Zābul, a name for the town of
Ghaznīn, 16 and n 3.
Zabūl, the second degree of the fever
called diqq, 319 n 4, 320 n.
Zābul, grandfather of Rustam, the
famous hero of ancient Irān, 14 n 3.
Zābulī, a name of Sulān Maḥmūd of
Ghaznīn, 17.
Zābulistān, 14 n 3, 51.
afar Khān, one of the Maliks of
Sulān Fīroz Shāh, 337 n 2.
afar Khān, Governor of Gujrāt
under Sulān Fīroz Shāh Tughlaq,
333 and n 11, 334.
afar Khān ‘Alāī, 311. See afar
Khān Badru-d-Dīn.
afar Khān Badru-d-Dīn, called afar
Khān ‘Alāī, one of the Maliks of
Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 247 and
n 2, 250 and n 5, 254, 258, 261, 311.
afar Khān Malik Dīnār Ḥaramī, one
of the Amīrs of Sulān Qubu-d-
Dīn Khiljī, 283, 284, 285.
afar Khān Fārsī, one of the Maliks
of Sulān Fīroz Shāh Tughlaq, 336
n 5.
afar Khān, son of Sulān Ghiyāu-d-
Dīn Tughlaq Shāh, 297.
afar Khān Hizabru-d-Dīn, one of
the Maliks of Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn
Khiljī, 247 n 2.
afar Khān Khiljī, brother of Sulān
‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 239.
afar Khān ibn Wajīhu-l-Mulk,
Governor of Gujrāt, one of the
Maliks of the Fīrūz Shāhī dynasty,
346, 354 n 8, 361, 364.
afarābād, town of, 299, 312, 328.
afar-Nāma of Yazdī, an historical
work, 347 n 3, 358 n 6.
Zaffur Khān Farsy. See afar Khān
Fārsī.
Zahāb, water oozing from the ground,
459 n 5.
aḥḥāk ibn ‘Ulwān, one of the three
chief lords of Shaddād ibn ‘Ād
(q. v.), 262 n.
ahīr, nom-de-plume of ahīru-d-Dīn
Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad the Poet,
339 and n 4.
ahīr Dihlavī, Qāẓī, one of the poets
of the reign of Sulān Maḥmūd of
the Fīrūz Shāhī dynasty, 367 and
n 2, 375.
ahīru-d-Dīn Bābar Pādishāh, 435,
436. See under Bābar.
ahīru-d-Dīn Lāhorī, Malik, one of
the Amīrs of Sulān Fīroz Shāh
Tughlaq, 338.
ahīru-d-Dīn Muḥammad Shāh Bābar,
436, 443. See under Bābar.
ahīru-d-Dīn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad
Fāryābī, a celebrated poet, con-
temporary of Khāqānī, 339 and
n 4.
ahīru-l-Juyūsh, Inspector of the
forces, 302.
Zaid ibn ‘Alī, one of the Imāms of
the Shī‘ah, 604 n 5.
Zain Khāfī, Shaikh, a learned man of
the time of Bābar and Humāyūn,
448 and n 3, 609 and n 5, 610, 617,
618.
Zain Khān Niyāzī, one of the Amīrs
of Shīr Shāh Sūr, 491.
Zain Khānī, Shaikh, a learned man
of the time of Bābar, 448 and n 3.
See Zain Khāfī.
Zainu-d-Dīn, author of a commentary
on the Mubaiyyin, 450 and n 8.
Zainu-d-Dīn Khāfī, Khwāja, a famous
saint, 609 n 5.
Zainu-d-Dīn Khāfī, Shaikh, one of
the learned men and poets of the
time of Bābar and Humāyūn, 609
and n 5, 610, 617, 618.
Zainu-d-Dīn Maḥmūd Kamāngar,
Maulānā, one of the Naqshbandī
Shaikhs, contemporary of Humāyūn,
588 and n 4.
Zainu-l-‘Ābidīn bin Najīm, author of
al-Ashbāh wa-n-Naāir, 5 n 4.
Zāirgah, sortilege by, 412 n 1.
Zakāt or almsgiving, one of the five
foundations of practical religion,
175 n 4.
akhīratu-l-Qawānīn, an historical
work, 9 n 2.
