[The figures in italics under each Assembly of Harîri denote the page where
each assembly and the notes thereon begin; the other figures denote the references
to each.]
Assembly the 1st.—i. 37, 108, 278, 294, 302, 328, 385, 387; ii. 211
Assembly the 2nd.—i. 106, 112, 274, 285, 303, 304, 319, 338, 356, 357, 384,
448, 453; ii. 217
Assembly the 3rd.—i. 55, 75, 97, 117, 229, 295, 300, 310, 344, 381
Assembly the 4th.—i. 121, 302, 328, 331, 365, 394, 417, 463, 473
Assembly the 5th.—i. 55, 126, 300, 304, 308, 322, 398, 417, 500; ii. 220
Assembly the 6th.—i. 75, 132, 274, 321, 349, 396, 414, 416, 446, 524
Assembly the 7th.—i. 139, 328, 334, 339, 417, 509; ii. 258
Assembly the 8th.—i. 75, 79, 145, 336, 347; ii. 71, 113
Assembly the 9th.—i. 151, 344, 436; ii. 141
Assembly the 10th.—i. 158, 336, 339, 351, 381, 393, 409, 456, 465, 532, 537
Assembly the 11th.—i. 163, 364, 375, 429, 490; ii. 254
Assembly the 12th.—i. 80, 168, 289, 353, 368, 420, 435, 538; ii. 281
Assembly the 13th.—i. 176, 296, 299, 355, 380, 391, 396, 477; ii. 225
Assembly the 14th.—i. 181, 391, 465; ii. 289
Assembly the 15th.—i. 185, 398, 407, 419, 434, 449; ii. 269
Assembly the 16th.—i. 194, 274, 308, 408, 410, 422, 456, 463, 480, 483
Assembly the 17th.—i. 41, 200, 274, 288, 322, 402, 419, 442
Assembly the 18th.—i. 206, 371, 414, 417, 427, 441, 464; ii. 255
Assembly the 19th.—i. 214, 287, 320, 324, 408, 443, 450, 456, 527; ii. 256
Assembly the 20th.—i. 36, 220, 452, 460, 464
Assembly the 21st.—i. 223, 455;ii. 275, 297
Assembly the 22nd.—i. 11, 229, 383, 409, 469; ii. 239
Assembly the 23rd.—i. 234, 274, 340, 480, 486, 500
Assembly the 24th.—i. ix., 72, 243, 274, 493, 497, 499: ii. 221
Assembly the 25th.—i. 106, 253, 274, 514
Assembly the 26th.—i. 75, 258, 274, 348, 363, 449, 460, 488, 524, 537;
ii. 237
Assembly the 27th.—i. 277, 417, 441, 539; ii. 1, 187, 206, 246
Assembly the 28th.—i. 75, 274, 526; ii. 8, 15, 191, 194, 197
Assembly the 29th.—i. 75, 79, 274, 290, 434, 526; ii. 14, 71, 113, 194,
261
Assembly the 30th.—i. 76, 215, 287; ii. 24, 198, 200, 296
Assembly the 31st.—i. 76, 416; ii. 31, 201
Assembly the 32nd.—i. 34, 77, 79, 81, 82, 274, 284, 305, 319, 402, 455, 489;
ii. 37, 38, 132, 204
Assembly the 33rd.—i. 78, 291, 294, 382; ii. 50, 58, 208
Assembly the 34th.—i. 78, 318, 383, 472; ii. 62, 211, 273
Assembly the 35th.—i. 71, 79, 460; ii. 71, 113, 217
Assembly the 36th.—i. 73, 79, 81, 490, 514, 525; ii. 74, 113, 219, 239, 302
Assembly the 37th.—i. 72, 79, 280, 311, 318, 332, 383, 418, 525, 537; ii.
83, 224, 233
Assembly the 38th.—i. 79, 390, 431, 531; ii. 89, 234, 235, 244, 263
Assembly the 39th.—i. 80, 412, 418, 495; ii. 93, 238
Assembly the 40th.—i. 80, 82, 152, 347, 484; ii. 101, 102, 141, 142, 243,
290, 298, 306
Assembly the 41st.—i. 81, 336, 368, 399; ii. 108, 109, 251, 253
Assembly the 42nd.—i. 81, 341; ii. 113, 255
Assembly the 43rd.—i. 81, 310, 312, 370; ii. 119, 260, 263, 266
Assembly the 44th.—i. 81, 299, 303, 402, 485, 522, 527; ii. 132, 273, 277,
278
Assembly the 45th.—i. 36, 82, 348, 391, 460; ii. 141, 142, 279
Assembly the 46th.—i. 82, 274, 311, 321, 368, 471, 500, 524, 525; ii. 146,
267, 284, 289, 305
Assembly the 47th.—i. 37, 38, 83, 272, 321, 479; ii. 156, 290
Assembly the 48th.—i. 21, 24, 37, 83, 108; ii. 163, 175, 214, 245, 295
Assembly the 49th.—i. 37, 83, 287, 288, 332, 382, 402, 406, 537; ii. 169,
299
Assembly the 50th.—i. 6, 7, 9, 37, 83, 296, 382, 431; ii. 175, 305
Assyrians, ii. 240
Astronomy, i. 100
Aswad [Al], son of Munthir, King of Hira, i. 377, 496
Aswad [Al], the rival prophet slain at the time of Mohammed’s death,
i. 279
Athenian, i. 6
Athens, i. 88
Atlas, Mount, i. 344
A‘yâṣ, The five, of the tribe of Koraysh. These were five sons of ‘Abd
Shems, who had all similar names, i. 376
‘Âyisheh, third wife of the Prophet, i. 14, 93, 308, 337, 329, 353, 355, 364,
383, 390, 401, 418, 430, 473; ii. 293
‘Ayn ibn Ḍobay‘, father of Nawâr, wife of the poet Farazdaḳ, i. 350
Âzar, father of Abraham, i. 467
Azâriḳah, a fanatical sect, implacable enemies of the House of Omayyah,
or the Omayyides, i. 326, 327
Azd, an Arab ancestor, i. 423. See Benû Azd
Azerbijan, the north-west province of the present Persian monarchy, i. 132
Azz ad Din al Muḳaddasi, a writer of moral allegories, edited by Garcin
de Tassy, i. 277
Babylon, i. 209, 325, 434
Bacchanalian, i. 35, 168
Badî‘ az Zemân, or “The Wonder of the Time,” a title give to Hamadâni,
i. 20, 26, 27, 105, 106, 186, 270–272, 278, 315, 455. See Hamadâni [Al]
Bagdad, i. 5, 6, 18, 26–29, etc. See Appendix A
Baghîḍ, an Arab tribe, i. 316
Bâhileh, one of the least esteemed of Arab tribes, i. 309, 520, 521
Bahman, a Persian Prince, i. 287
Baḥrayn, i. 10, 361, 446, 452
Bajazet i., the Ottoman Sultan, i. 489
Bajîleh, Tribe of, i. 353
Baki, a Turkish poet, i. vi.
Bâḳil, a man of Rabî‘ah or of Iyâd, who had an impediment in his speech,
and is alluded to in the proverb as “more tongue-tied than Bâḳil,
i. 197, 263, 417, 537
Balaam, i. 44
Baldwin, one of the Crusaders, i. 13, 20, 489
Baqî‘, the cemetery of Medina, ii. 50
Barâjim, a tribe, i. 361
Barâḳish, wife of Loḳmân ibn ‘Âd, i. 516
Barka‘îd, a place described as the chief town of the Diyâr Rabî‘ah, and
near Mowsil, i. 139, 140, 329
Barrah, a celebrated woman’s name among the Arabs; one sister of
Temîm, another ancestress of Ḳoraysh, i. 318; ii. 225
Barrah, mother of the boy Zayd, i. 130, 132, 318; ii. 220
Basîṭ, an Arabic metre, i. 55, 56, 524
Basra X., i. 1, 3, 6–11, 13, 18, etc. See Appendix A
Basrian, The, i. 90, 315
Basrians, The, i. 72, 503, 505
Basûs [Al], an Arab woman, i. 527, 528
Basûs, an Israelitish woman, i. 530
Basûs, War of, i. 74, 260, 317, 382, 449, 526, 527, 530; ii. 277
Bathîleh, or Sulayma, wife of the warrior Sakhr, the brother of Khansâ,
the poetess, i. 388, 389
Batîḥah, Swamps of the, ii. 15, 22
Bâtir, an ancestor, i. 369
Baṭn Marr, in the territory of Mecca, i. 288
Battle of the Camel, ii. 293. See Mirkhond, Part ii., vol. iii., p. 212
Bawwân, The valley or pass of, i. 368
Bayḍâ, near Shiraz, and the birthplace of Sibawayh, the Grammarian, i. 498
Bayḍâwi, the Commentator on the Koran, i, 31, 39, 96, 97, 267–269, etc.
