320.
Qarn, an uncertain period of time,
442 and n 1.
Qarrācha Khān, contemporary of
Humāyūn, 586. See under Qarācha
Beg and Qurācha Khān.
Qārūn, the Korah of the Scriptures,
249.
Qāshān, a district and town of Persian
‘Irāq, 30 n 1.
Qaṣīdah, a form of poem, 608 and
n 3.
Qāsim Ḥusain Sulān Usbeg, one of
the Amīrs of Humāyūn, 463.
Qāsim Kāhī, Maulānā, otherwise
known as Mīyān Kālī Kābulī, one
of the poets of the time of Humā-
yūn, 517, 584 and nn 1 and 3,
601.
Qāsim Sanbalī, Malik, one of the
Amīrs of the Lodī dynasty of Dihlī,
431 n 4, 443.
Qaṣr Bāgh, a palace in Dihlī, 126 n 3.
Qaṣr-i-Safed, a palace in Dihlī, 82
n 2, 183.
Qassī, called also aqīf, founder of
the Arab tribe of aqīf, 12 n 1.
Qaarāt-i-Naisān, converted into
pearls, 108 n 4.
Qaẓdār, an Amīr of the Ghaznavide
dynasty, 48 and nn 3 and 4.
Qāẓī, an officer of justice under the
Ṣadr, 610 n.
Qāẓī-i-Charkh, the planet Jupiter,
368 and n 3.
Qāẓī of the heavens, the planet
Jupiter, 368 and n 3.
Qāẓī of Nīshāpūr satirised, 633.
Qāẓī ‘Ābid, one of the poets of the
reign of Sulān Fīrūz Shāh Tughlaq,
341 and n 2.
Qāẓī Aīr, contemporary of Sulān
Ghiyāu-d-Dīn Balban, 217.
Qāẓī Baiẓāwī, author of the Anwāru-t-
Tanzīl and the Niāmu-t-Tawārīkh,
6 and n 4, 34, 45, 52, 62, 63. See
also under Baiẓāwī.
Qāẓī Ḥamīd of Balkh, a celebrated
writer and poet, 76 and n 1.
Qāẓī Khān, Ẓiāu-d-Dīn, a court officer
of Sulān Mubārak Shāh of the
Saiyyid dynasty, 288, 289, 290.
Qāẓī Mughī of Hānsī, one of the poets
of the reign of Sulān Jalālu-d-Dīn
Khiljī, 245.
Qāẓī Urdū, of Sulān Jalālu-d-Dīn
Khiljī, 234.
Qazwīnī, author of the Āāru-l-Bilād
and the ‘Ajā'ibu-l-Makhlūqāt, 27
n 4, 28 n, 79 n 2, 178 n 4.
Qiblah, the direction in which Mus-
lims turn in prayer, 368 n 1, 613 n.
Qidāḥ, arrows used for gambling,
369 n 1.
Qidam, explanation of the term,
1 n 4, 153 n 7.
Qīrān, Malik,—or