Zakhma, the plectrum with which the
chang was played, 146 n 1.
Zāl, father of Rustam, one of the
heroes of the Shāh-Nāma, 178 n 2.
Zāl, the son of Afrāsyāb, king of
Tūrān, 410.
Zamakhsharī, the celebrated author
of the Kashshāf, a commentary on
the Qur'ān, 28 n 1.
Zamīndāwar, country of, 591.
Zandkhān, a fortified town near
Sarakhs, 43 n 3.
Zang, a cluster of globular bells car-
ried by dāk-runners, 621 n 2.
Zang-bastan, to acquire importance,
621 n 2.
Zangbār, Shāh of,—the Moon, 621.
Zangī, Abū Manūr, brother of Abu-
l-Faẓl of Bust, contemporary of
Sulān Maudūd Ghaznawī, 47 and
n 7.
Zangī, Sulān Mu‘izzu-d-Dīn Muḥam-
mad Sām Ghūrī, 65 n 2.
Zanzibār,—the Night, 621.
Zanzibār, Sulān of, adopts Saiyyid
as his regal title, 303 n 4.
Zaradrus, the river Sutlej, 23 n 3.
Ẓarb, in Prosody, the last foot of the
second hemistich, 606 n 4.
Zard choba, turmeric, 173 n 2.
arīf, Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥasan of
Iṣfahān, the Poet, 582 n.
Zarīr, a herb used in dyeing clothes,
173 and n 2.
Zebā, mother of Sulān Sikandar ibn
Sulān Buhlūl Lodī, 412 n 2.
Zend, of the Zoroastrians, 394
n 5.
Ẓiā Barnī. See under Ẓiāu-d-Dīn
Barnī.
Ẓiā-i-Barnī. See under Ẓiāu-d-Dīn
Barnī.
Ẓiāī, the Persian poet, contemporary
and panegyrist of Sulān Malik
Shāh Saljūqī, 38 and n 4.
Ẓiāu-d-Dīn, a court-servant of Sulān
Jalālu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 239.
Ẓiāu-d-Dīn Baranī,—or
Ẓiāu-d-Dīn Barnī, author of the
Tārīkh-i-Fīrūz Shāhī, 184 n 1,
186 n 3, 188 nn 1, 4 and 5, 219 n 3,
220 n 2, 221 n 1, 227 n 7, 230 n 1,
247 n and nn 2 and 4, 248 nn 2, 6
and 8, 310 n 1, 311 n 5, 312 n 7, 314
n 2, 315 n 7, 316 n 6, 320 n 5.
Ẓiāu-d-Dīn Khajandī al-Fārsī, the
Poet Ẓiāī, 38 n 4. See under
Ẓiāī.
Ẓiāu-d-Dīn Qāẓī Khān, one of the
Amīrs of Sulān Qubu-d-Dīn Khil-
jī, 288, 289, 290.
Ẓiāu-d-Dīn Tukilī,—or
Ẓiāu-d-Dīn Tūlakī, Malik, one of the
Amīrs of the Ghorī dynasty, 69 and
n 3.
Ẓiāu-l-Mulk Shamsu-d-Dīn Abū Rijā,
one of the Maliks of Sulān Fīroz
Shāh Tughlaq, 329 and n 13,
331.
Ẕikr, a religious ceremony, 510 and
n 4.
Zinjānī, Shaikh Ḥasan, a famous
saint of Lāhor, 383 and n 6.
Zīrak, a name of ‘Uārid (the planet
Mercury), 630 and n 3.
Zīrak Khān, the Amīr of Sāmāna, one
of the Maliks of the Saiyyid dy-
nasty, 378, 379, 382, 384, 391, 396.
Zīrqān, name of a place in Khurāsān,
43 and n 3.
Zodiac, signs of the, 75 n 2, 76.
Zorāwar Singh, Rāo, also known as
Rāpar Sen, founder of the old city
of Rāparī, 377 n 5.
Ẕū-baḥrain, in prosody a line of two
metres, 245 n 2.
Zubaidah Khātūn, wife of Hārūnu-r-
Rashīd, 286, 287.
Zuhrah, the planet Venus, 138 n 3.
Ẕu-l-Faqār,—or