See Appendix A
Beautis of the I‘râb, or desinential syntax, a treatise on Grammar by
Ḥarîri, i. 12
Becca, another pronunciation of Mecca, i. 391
Bedouin, i. 4, 64; ii. 1
Bedr, Battle of, i. 31, 324, 438, 440
Beggary or Begging, ii. 83, 85, 229
Beggary, Shame of, i. 280, 311
Bekr ibn Wâ‘il, an Arab ancestor and tribe, i. 352, 359, 515, 527
Belḳayn, a contraction of Benû’l Kayn, i. 340
Benjamin, youngest son of Jacob, i. 398, 417
Benû ‘Abs, an Arab tribe, i, 130, 316, 317
Benû ‘Âmir ibn Ṣa‘ṣa‘ah, i. 375
Benû Asad, i. 64, 340, 348, 357, 386, 388, 401, 408, 491
Benû Aṣfar, ii. 48, 207
Benû Azd, i. 353, 425, 426
Benû Bekr, i. 10, 455, 527, 529, 530
Benû Ḍabbah, i. 428
Benû Fezârah, i. 375, 376, 396, 491
Benû Ghassân, i. 64, 133, 138, 154, 248, 288, 289, 295, 327, 377, 496
Benû Ghaṭafân, i. 64, 316, 318, 387, 401, 405, 411, 428, 476
Benû Ḥarâm, i. 10, 21, 24; ii. 163, 164, 175
Benû Ḥarb, ii. 38
Benû Hilâl ibn ‘Âmir, i. 375, 376; ii. 246
Benû Hothayl, i. 64
Benû Iyâd, or Iyyâd, i. 64, 417, 538
Benû Ja‘far, i. 502
Benû Jothâm, i. 64
Benû Kand, ii. 272
Benû Khozâ‘ah, i. 64, 426, 434
Benû Kinâneh, i. 64, 434
Benû Ḳoḍâ‘ah, i. 64, 495
Benû Ḳoraysh, the most distinguished of the Arab tribes, i. 8, 16, 30, etc.
See Appendix A
Benû Lakham, i. 64
Benû ’l Ḥârith ibn Ka‘b, i. 428, 498, 537, 538
Benû Mâ ’as-samâ, ii. 199
Benû Mâzin, i, 497
Benû Murrah, i. 387
Benû Nomayr, i. 207; their descent, i. 427, 428
Benû ‘Oḳayl, i. 467
Benû Omayyeh, Mosque of the, i. 369; the tribe, i. 406
Benû Rabî‘ah, i. 64, 352
Benû Sa‘d ibn Thobyân, i. 351
Benû Salamân, i. 353
Benû Salîh, i. 288, 289
Benû Sa‘ṣa‘ah, i. 428
Benû Shaibah, ii. 38, 204
Benû Shaybân, a branch of the Benû Bekr, i. 529
Benû Sulaym, i. 387–389
Benû Taghlib, i. 10, 376, 448, 527, 529, 530
Benû Ṭay, i. 292, 348, 426, 491
Benû Temîm, a distinguished Arab tribe, i. 10, 31, 38, 64, 94, 273, 349,
352, 361, 430, 434–436, 453, 497, 527; ii. 83, 214, 225, 231
Benû Thaḳîf, i. 64, 405
Benû ‘Uzrah, ii. 114, 255, 280
Benû Yarbû‘, i. 518
Beyrout, i. 41, 98, 367; ii. 197, 198, 226, 241, 244, 263, 268, 280
Bible, The, i. 45–47, 85, 97, 316, 407; ii. 206
Biblical, i. 88
Bidpai, Fables of, i. 33
Bilḳîs, Queen of Sheba, i. 80, 283, 425; ii. 104, 245
Black Sea, ii. 252
Bohemian, ii. 1
Boḥtori [Al], the Poet, 14, 292, 294, 418, 482, 487. See Abû ‘Obâdeh
Bokhari [Al], the Traditionist, i. 268, 316, 365, 393
Borâk, the name of the animal on which Mohammed made the reputed
night journey to heaven, ii. 253
Bosphorus, The, i. 4
Boulak, i. 300, 315, 508; ii. 241
Bunduqah, the name of a tribe, or a pellet, ii. 104, 249, 250
Bûrân, probably the wife of Mâmun, the seventh Abbaside Khalif, i. 80;
ii. 104, 246
Burdeh, The, or Poem of the mantle, by Ka‘b ibn Zohayr, i. 397, 501
Burjân, People of [the Danubian Bulgars], i. 466
Burkhardt’s “Travels in Arabia,” ii. 202
Burton, Sir Richard, the Traveller and Orientalist, ii. xi, 202
Butter-bags, Story of the woman of the two, ii. 157, 291
Buzurjmihr, minister of Nushirvân, King of Persia, ii. 303
Byzantine, i. 90, 381, 539
Byzantines, The, i. 22, 92, 391
Cabul, i. 467
Cæsar, name applied to Roman Emperors, i. 451, 491, 532
Cain, i, 43, 296, 340, 531, 538
Cairo, i. 25, 41; ii. 24, 25, 30, 306
Calcutta, i. 39, 99, 316, 481
Calendar, Arabian, i. 391
Callirhoe, or Antiochea, a very ancient city, so called under the Seleucidæ,
afterwards named Edessa and Roha, i. 489
Cambridge, i. 101
Canaan, Land of, i. 44, 87
Canaan, or Yâm, the son of Noah who refused to enter the ark,
i. 466
Canaan, the father of Nimrod, i. 369
Canticles, The, or Song of Solomon, i. 348, 425
Capella of the Pleiades, ii. 237
“Cassandra,” or “Alexandra,” of Lycophron, an iambic poem of 1470
lines, very famous in antiquity, i. 91
Caucasus, The, ii. 208
Cave, The men of the, or the seven sleepers alluded to in the Koran, i. 196,
414–416, 450
Cave, The, name of the 18th Sura, or chapter, of the Koran, i. 414, 416;
ii. 231
“Chalef elahmar’s Qasside,” edited by W. Ahlwardt, of Greifswald, i. 340
Charlemagne, i. 539
Chenery, Thomas, translator of the first twenty-six Assemblies of Harîri,
ii. vii–xi, 31, 37, 89, 113, 146, 147, 214, 217, 218, 229, 239, 242, 246,
248, 269, 275, 277, 281, 289, 292, 298
Cherithim (see Ezekiel xxv. 16), i. 87
Chess, ii. 241
“Chiliads,” The, a work by John Tzetzes, i. 539, 540
China, ii. 310
Chinese, i. 344, 466
Chosroes, a title given to certain Persian kings, i. 31, 218, 451, 539; ii. 219
“Chrestomathie Arabe,” by De Sacy, i. 101, 139, 151, 270, 271, etc. See
Appendix A
Christ, i. 88, 425, 530
Christendom, i. 1
Christian, i. 3, 13, 32, 38, 45, 98, 267, 269, 350, 370, 385, 397, 414, 465,
489, 500; ii. 270, 271
Christianity, i. 289, 385, 537
Christians, i. 34, 46, 164, 322, 347, 421, 439, 442; ii. 113, 152, 256
Cities of the Plain, or the subverted cities, i.e., Sodom and Gomorrah,
i. 431
Colocynth, i. 461, 462
Commentaries, i. 67, 70; ii. 199
Commentary, i. 77, 92 note, 101, 356, 362, 382, 390, 391, 394, 429, 436,
442, 446, 449, 495, 529, 531; ii. 1, 75, 187, 189, 243, 273, 274, 278, 296
Commentary of Bayâwi on the Koran, i. 96, 269, 312, 325, 404, 407, 432,
433; ii. 270
Commentary of De Sacy on Harîri’s Assemblies, i. 98, 269, 312, 318, 347,
370, 375, 381, 382, 385, 414, 420, 441, 444, 451, 456, 479, 482, 483,
487, 488, 495, 500, 518, 520, 525, 537; ii. 193, 195, 201, 205, 207, 225,
251, 256, 266, 276, 303, 305
Commentary of Harîri, ii. 189, 191, 219, 244, 273, 274, 277, 278
Commentary of Ibn ‘Aḳîl on Ibn Mâlik, i. 99
Commentary of Sa‘d at Taftazâni, i. 99
Commentary of Sherîshi, i. 308, 322, 350, 353, 356, 438, 451, 467, 483, 520;
ii. 217, 259
Commentary of Tabrîzi, ii. 212
Commentary of Zamakshari on the Koran, i. 39, 97
Commentary on the Arab Proverbs, i. 362, 363, 385, 390
Commentary on the Mo‘allaḳah of ‘Amr ibn Kulthûm, i. 539
Commentary on the Mo‘allaḳah of Imr al Ḳays, i. 386
Commentary on the Mo‘allaḳah of Ṭarafeh, i. 407
Commentator, i. 39, 96, 265, 266, 294, 340, 357, 368, 413, 415, 420, 429,
444, 446, 471, 573, 504; ii. 299
Commentators, i. 39, 63, 70, 73, 90, 145, 329, 345, 414, 451; ii. 187, 202,
203, 206, 208, 209, 211, 213, 215, 218, 227, 236, 238, 240, 256, 258, 261,
265, 266, 276, 282, 290, 293, 300, 307, 309
Companions of the Prophet, i. 6, 14, 104, 401; ii. 28, 198, 200, 247, 265,
298
Composer, i. 231, 232
Composition, i. 230, 232, 234, 265, 273, 274, 297, 359, 382; ii. 156, 217, 251
Compositions, ii. 197
Confession or Shahâdeh of the Moslem faith, “There is no God but God,
and Mohammed is the Apostle of God,” i. 392
Constantine, the Emperor, i. 289
Constantinople, i. 88, 90, 91, 320, 397, 491
Conundrums, i. 79, 81, 84, 274
Corinthians, Epistle to the, i. 279
Criticism, i. 47
Crusade, i. 3, 20, 347, 489; ii. 163
Crusaders, i. 13, 38
Ḍabbah, or Ḍabbat, son of Udd, son of Ṭâbikhah, son of Elyas, son of
Moḍar, i. 428. The story about him, and how his name became connected
with a proverb, i. 474, 475
Dachtenûs, wife of ‘Amr ibn ‘Odas, i. 74
Dâḥis, the name of a horse which caused the war of Dâhis, i. 316, 317
Dailamites, name of a people in Gîlân, ii. 137
Daj‘am, House of the, the reigning family of the Benû Salîh, i. 289
Damascus, i. 16, 57, 168, 206, 207, 368, 369, 437, 489
Damietta, i. 121
Damon, the Pythagorean, celebrated for his friendship with Pythias, i. 385
Damrah, son of Damrah, the judge in a munâfarah, who is said to have
taken a bribe, i. 375
Daniel, Book of, i. 88, 380
Dârâ, or Darius, the Persian King, ii. 13
Dardanus, the mythical ancestor of the Trojans, i. 92
David, the King, i. 33, 44, 46 209, 267, 269, 291, 292, 422, 436, 453, 476;
ii. 217, 222
Daylam, a region of which Rayy was the seat of government, i. 455.
See Rayy
Death, i. 150, 163, 165, 166, 224, 461, 488; ii. 4, 8, 10, 13, 23, 34, 180, 185,
229, 252, 310
Deborah, Song of, i. 44
Decius, the Emperor, i. 414
Dedan, one a brother of Sheba, son of Raamah, and another a brother of
Sheba, grandson of Abraham, i. 426, 427
Denar and denars, i. 117, 119, 120, 141, 149, 158, 160, 210, 229, 233, 298,
300, 310, 470, 499; ii. 82, 163, 212, 265
Derenbourg, who, with Mr. Reinard, wrote the preface to the second
edition of De Sacy’s Harîri, i. 3 note
Deskereh, a place between Holwân and Bagdad, i. 257, 523
Deuteronomy, Book of, i. 44, 46, 516
Devil, The, i. 141, 378
Dictionary of Islam, by Hughes, ii. xi, 202, 205, 244, 245, 250, 306
Dieterici, editor of some Arabic poems, i. 300, 462
Dimeshḳ, son of Nimrod, son of Canaan, or, as others say, Dimeshḳ, son
of Bâtir, son of Mâlek, son of Arphaxad, son of Shem, son of Noah.
The Moslem legend is that Damascus received its name from its
founder, Dimeshḳ, i. 369
Ḍirâr [Aḍ], the angel of Paradise, i. 350
Dirhem and dirhems, i. 139, 142, 149, 156, 298, 309, 408, 417, 470; ii. 14,
18, 65, 70, 144, 161, 212, 219, 230, 272, 294, 295
Dîwân, or collection of poems of any one author, i. 394, 427, 446, 447, 453,
479, 485, 491, 492, 525, 539; ii. 304
Diyâr Rabî‘ah, a country between Syria and Irak, i. 10, 139, 206, 215
Do‘aymiṣ of the Sands, a negro slave, i. 403
Dobays the Asadî, son of Sayf ad Dowleh Ṣadaḳah, the Arab prince of
Ḥilleh, i. 38; ii. 100, 242
Dowsar, the name of a squadron of cavalry alluded to in a proverb, i. 436
Dozy Reinhardt, the eminent Dutch Orientalist, and author of several
works, i. 459
Duprat, Benjamin, Libraire de l’Institut, Paris, i. 459
Durayd, brother of Hâshim, son of Ḥarmalah: the story about him,
i. 387, 388
Durayd ibn Aṣ Ṣimmâh, a most celebrated hero and poet of his time, and
held by the Arabs to be equal to ‘Antarah: the story about him and
Khansâ, the poetess, i. 387, 390; ii. 282
‘Durrah,’ The, or ‘Durrat al Ghawwâs,’ a work by Harîri, i. 280, 283, 290,
296, 304, 318, 331, 345, 347, 348, 400, 401, 409, 413, 418, 419, 427, 497,
511, 513, 524, 525, 538; ii. 212, 220, 233
East, The, i. vi, 3, 5, 13, 27, 34, 59, 90, 98, 204, 206, 262, 277, 285, 317,
352, 370, 410, 473, 477; ii. 57, 171, 179, 265, 278, 286, 308
Eastern, i. 1, 21, 32, 89, 112, 411, 451
Ecclesiastes, i. 86, 89
Ecclesiastical, i. 6
Eden, i. 30, 56
Edessa, a city in Northern Mesopotamia, i. 13, 21, 488, 489. See Roha
Educational, i. 6, 12, 36
Egypt, i. 341, 398, 466, 471; ii. 25, 291, 306
Egyptian, ii. 62, 108, 213
Egyptians, i. 286, 341, 370, 392; ii. 240
Eirenopolis, the Byzantine name of Bagdad, i. 391
Elam, i. 87
Elephant, The men of the, viz., the soldiers of Abraheh, the Abyssinian,
i. 331
Elephant, Year of the, i. 279
Elif, a letter of the Arabic alphabet, and prefixed to certain chapters of the
Koran, i. 96
Elijah, i. 267
Emessa, or Ḥimṣ, i. 82, 337; ii. 146, 148, 284
Emperors of the East, i. 3
Endymion, i. 414
England, i. 534; ii. xi
English, i. viii, x, 1, 45, 281, 294, 377, 401, 412, 453, 462, 504, 505, 534;
ii. xi 74, 132, 147, 192, 218, 221, 225, 237, 251, 253, 254, 259, 263, 264,
266–268, 289
Englishman, i. 283, 400
Englishmen, i. 70; ii. 89
Enoch, i. 207
Ephesus, i. 414
Esau, i. 44
Euphrates, The, i. 9, 158, 168, 229, 374, 445; ii. 219
Euphuists, The, of the polished cities of Irak, i. 215
Europe, i. 47, 78, 92, 323, 473, 531, 539; ii. 37
European, i. ix., x., 46, 58, 59, 66, 98, 101, 112, 176, 243, 273, 275, 285,
373, 459, 504, 534, 535; ii. viii, 279
Europeans, i. 1, 83, 132, 270; ii. 192
Eve, i. 342, 398, 415
Ewald, G. H. A., a German Orientalist and critic, and author of “Dichter
des Alten Bundes” and “Ausführliches Lehrbuch des Hebräischen
Sprache,” i. 88 note, 514
Exodus, Book of, i. 44, 46, 87, 409, 425, 521
Ezekiel, the Prophet, i. 87, 88, 325, 446
Fables, i. 32, 33, 107, 277, 477, 478
Faḍl [Al] al Ḳasbâni, a Grammarian and teacher of Ḥarîri, i. 10
Fajandîhi [Al], or Fanjadîhi, an author mentioned in Sherîshi’s Commentary,
ii. 163
Falak [Al], the name of the 113th Sura, or chapter, of the Koran, i. 52, 452
Farazdaḳ [Al], the Poet, i. 157, 318, 349, 350, 406, 436, 458, 485, 523;
ii. 225, 248
Farḍ, an observance commanded by the Koran, or by the most weighty
Tradition, an obligatory duty, i. 329, 411, 412. See Nefl
Farghânah, name of a region and city of Transoxiana, now in the Khanate
of Kokan, i. 152, 344
Farhad, the Sculptor. His fatal love for Shîrîn is a favourite subject in
Persian poetry, ii. 245
“Fariac, La vie et les aventures de,” written in Arabic by Fâris ash
Shidyâḳ, which see, i. 458, 483
Farîd ad Dîn ‘Aṭṭâr, the Persian poet and mystic, i. 277
Faris ash Shidyâk, a Syrian author possessed of an extraordinary knowledge
of the Arab vocabulary, i. 367, 458, 459, 483
Farḳadân, The, two bright stars in the Little Bear, i. 143, 239, 336, 494
Fast and Fasting, ii. 37, 43–45, 206
Fate, the Father of Wonders, i. 129, 314
Father of various qualities and things, i. 218, 219, 274, 450, 451
Fâṭimeh, daughter of Mohammed, ii. 271
Fâṭimeh, daughter of Rabî‘ah, sister of Mohalhil, and mother of Imr al
Ḳays, the poet, i. 60, 448
Fayd, a place in the Nejd, halfway between Mecca and Bagdad, i. 130,
316
Finance, Minister of, his qualities and his duties, i. 232
Find, a freedman of ‘Âyishah bint Sa‘d, ii. 156; the story about him, ii. 291
Firâseh, an Arab term for (1) skill in judging of a horse; (2) art of
physiognomy; (3) discernment generally, i. 332
Firdousi, the great Persian poet, i. 5, 526, 539
Fire of war, and other traditional fires, i. 226, 463
Fire, People of the, i.e., the inhabitants of Hell, i. 213, 441; ii. 202, 296
Firûzâbâdi, the author of the “Kâmûs,” ii. 219
Flügel, the well-known German Orientalist, i. 266; ii. 208
Foḥûl ash Shu‘arâ, or “the Heroes of the Poets,” a collection of poetical
pieces like the “Hamâseh,” i. 57
Foḳaym, a family belonging to the Temîm tribe, i. 453
France, i. 534
Frankish, i. 100
Franklin, Dr., i. 316
Franks, i. 13, 21, 23, 489; ii. 163
French, i. 312, 458; ii. 196, 250
Freytag: his translation of Arab Proverbs into Latin in three volumes is
well known, a standard work often quoted in these two volumes,
i. 273, 277, 298, 324, 366, 367, 392, 397, 398, 403, 405, 430, 500; ii. xi,
278
Friday, ii. 191, 299
Fuḳahâ, or jurisconsults, i. 4
Funerals described in the “Kitâb al janâ’iz,” in the first volume of
Bokhâri, i. 365
Furât [Al], The sons of, i. 229; full details about them, i. 469–471. These
were four brothers, who became highly distinguished in the service of
several of the Abbaside Khalifs. The family generally were able
official administrators
Fuzail [Al], a celebrated devotee and ascetic, ii. 13, 194
Gabriel, the Angel, i. 31, 267, 268, 233, 416, 440, 445, 452, 474, 531; ii. 254
Galen [Jâlînûs], the physician, i. 473; ii. 193
Garden, People of the, i.e., the inhabitants of Paradise, i. 213; ii. 296
Genesis, Book of, i. 87, 312, 348, 380, 426
German, i. 2, 354; ii. 141, 147, 301
Germany, ii. 146
Gesenius, Frederick H. W., a distinguished German Orientalist, i. 336, 340,
354, 357, 368, 380
Ghabrâ, a mare, one of the causes of the war of Dâḥis, i. 317
Ghaḍa, a wood proverbial for making a powerful and lasting fire, i. 321,
360; ii. 158
Ghânah, a city of the Sûdân, i. 152, 344, 345
Ghassân, a lake, i. 288, 425
Ghassân ibn Wa‘leh, a poet, i. 435
Ghassân, Kings, princes, nobles, and race of, i. 113, 127, 130, 154, 286,
289, 295, 327, 362, 426, 519
Ghassân, Tharîd of, a highly-esteemed Arab food, i. 383
Ghassânide, i. 289
Ghaṭafân, an Arab ancestor and tribe, i. 411, 427. See Benû
Ghaṭafân
Ghaylân, or Ghailân, the poet, ii. 3, 189
Ghazal, or ode, one of the four kinds of Persian poetry, i. 62 note
Ghazzâli [Al], the lawyer, mystic, and philosopher. His works are very
numerous, and all very instructive, i. 392
Gholayyân, a camel stallion, i. 528
Ghomdân, The, a palace of Ṣan‘â, the most magnificent edifice in ancient
Arabia, i. 279, 280
Ghûl, and Ghûls, malignant demons, or goblins of a nature akin to the
Jinn, i. 4, 329, 330, 398; ii. 87
Ghûṭah, The. This is the fertile plain on which the city of Damascus is
situated. It means “a well-watered plain,” i, 169, 368
Gibbon, i. 391
Glass, i. 206–208, 211, 229, 434
Godfrey, the Crusader, i. 20, 489
Gold, i. 117, 229, 233, 264, 434, 481; ii. 55, 72, 75, 78, 92, 97, 107, 110,
138, 163, 175, 207, 212, 216, 237, 253, 260
Göttingen, i. 373
Grammar, i. v, 7, 10, 12, etc. See Appendix A
Grammarian, i. 8, 65, 312, 377, 498; ii. 245, 248, 306
Grammarians, i. 39, 72, 90, 98, 251, 275, 300, 395, 438, 502–506, 508, 514,
533; ii. 197, 214, 218, 304
Grammatical, i. vi, ix, 7, 12, 15, etc. See Appendix A
Granada, The Vega of, i. 368; the cold of, i. 515
Greece, i. 46
Greek, i. 1, 34, 64, 66, 84, 88, 90, 92, 279, 313, 345, 357, 405, 415, 492;
ii. 94, 229, 275
Greeks, i. 5, 69, 73, 82, 90, 320, 355, 381, 443; ii. 48, 146, 163, 168, 192,
207, 219, 305
Guadalquivir, The, i. 27
Guebres, or fire-worshippers, i. 322
Gulistan of Sa‘di, i. 5, 473; ii. 235
Ḥabîb ibn ‘Ows, i. 57; commonly known as Abû Temmâm, which see
Ḥabîb, the carpenter, i. 531
Hâbîl, i. 296. See Abel
Ḥadâ‘iḳ al Balagheh, or gardens of eloquence, a Persian treatise on rhetoric
and plagiarism, translated by Garcin de Tassy, Paris, 1844, i. 481
Hâdi [Al], the fourth Abbaside Khalif, i. 493
Ḥaḍramowt, a province of Arabia, i. 438, 441, 445; ii. 119, 122, 123, 256,
263, 264
Ḥafiz [Al] al Bendehi, the Imam, i. 24
Hafiz, the Persian poet, i. 451; ii. 217
Ḥajj, The, or Pilgrimage, i. 76, 391–393; ii. 31, 33, 34, 38, 46, 47, 117,
202, 204, 259, 280
Ḥajjaj [Al] ibn Yusûf, commonly called “The Tyrant,” i. 65, 94, 474, 520;
ii. 194, 247, 255
Hajji Khalfeh, a Turkish historian and geographer, but an Arabic encyclo-pædist
and bibliographer, i. 269; ii. x
Ḥakam [Al] ibn ‘Abd Yaghûth, the Manḳarî, the best archer of his time:
the story about him, i. 404
Ḥâkim Abû Sa‘îd, i. 270, 271. See Abû Sa‘îd
Ḥâkim [Al], the ninth Spanish Khalif, i. 34
Ḥalfeh, a nun, i. 350
Ham, one of the sons of Noah, i. 228, 466, 467; ii. 121, 260
Hamadân, a town and country, i. 18, 105, 364, 426, 514
Hamadâni [Al], poet, reciter, and author, the first person who composed
an Assembly, i. 13; his birth and death, i. 18; his Assemblies, i. 19,
20, 25, 27; other references to him, i. 28, 30, 35, 37, 38, 62, 105, 186,
207, 270, 272, 305. See Badî‘ az Zemân
Ḥamâseh, The, a collection of fragments from the warrior and other
poets of the pre-Islamitic period, compiled by Abû Temmâm, himself
a good poet of the third century of the Hijra [a.d. 816–913], i. 55, 57,
etc. See Appendix A
Hamazân, an Arab tribe, ii. 197
Ḥammâd ibn Selemeh, the Grammarian and instructor of Aṣma‘î and
Sîbawayh, i. 498
Ḥammâd, the great reciter, called Ar Rawiah, and famous for his great
knowledge of Arab poetry, etc., i. 17, 383, 384. See Abû ’l Ḳâsim
Ḥammâd
Hammer Purgstall, Baron Joseph von, German Orientalist, i. 320, 390,
399, 430
Ḥamzah al Isfahani, ii. 293
Hamzah, the ninth son of Abd al Muttalib, the grandfather of Mohammed,
and killed at Ohud, i. 401, 473; ii. 245
Hamzeh, The sign of, and its application, i. 533–536; ii. 153, 264
Haram ibn Koṭbah, the Fezâri, who was judge in the most celebrated
munâfarah of the Ignorance, i. 375, 488
Ḥarâmîyeh [Al], the name of the forty-eighth Assembly of Ḥarîri, but
said to be the first that was written, i. 21, 24, 37, 83, 108; ii. 163
Harb, an Arab tribe, ii. 38. See Benû Harb
Ḥarb and Murrah, the most hateful names to God, i. 278
Ḥarb, the grandfather of Mu‘âwiyeh, the first Omayyide Khalif, i. 439
Ḥarim ibn Sinân, a noble Arab of the Ignorance, i.e., before Islam, ii. 212
Ḥarîri [Al], the author of these Assemblies (his biography, i. 3–13; further
biography, i. 20–30, 32–40; explanation about the connection between
Harîri and Ḥârith, son of Hammâm, i. 278; his full name described,
i. 315). For the complete number of references to Ḥarîri see Appendix
A
Ḥarîri, Arabic text of his Assemblies, ii. iii, ix
Hâris [Al], ii. 224, read Al Ḥârith
Ḥârith ibn ‘Abbâd, the owner of the celebrated horse Ibnu ’n-na‘âmeh,
ii. 198
Hârith [Al], a name for the Devil, i. 378
Ḥârith [Al] ibn ‘Amr al Kindi, the legend about him, i. 299
Ḥârith [Al] ibn ‘Amr, King of Kinda, connected with a proverb, i. 356
Ḥârith ibn Ḥillizeh, a poet, and author of one of the seven Mo‘allakât,
i. 56, 61, 383
Ḥârith [Al] ibn Ka‘b: the story about him, i. 474, 475
Ḥârith [Al] ibn Sulayk, the Asadi, connected with a proverb, i. 408
Ḥârith [Al], the son of Hammâm, the Râwi or Reciter of Abû Zayd
throughout these Assemblies. Under the name of Al Ḥârith, son of
Hammâm, Ḥarîri is supposed to have signified himself, i. 278. For
the complete number of references to Hârith, see Appendix A
Ḥârith, the Ghassâni prince: the story about him, i. 492
Hârûn ar Reshîd, the fifth Abbaside Khalif, i. 18, 34, 72, 285, 319, 320,
351, 437, 455, 498, 499, 515; ii. 245, 279
Hârût and Mârût, i. 434. For the story about them compare Koran, ii.
96; Mirkhond, Part i., vol. i., and Bayḍâwi
Ḥasâ, a town, ii. 265
Ḥasan [Al], son of ‘Ali, the fourth Khalifah, ii. 229, 278, 288
Ḥasan [Al], Abû Sa’îd al Baṣri, proverbial for pulpit eloquence and a great
devotee, i. 81, 350, 467, 468; ii. 104, 165, 247, 298, 306
Hâshim, son of Harmalah, i. 387, 388
Hâshim, the ancestor of Mohammed, i. 269, 320, 332, 383, 520, 523
Ḥassân ibn Thâbit, a blind poet, and in favour of Mohammed, i. 429–431,
518, 519
Ḥassân ibn Tobba‘, King of Yemen, i. 381
Ḥaṭi’eh [Al], a poet, i. 482
Hatim Ṭay, a man famous for his generosity, i. 300, 471, 472; ii. 140, 278
Ḥayy ibn Yaḳzân, the Living, son of the Awakened, the hero in the philosophical
romance of Abû Ja‘far ibn Ṭofayl, i. 278, 467
Hebraists, i. 46
Hebrew, i. vi, 32, 43–48, etc. See Appendix A
Hell, i. 412, 439, 441, 460; ii. 192, 193, 253, 279
Heraclius, the Emperor, i. 289, 442
Herat, i. 18, 270, 272
Herodotus, i. 354, 404, 405
Heshbon, i. 87. See Jeremiah xlviii. 2
Hezej, an Arabic metre, i. 330, 349, 366
Hida‘ah may be the name of a tribe or a hawk, ii. 104, 249, 250
Hijâz, a district or province of Arabia, i. 9, 63, 288, 295, 350, 376, 406, 432,
516; ii. 290
Ḥijr [Al], the country between Hijâz and Syria, i. 432
Ḥijra, or Mohammedan era, i. 3, 7, 17, etc. See Appendix A
Ḥiḳf, a strip of sand on the sea-coast of Ash Shihr in Yemen, i. 441
Ḥilleh, a place, i. 38
Ḥimṣ, or Emessa, i. 82, 336; ii. 146, 148, 155, 284, 285
Ḥimṣi, one born at Hims, ii. 284
Ḥimyar, a place, and a tribe or race of early Arabs, i. 359, 382, 438, 448,
527
Ḥimyar, son of Saba, or ‘Abd Shems, i. 426
Ḥimyarite, i. 381
Ḥimyaritic, i. 426
Hind, a country, i. 467
Hind, mother of ‘Amr, King of Hira, i. 360, 361
Hindustani, i. 84
Hira, city of, i. 495, 519
Hira, Kings of, i. 10, 42, 74, 286, 289, 358, 377, 385; ii. 199
Hirr, mistress of Imr al Kays, the poet, i. 337
Hishâm, the tenth ‘Omayyide Khalif, i. 17, 320, 349, 350, 371, 383, 384
Hishâm ibn al Kelbi relates the story about the man of Johayneh, i. 475,
476
History, i. 63, 71, 98
Hitopodesa, or Friendly Advice, a Sanscrit story-book, i. 33
Ḥobâb [Al], the keeper of the idols at Thamûd, i. 433
Hobal, an Arab idol, i. 325
Ḥodaybiyeh [Al], a place where a treaty was made between Mohammed
and the Koraysh, i. 442
Hojr, or Ḥajr, a place in Yemâmeh, i. 397; ii. 156, 290, 291
Ḥojr, the father of Imr al Kays, the poet, i. 386, 491
Ḥolwân, a town in Irak, east of Bagdad, i. 106, 112, 113, 274, 285, 472, 523
Ḥolwân ibn ‘Ali ibn Koḍâ‘ah, the founder of the town of Holwân, i. 285
Ḥomaya, daughter of Bahman, i. 287
Homer, i. 8
Homeric, ii. 268
Ḥonayf al Hanâtim: story about him and the subject of a proverb, i. 403
Ḥonayn, Shoes of, i. 162, 260, 363, 532
Horace, i. vii, 430
Horse race, Separate names for the positions of the different horses in a,
i. 487
Ḥosayn [Al] ibn ‘Abd Yaghûth: the story about him and his brother
Ḥakam, i. 404
Hosayn [Al], the son of ‘Ali, the fourth Khalifah, i. 162, 350, 363, 406,
458; ii. 288
Ḥosayn ibn ‘Amr ibn Mo‘âwiat ibn Kilâb, or, as others say, Ḥosayn of
Ghaṭafân, a vagabond, i. 476
Hospitality, i. 193, 409
Hothayfeh, or Ḥothayfet ibn Bedr, owner of Ghabrâ, a mare, who was the
cause of the war of Dâḥis, i. 317
Ḥowrâ, First and second day of, i. 387, 388
Hûd, the Prophet, i. 213, 267, 268, 423; his pedigree, i. 441, 442. About him
compare the Koran, Tabari, and Mirkhond
Hughes, the author of the ‘Dictionary of Islam,’ ii. xi, 202, 244
Ḥuhâḥib [Al or Abû], said to have been a miser, and the story about him,
ii. 241
Ḥulwân bin ‘Imrân, father of Khindaf, which see, ii. 246
Ḥunain, Battle of, ii. 157
Husheng, one of the Peshdâdian Persian kings, i. 455. See Mirkhond,
Part i., vol. ii., and Tabari
Huskisson, i. 71
Ḥuṭamah [Al], the crushing, a Koranic expression applied to Hell, ii. 11,
193
Huthalî, or Huthalîyun, Dîvân, i. 367, 539
Iblîs, the Moslem name for the Devil, i, 175, 273, 296, 378, 379, 440;
ii. 57, 258, 280
Ibn ‘Abbâs, cousin to Mohammed, and the greatest of the early expounders
of the Koran, i. 143, 332, 333, 379, 415, 483; ii. 222, 226. See
Abdallah ibn ‘Abbâs
Ibn Abî Ṭarafeh: his story about the Arab, i. 346
Ibn Adham, ii. 272. See Ibrâhim, son of Adham
Ibn Aḥmar, a poet, i. 518
Ibn ‘Aḳîl, a commentator, i. 99, 300, 503
Ibn al Anbâri, a poet, i. 487
Ibn al Ghazz, the Ayâdi, a very strong man: story about him and the
woman, i. 490
Ibn al Ḥajjâj, a poet of the fourth century of the Hijra, a rival of Ibn
Sukkereh, i. 523
Ibn al ‘Ishrîn, or the youth of twenty years, a name applied to the poet
Ṭarafeh, i. 361
Ibn al Kalbi, ii. 278
Ibn al Moḳaffa‘, or Muqaffa‘, the Persian translator and author, i. 33;
ii. 303. See Abdullah ibn al Moḳaffa‘
Ibn ‘Arabshah, the historian and author of the history of Timur, or Tamer-lane,
i. 50, 98
Ibn Ar Rûmi, a poet, ii. 296
Ibn Batûtah, Geographer and Traveller, ii. 224
Ibn Dorayd, a composer of forty stories full of rare and strange phrases,
i. 271; ii. 45. See Abu Bekr Ibn al Hosayn
Ibn Fâris ar Râzi, the Poet and Grammarian, i. 270, 455
Ibn Hishâm, the Historian, and author of the Sîrat ar Resul, i. 371, 502,
513, 514
Ibn Ḳanbar, a poet, ii. 267
Ibn Khaldûn, the Historian, i. 64, 65, 289, 438, 497
Ibn Khallikân, the Biographer, i. 7, 10, 25, etc. See Appendix A
Ibn Ḳorayb, a reciter, and famed for his knowledge of Arab tradition,
i. 81; ii. 104
Ibn Mâlik, the Grammarian, and author of the “Alfîyeh,” i. 12, 55, 98,
99, 273, 290, 300, 442, 496, 503, 509
Ibn Mas‘ûd, one of the ten most intimate Companions of the Prophet,
ii. 286
Ibn Morr, The dogs of, i. 355
Ibn Muḳlah, the Calligrapher, ii. 272
Ibn Muslimeh, a poet, i. 345
Ibn ‘Omar handed down a tradition, ii. 191
Ibn Qitri, Kadi of Al Mazar, ii. 163
Ibn Rashiḳ, the Poet, i. 301
Ibn Sam‘ûn, a celebrated preacher, i. 224, 456–458
Ibn Ṣârah, a poverty-stricken poet of Spain, i. 515, 516. See Abu
Mohammed ibn Sarat
Ibn Sinbis, The dogs of, i. 355
Ibn Sîrîn, a celebrated interpreter of dreams, ii. 286
Ibn Sirîn, a great lawyer of Basra, i. 350, 351
Ibn Sukkereh, an elegant poet of the fourth century of the Hijra, and rival
of Ibn al Ḥajjâj, i. 253, 257, 523
Ibn Surayj, a great doctor of the rite of Shâfi‘î, and Kadi of Shiraz, i. 161,
358, 399
Ibn Surayj, a musician, i. 437
Ibn Ṭofayl, an Arab writer, i. 467. See Abû Ja‘far
Ibnu ’n-Na’âmeh, name of a celebrated horse, ii. 25, 198
Ibrâhim, son of Adham, a magnate of Khorasan who renounced his wealth
and lived in poverty, ii. 18, 196, 272
Ibrâhim, the father of Isaac, or Isḥâḳ, the musician, he himself being also
a celebrated musician of his time, i. 437
‘Îd and ‘Îdi, name of a celebrated camel, or of a breed of camels connected
with ‘Îd ibn Mahrah, ii. 140, 277
‘Îd, a feast which terminates the pilgrimage, ii. 259
Idrîs, or Ibn Idris, stands for Ash Shâfa‘î, whose full name is Abû Abdallah
Mohammed ibn Idris Ash Shâfa‘î, ii. 57. See Shâfi‘î
‘Ifrît, or ‘Afrit, i. 345, 379; ii. 118. See Afrit
Ignorance, Time of, or Arabs of the, i.e., before Mohammed’s time, and
before Islâm, i. ix, 8, 14, etc. See Appendix A
Iḥrâm, the pilgrim’s cloak, i. 392, 393; ii. 280
Ij‘âm, or system of diacritical pointing now in use in Arabic writing, i. 94
‘Ijli [Al], a powerful Arab family, i. 515
Ikhlâṣ, The, or 112th Sura, or chapter, of the Koran, i. 52
Iḳtibâs, or quotations from the Koran or other works, i. vi, 281, 483
Ikhtiyârât, or Selections, a compilation similar to the Hamâseh by Abû
Temmâm, i. 57
‘Illîyûn, a word used in the Koran, but about which there is a diversity of
opinion, i. 268
‘Imâd ad Dîn, secretary to the Sultan Saladin, i. 11, 26
‘Imâd ad Dîn, the Sultan, i. 489
Imâm, i. 24, 243, 358, 416, 490; ii. 20, 104, 165, 235, 256, 257
Imams, i. 5; ii. 43
Imamship, ii. 43
Improviser, i. 19, 20, 62
Imr al Ḳays, the Poet, and author of one of the Mo‘allakât, i. 14, 16, 56,
60; son of Mohalhil’s sister Fâṭimeh, i. 61, etc. See Appendix A
Index, i. x; ii. vii–x
India, i. 9
Indian, i. vi
Indian Ocean, ii. 252, 306
Indus, The river, i. 4, 27
Introduction [Chenery’s], i. x, 1–102, 469, 496, 498, 526; ii. 31, 218
Invocation, i. 50
Irak, i. 3, 4, 10, etc. See Appendix A
Iran, i. vi, 539
Irem, son of Shem, i. 479
Irem thât al ‘Imâd, or Irem with the Columns, the city of Sheddâd, an
ancient legendary city in the deserts of Yemen, mentioned in the
Koran, i. 368, 369, 441, 468; ii. 9
Irish, ii. 287
‘Îsa, Moslem name of Jesus, ii. 197
Isaac, or Ishâk ibn Ibrâhim, commonly known as Ibn an Nadîm al
Mowṣili, a great and celebrated musician, i. 437, 438
Isaac, son of Abraham, i. 44, 87, 267, 464; ii. 206
‘Îsa ibn Hishâm, the narrator in Hamádâni’s Assemblies, i. 19, 105
‘Isa ibn ‘Omar, one of the instructors of Sibawayh, i. 498
Isaiah, i. 47, 60, 86–88, 406; ii. 240
‘Iṣâm, son of Shahbar, a man who rose by his own merits to be chamberlain
to No‘mân ibn al Munthir, King of Hira, known as No‘mân Abû
Ḳâbûs, i. 255, 518–520
‘Iṣâmi, a person who rises by his own merits, i. 520
Isfendiyâr, a Persian hero, i. 31, 287, 539
Isḥâḳ ibn Khalaf, a poet, i. 435
Ishmael, or Ismâ‘îl, son of Abraham, i. 267, 466
Iskandarî [Al], ii. 162
Islâm, i. 1, 4, 9, 10, etc. See Appendix A
Islâmi, i.e., one who was born after the rise of Islâm, i. 67
Ispahan, i. 514, 515
Israel, i. 44, 87, 465, 530
Israelite, i. 373
Israelites, The, i. 354, 521
Italian, i. 59, 74; ii. 221
Italy, i. 92
Iyâs, called “al Muzanî,” was Kadi of Basra, and celebrated for his
wonderful acuteness, i. 143, 196, 333; stories about him, i. 334, 335,
417. See Abû Wâthilet Iyâs
Iyâs, one of the Companions of the Prophet, and grandfather of the above,
i. 334
Izâr, a waist-wrapper or loin-cloth, i. 33, 396, 397; ii. 33, 94, 139, 202
Jack the Giant-killer, i. 59
Jâbir, or Khalid ibn ‘Amr al-Mazani, a man skilled in reading footprints,
ii. 283
Jacob, the Patriarch, i. 44, 78, 161, 184, 267, 357, 398; ii. 5, 170, 185, 206,
216, 300, 310
Jafneh, a prince of the family of Ghassân, i. 289, 426
Jaḥdar ibn Dobay‘ah, a poet, i. 530
Jabr, i.e., constraint, or unlimited predestination, i. 467
Jair, the sons of, i. 86. See Judges x. 4
Jalinus, the physician, i. 473. See Galen
Jamrât (or Jamrah) of the Arabs, name applied to three tribes, two of
whom became extinct, i. 428
Japhet, one of the sons of Noah, i. 87, 228, 466
Jâr Allah, or “the neighbour of God,” a name given to Zamakshari, which
see, i. 39
Jathîmet al Abrash, or Jathîmeh, King of Hira, i. 42, 73, 244, 277, 494,
495; ii. 190, 206
Jauhari, author of a celebrated dictionary called the “Ṣiḥâḥ,” ii. 224,
225, 236
Jayrûn, The gate of; Jayrûn is said to be the name of an ancient patriarch,
son of the builder of Damascus, i. 169, 173, 369, 370
Jebeleh, or Jebelet ibn al Ayham, the last prince of Ghassân, i. 289, 396,
397; ii. 18, 196
Jedîd, a Persian metre, i. 57
Jedîs, an Arab ancestor and primeval tribe, i. 381, 466
Jehovah, i. 44
Jehuda the Rabbin, son of Al Khâriji. He wrote some Assemblies in
Hebrew, i. 97
Jelâl ad Dîn ‘Amîd ad Dowlat ibn Ṣadaḳah, the Wazir, i. 26
Jelâl ad Dîn Mohammed, author of the “Talkhîs al Miftâḥ,” a work on
rhetoric, i. 99
Jelîleh and Mâwîyeh, wives of Kolayb Wâ’il, and daughters of Morrat ibn
Thohl ibn Shayban ibn Tha‘labeh, i. 527
Jelûleh, Battle of, 285
Jenûb, the sister of ‘Amr thû ’l kelb, a poetess, i. 367
Jeremiah, i. 60, 87, 354, 377, 393, 434; ii. 240
Jeremiah, The Lamentations of, i. 88, 89
Jerîr, the great poet of early Islam, i. 81, 349, 350, 458, 523; ii. 104, 225,
242, 248
Jerome, i. 47
Jerusalem, i. 3, 325, 370, 489; ii. 253
Jesus, son of Mary, i. 267, 413, 469, 531; ii. 197, 304
Jessâs, son of Morrat ibn Thohl, and brother to Jelîleh and Mâwîyeh
wives of Kolayb Wâ’il, who was killed by him, i. 527–529
Jew, i. 90, 334, 397, 452; ii. 50
Jewish, i. 46; ii. 300
Jews, i. 31, 46, 69, 88, 283, 393, 403, 409, 415, 416, 421, 434
Jez’ ibn Kolayb, a poet, i. 436
Jihâd, or war against infidels, i. 454
Jinn, supposed by some to be men of a peculiar race, by others genii, or
evil spirits or demons. They are frequently mentioned in the Koran
and “Arabian Nights,” i. 4, 256, 285, 307–309, 329, 330, 345, 372, 373,
378, 379, 403, 423, 445, 478, 479, 494, 521; ii. 36, 108, 251, 270, 272.
See Ghûl and Ifrît
Jinnî, or Shaiṭan, with whom the Arabs compare an energetic man, i. 479
Jith‘, of the tribes of Ghassân and connected with a proverb, i. 289,
295
Job, one of the Prophets, according to Moslem belief, i. 267, 368
Job, Book of, i. 45–47, 60, 86, 311, 336, 369, 393, 399, 445, 464
Joel, the Prophet, i. 60
Johayneh, or Jofayneh, a man and a place, i. 231, 475, 476, 517
Joḥfah [Al], place of burial of Ẓarîfeh, which see, i. 372
John, an Apostle, i. 531
John the Baptist, i. 267
Jokhtan, an Arab ancestor, i. 426. See Ḳaḥtân
Jonah, a Prophet according to Moslem belief, i. 267, 415
Jondo‘, son of ‘Âmir, chief of a party in Thamûd who believed in the
Prophet Ṣâliḥ, i. 433
Jones, Sir William, the Orientalist, i. 46, 50, 221 note, 451, 453
Jonathan, son of Saul, i. 44, 453
Jorhom, an Arab ancestor, i. 425, 466
Jorjâni, the author of the Ta’rîfât, which see, i. 266
Joscelin ii., Prince of Edessa, i. 489
Joseph, son of Jacob, i. 78, 267, 357, 358, 398, 417, 499, 538; ii. 62, 65, 68,
70, 210, 213, 215, 216, 298, 303, 310
Josephus, i. 46, 47
Joshua, i. 26
Judas Iscariot, i. 439
Judges, Book of, i. 86, 348
Juḥfah, an assembling station of pilgrims, ii. 32
July, i. 146, 147 note
Justinian, the Emperor, i. 491, 492
Ka‘b, or ankle, used in phrases connected with honour, fortune, or reputation,
i. 481
Ḳa’beh, or Ḳa’bah, The, at Mecca, i. 155, 222, 279, 315, 316, 348, 370, 405;
ii. 47, 177, 202, 204, 253, 255, 266, 280, 305
Ka‘b ibn Ḳurt, the Anṣâri, conqueror of Rayy, i. 455
Ka‘b ibn Mâlik, a poet on the side of Mohammed, i. 430
Ka‘b ibn Mâmeh, a man famed for his generosity, i. 471, 472
Ka‘b ibn Zohayr, the Poet, and author of the “Burdeh,” or Poem of the
Mantle, i. 62 note, 397, 501; ii. 305
Ḳâbil, i. 296. See Cain
Ḳâbûs, brother of ‘Amr, King of Hira, i. 360, 361
Ḳa‘ḍab, a maker of the points of lances, i. 446
Ḳadar, or determining power, i. 467
Ḳadari doctrine which attributes free will and optional actions to man,
i. 467
Kadi, a judge or magistrate, i. 38, 58, 79, 80, etc. See Appendix A
Ḳâf, a mountain barrier which surrounds the world, i. 469; ii. 101
Kâfs of winter. This applies to seven things beginning with the letter Kâf
requisite for comfort during winter, i. 253, 255, 257, 524
Kâfûr, the clever and strong-minded negro eunuch, i. 471
Ḳâhir [Al], the nineteenth Abbaside Khalif, i. 470
Kahlân, son of Saba or ‘Abd Shems, an Arab ancestor, i. 423, 426
Ḳaḥṭân, an Arab ancestor, i. 426
Kai-Khosru, the heroic Persian monarch, i. 539
Ḳaisi, i.e., of the tribe Ḳais, ii. 87, 231
Ḳa‘ḳâ [Al], son of Showr, famous for his generosity, and alluded to in a
proverb, i. 229, 471, 472; ii. 153, 288, 298
Ḳalansuweh, The, or high-crowned cap of a dervish or preacher, i.
459
Kalb, an Arab tribe, ii. 196, 270
Kalîleh wa Dimneh, a Persian story-book of the same kind as the Sanscrit
“Puncha Tantra” and “Hitopadesa,” from which it is said to be derived,
i. 33, 277; ii. 303
Kâmil, an Arabic metre, i. 55, 56, 306, 328, 417, 421, 451, 463, 479, 484,
488, 496, 537
Ḳâmûs, or Qâmûs, a work by Firuzabâdi, i. 313, 397, 500, 530; ii. 138,
188, 219
Ḳanbas, or Qanbas, daughter of Abû ‘Anbas, fanciful names, ii. 29, 200
Ḳaran, a place in Nejd, ii. 242
Ḳarîb, a Persian metre, i. 57
Karinetân, two corresponding sentences rhyming with each other, i. 54
Karûn, river, i. 525
Kashgar, i. 67, 344
Ḳâṣhir, either a celebrated camel stallion or a year of drought, ii. 104,
246
Kashshâf, or Keshshâf, a work by Zamakhshari, i. 97, 316
Ḳaṣîdeh, or regular poem, i. 41, 55, 58, 60, 61, 62 note, 76, 271, 287, 340,
366, 382, the first specimen of it 449, 482, 519, 520, 526, 529, 539;
ii. 247, 289
Ḳaṣîdehs, i. 14, 17, 57, 62; ii. 56, 282, 309
Ḳâsim [Al] ibn ‘Isa the ‘Ijli, i. 515. See Abû Dulaf al ‘Ajili
Ḳasîm, District of, i. 480
Ḳaṭa, a bird, i. 147, 235, 339, 340, 431, 480; ii. 54, 189, 225
Ḳaṭâmî [Al], a poet, ii. 241
Ḳaylah, an Arab ancestress, i. 117, 118, 295
Ḳayls, The, or petty princess of Himyar, i. 438
Ḳayn [Al], an Arab ancestor. Ḳayn was a branch of the Benû Asad,
i. 148, 340
Ḳays ibn ‘Âṣim, chief of Temîm, a hero praised by Mohammed as the
noblest of the Arabs of the desert, i. 435, 436
Ḳays, son of Ghaylân, an Arab ancestor, i. 428
Ḳays, son of Zohayr, chief of the Benû ‘Abs, and owner of the horse
Dâḥis, i. 316, 317
Ḳays, Tribe of, i. 349, 476, 497, 512; ii. 231, 241, 246
Kâzimah, a town in the dependency of Basra, ii. 135
Ḳazwîni, an Arab author, i. 279, 477
Kazzab [Al], The Liar, a name given to Musaylimeh or Abû S̤umâmeh,
which see, ii. 245
Kerej, a town, i. 76 note, 106, 253, 256, 274, 514, 515
Khabîṣah, a mess of khabîs, or dates, and butter, i. 284
Khadîjeh, the first wife of Mohammed, i. 367
Khafîf, an Arabic metre, i. 56, 406, 408, 440, 537
Khalanj tree, ii. 21
Khalf al Aḥmar, an Arab author, i. 453
Khâlid, a friend of Munthir ibn Mâ’as Sema, King of Hira, and killed by
him, i. 385
Khâlid al Ḳasri, one of the officers of the Khalif Hishâm, the tenth Omay-yide
Khalif, i. 371
Khâlid ibn Al Welîd, the famous Arab general, i. 305, 318, 405, 495, 518;
ii. 245, 262, 263
Khalif, i. 3, 4, 17, etc. See Appendix A
Khalifate, i. 3, 5, 6, etc. See Appendix A
Khalifs, i. 3, 17, 34, 384, 437, 456, 515
Khalîl [Al], the founder of Arabic grammar and prosody, i. 8, 54, 57, 58,
81, 94, 284, 297, 427, 498; ii. 104, 246, 306
Khamîṣah, a black square garment with borders, i. 284
Khân, or inn, ii. 14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 24
Khansâ [Al], the Pug-nosed, nickname of Tumâḍir, which see. The most
celebrated Arab poetess, especially for her elegies on her brother
Ṣakhr, i. 30, 52, 80, 387–391; ii. 104, 143, 246, 281
Kharîdat al Kasr, a work by ‘Imâd ad Din, containing many particulars of
Ḥarîri’s life, i. 11
Khâriji [Al], a Jew, father of the Rabbin Jehuda, i. 97
Khaṭṭ, a place celebrated for lances, i. 446
Khauwât ibn Jubair: the story about him, ii. 291
Khawârij, the name given to those fanatical followers of ‘Ali who seceded
from him after the battle of Ṣiffîn, i. 327
Khaybar, not far from Medina, i. 397, 415, 442. For an account of
Mohammed’s victory at Khaybar over the Jews compare Tabari and
Mirkhond
Khayf, Mosque of the, at Mina, i. 342
Khayf [Al], or slope of Mina, i. 182, 393; ii. 34
Khâzim, the Noḳmî, connected with the capture of Shanfara, the vagabond
poet, i. 353
Khazraj, an Arab ancestor and tribe who settled at Yathrib, afterwards
called Medina, i. 295, 426
Khida’a, name of a tribe or of a bird, ii. 249, 250
Khilâf tree, ii. 41
Khindaf, the surname of Laila, daughter of Hulwan bin Imrân, and wife
of Alyas, son of Moḍar, and surpassing all Arab women in glory as
ancestress of the Koraysh, i. 10, 80; ii. 104, 246
Khizr [Al], the Prophet, ii. 87, 231
Khofâf ibn Nedbeh, a mulatto, i. 352
Khorâfeh, a man said to have been carried away by Jinn, i. 307, 308
Khorasan, i. 72, 258, 270, 499, 526; ii. 196, 235, 306
Khosru Nushirvan, i. 451. See Nushirvan
Khosru Perwez, a Persian King, i. 442, 451, 455; ii. 245, 246
Khoṭbah, or oratorical address, i. 48, 337, 392, 538
Khowta‘ah, connected with a proverb, i. 386
Khozâza, Day of, the day Wâ’il ibn Rabî‘ah, or Kolayb Wâ’il, defeated an
army of Yemen, i. 448, 527
Khozâ‘ah, an Arab tribe, i. 64, 426, 434. See Benû Khozâ‘ah
Ḳiblah, The, i.e., the direction towards Mecca to be observed by Moslems
when praying, ii. 56, 177, 305
Ḳinâneh, an Arab tribe, i. 64, 434. See Benû Kinâneh
Kings, Book of, in the Bible, i. 393
King’s College, London, i. 101
Kinyeh, or by-name, or nickname, i. 21, 215, 278, 314, 315, 327, 408, 447;
ii. 255, 302
Kisâ’î [Al], the Kufian Grammarian, i. 72, 498, 499
Kisra, Arabic form of Chosroes, ii. 13, 64, 213. See Chosroes
“Kitâb al Aghâni,” a very celebrated work, containing much information
about the early Arabs, i. 385, 386, 436, 437, 491, 519, 530
“Kitâb al Jomân,” a book quoted and extracted from by De Sacy in the
“Mémoires de l’Académie Royale,” i. 372
“Kitâb,” The, a celebrated work of Sibawayh, the Grammarian, i. 498,
499. See Sibawayh
Ḳiṭmîr, the dog of the Cave, i. 415
Ḳiyâfeh, the art of divining, i. 332
Ḳodâmah, a scribe of Bagdad, eminent for purity of composition, i. 106,
274
Ḳodâr, the son of Sâlif and Ḳodayrah. He was an opponent of the
prophet Ṣâliḥ, and killed the she-camel of Thamûd, i. 208, 431, 433
Ḳoḍâ‘ah, an Arab tribe, i. 64, 495. See Benû Ḳodâ‘ah
Koḥl, a dark pigment or collyrium for the eyelids, i. 145, 147 note, 148,
296, 340, 341, 355; ii. 114, 116, 170, 261
Kokan, Khanate of, i. 344
Kolayb Wâ‘il, a very famous person of Arab antiquity, i. 60, 74, 217 (his
pedigree, 448), 449, 480, 526–529
Komayt [Al] ibn Ma‘rûf, a poet, i. 321
Komayt [Al] ibn Tha‘labeh, a poet, i. 321
Komayt [Al] ibn Zayd, the last of three poets of the same name, i. 132,
320, 321, 340; ii. 242
Koran, Chapters of the. These and the references to each chapter from
i. to cxiv. will be found in Appendix A
Koran, References to the. As these are very numerous, they will be found
in Appendix A
Koranic, ii. 193, 196, 200, 213, 229, 242, 276, 277, 297
Ḳoraysh, an Arab ancestor, i. 318; ii. 225
Ḳoraysh, an Arab tribe, i. 8, 16, 30, etc.; ii. 246, 280, 293. See Benû
Koraysh and Appendix A
Ḳorayshi, i.e., of the tribe of Koraysh, i. 518
Kosa‘, a very mean man, i. 300
Kosa‘, Tribe of, in Yemen, i. 351
Kosa‘î [Al], a poet, and subject of a proverb, i. 157, 349–351
Ḳoṣayr bin Sa‘d, a man who cut off his nose for a set purpose, i. 73, 277;
ii. 5, 190, 206
Kosegarten, J. G. L., German Orientalist and historian: his edition of the
“Kitâb al Aghâni,” i. 436, 437; of the “Diwân of the Huthalîyûn,”
i. 539
Ḳoss, Christian Bishop of Najrân, an eloquent preacher of the time of
Mohammed, i. 81, 263, 269, 309, 537, 538; ii. 104, 113, 248, 256
Ḳoṣṣaiy, an ancestor of Mohammed the Apostle, ii. 293
Kotaybet ibn Muslim, a celebrated Arab General, i. 344, 474, 520
Kothayyir Ṣâḥib ‘Azza, or the Lover of ‘Azza, a poet, i. 383
Krehl’s edition of the Traditions of Bokhâri, i. 268
Kufa, i. x, 3, 7, 66, 71, 126, 127, 266, 292, 308, 326, 406, 411, 497, 505;
ii. 242, 248, 292, 306
Kufian, i. 498, 499, 513
Kufians, i. 505, 506, 512, 513
Ḳurâb, or Qurâb, name of a celebrated horse, ii. 145, 282
Kurdistan, i. 489
Kurds, The, i. 287, 426, 515; ii. 169
Kûsh, a black race, i. 467
Lailá, a woman, ii. 238, 290
Laḳab, or Laqab, sobriquet of a person or place in praise or blame, i. 315,
522; ii. 199, 297
Lâm, a letter of the Arabic alphabet, and prefixed to certain chapters of
the Koran, i. 96; ii. 35
Lamech, a descendant of Cain and father of Noah, i. 43, 44, 87
Lâmîyet al ‘Arab, a celebrated Ḳaṣîdeh by the poet Shanfara, i. 340, 353,
445; ii. 224
Lane, E. W., author of an Arabic English Lexicon, of “Manners and
Customs of the Modern Egyptians,” and of other works, i. 65 note,
269, etc. See Appendix A
Laqît, a poet, ii. 293
Latin, i. ix, 84, 101, 357, 415, 501, 514; ii. 232, 251, 252
Latins, i. 443
Lebanon, The, i. 98
Lebîd, the pre-Islamite poet, and author of one of the Mo‘allaḳât, i. 56,
306, 316, 446, 501, 502
Legend, i. 86, 279, etc. See Appendix A
Legendary, i. 6, 41
Legends, i. ix, 42, 48, 300, 461, 477, 490, 517, 539; ii. ix
Legist, ii. 38, 39, 56, 205
Leipzic, i. 266
Lelewel, Joachim, a writer about mediæval Geography, i. 467
Letters interchangeable, ii. 165, 297
Letters, pointed and unpointed, i. 133, 136, 258, 274; ii. 8, 146, 150, 197,
285
Leviticus, Book of, i. 354, 373, 516
Lexicographers, i. 90, 456, 533; ii. 44, 187, 239, 248, 264, 273
Lexicography, i. 15, 63
Lexicon, i. 43, 65 note. See Appendix A
Libraries, i. 9
Library, i. 34
Lisâm, or face-veil, ii. 62, 64, 69
Literæ Bellerophonteæ, i. 358
Loḳmân al Ḥakîm, son of Bâ‘urâ, of the children of Âzar, said to be a
relation of Job, i. 422
Loḳmân, son of ‘Ád, called Loḳmân of the Vultures, celebrated for his
longevity, i. 422, 423, 442, 476, 478, 516, 517; ii. 262
Loḳmân the Wise, said to have been a slave and Abyssinian negro, the
contemporary of David, and mentioned in the Koran, but rather a
mythical sage, i. 33, 231, 277, 476, 477; ii. 131, 175, 305
London, i. 101, 322; ii. 306
Lot, i. 267, 431; ii. 53
Lotus trees, ii. 262
Lubad, name of a vulture, i. 423
Luzûm, or peculiar verses explained, i. 461
Lycophron, a Greek poet, i. 91, 92, 540
Ma‘add, the son of ‘Adnân, an Arab ancestor, i. 9, 448, 527
Ma‘arrah, or Ma‘arrat an No‘mân, a town in the north of Syria, i. 145,
146, 336
Ma‘bad ibn Wabb, or ibn Ḳaṭan, the greatest musician and singer of the
early Khalifate, i. 209, 436–438
Ma‘bad ibn Naḍlah, author of a proverb, i. 375
Macbeth, i. 382
Mâdir the Befouler, nickname of Mokhâriḳ, a man of the tribe of Benû
Hilâl ibn ‘Amir, noted for his meanness of character and his
stinginess, and so connected with a proverb, i. 80, 300, 375, 376;
ii. 104, 246
Maghdad, i. 391. See Bagdad
Maghrib [Western Africa], i. 28; ii. 138, 306
Magian, i. 33
Mahdi [Al], the third Abbaside Khalif, i. 455, 493, 523
Mahrah, a place, i. 215; camels of, i. 445, 446
Mahrah, a tribe in Yemen, ii. 277
Mahrat ibn Haydân, chief of a tribe in Yemen, i. 445; ii. 238
Mahri camels, ii. 94, 238
Mahrîyah, feminine of the above, ii. 238, 277
Maiden, Description of a, i. 209; ii. 71, 73, 115, 120
Maiyah, or Mayyah, daughter of Ḳays, ii. 3, 189
Majma‘, The, or “collection,” i.e., of Arab proverbs, is the title under
which Maydâni’s great work on the subject appears in Hajji Khalfeh,
ii. 303
Maḳâmah, i. 13, 20, 269, 270; ii. 89. See Assembly
Maḳâmât, i. v, vii, 19, 270, 271, 455; ii. vii, 109, 242, 248. See Assemblies
Mâlik and ‘Oḳayl, the sons of Ḳârij, men of Balḳayn: their story, i. 494,
495
Mâlik, brother of Mutemmim, the poet, i. 495
Mâlik ibn ‘Amr al ‘Âmili, and his brother Simâk: the story about them,
i. 362
Mâlik ibn Jana, one of the Arab sages to whom a proverb is attributed, i. 406
Mâlik ibn Jobayr, an Arab General to whom a proverb is attributed, i. 406
Mâlik ibn Nowayrah, treacherously put to death by Khâlid ibn al Welîd,
and connected with a proverb, i. 304, 305, 518
Mâlik ibn Ṭowk, Governor of Al Jezîreh, i. 158, 351
Mâlik ibn Zohayr, of the Benû Ḳoḍâ‘ah, who had founded the city of
Hira, i. 495
Mâlik, of the family of ‘Amr Muzayḳîyâ, i. 426
Mâlik, son of Arphaxad, an ancestor, i. 369
Mâlik, the custodian angel of hell, ii. 11
Mâlik, the Imâm, i. 392; ii. 235
Malatyah, a town on the western side of the Euphrates, ii. 74, 75, 219;
also called Malatîyah
Ma‘mûn [Al], the seventh Abbaside Khalif, i. 18, 34, 76 note, 319, 437,
515; ii. 246
Ma‘n ibn Ows, a poet, i. 482
Manna, i. 87; ii. 88, 232
Mansham, supposed to be the name of a woman who traded in perfumes,
ii. 150, 287
Manṣûr [Al], the second Abbaside Khalif, i. 33, 285, 391, 455, 467, 468,
493; ii. 25, 219, 245
Manṣûr ibn ‘Ammâr, ii. 254. About him see a note of De Slane in his
translation of Ibn Khallikan, vol. ii., p. 545
Mantiḳ aṭ Ṭayr, a mystical Persian work by Farîd ad Dîn ‘Aṭṭâr, i. 277
Mareb, or Marib, Dyke of, i. 41, 48, 279, 288, 372, 422–425
Markh tree, ii. 233
Mârût, i. 434. See Hârût
Marw, or Merv, a town in Khorasan, i. 455; ii. 89, 90, 235
Marwâzi, the derivative adjective formed from Marw, i. 455; ii. 235
Marwah, Mount, near Mecca, ii. 43, 280
Marwân ibn Mohammed, the fourteenth and last Khalif of the Omayyide
dynasty, ii. 248
Mary, i.e., the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, i. 348; ii. 197, 271
Massoretic, i. 71
Mas‘ûd, the Seljûk Sultan, i. 25, 38
Mas‘ûdi, the Historian, i. 42 note, 422, 423, 425, 426, 467; ii. x
Matrimony, ii. 120, 126, 271
Matron, ii. 120, 127
Mâ’u ’s-samâ, a beautiful woman, mother of Munzir, King of Hira, ii. 27,
198
Mâ’u ’s-samâ, son of, the sobriquet of ‘Âmir bin Ḥarîsah al-Azdi, see, ii. 199
Mâwân, a place, i. 130
Mâwîyeh and Jelîleh, wives of Kolayb Wâ’il, i. 527
Mâwîyeh, a Queen of the family or tribe of Ghassân, i. 289
Maydâni, celebrated for his collection of Arab proverbs, i. 69, 73, 74, 91,
273, 332, 335, 339, 474, 476, 490, 495, 520, 523; ii. 205, 211, 243, 261,
273, 278, 286, 300, 301
Maymûn ibn Khizâm, the name of the hero in Naṣîf al Yazaji’s Assemblies,
which see, i. 99
Mayyâfâriḳîn, a town of Diyâr Bekr, i. 220, 452
Mazar [Al], a town near Basra, ii. 163
Mecca, i. x, 39, etc. See Appendix A
Medîd, an Arabic metre, i. 56
Medina, i. x, 93, 295, 307, 318, 370, 396, 397, 428, 429, 538; ii. xi, 37, 50,
57, 200, 202, 214, 226, 292
Mediterranean, The, i. 91; ii. 252
Mehren, a German Orientalist, translator and author, ii. 250
“Mejma ‘al Baḥrayn,” or “the confluence of the two seas,” by Naṣîf al
Yazaji, a work resembling the Assemblies of Ḥarîri, i. 99. See Naṣîf
and Assemblies of Naṣîf
Melek Shah, the son and successor of Alp Arslan, and the third Sultan of
the Seljukide dynasty, i. 5, 526
Mendicancy, i. 83; ii. 169
Merâghah, a place in Azerbijan, i. 132, 133
Merâj, a sub-tribe of the sons of Ḳays, i. 476
Merdâs ibn ‘Âmir, second husband of Khansâ, the Poetess, i. 389, 390
Meshân, a place to the north of Basra, i. 10, 29, 38
Meslemet ibn ‘Abd al Melîk, brother of Welîd and Sulaymân, the sixth
and seventh Omayyide Khalifs, i. 320
Mesopotamia, ii. 219
Messiah, The, i. 267
Methḥij, an Arab tribe in whom the art of divining was hereditary, i. 332,
428
Metonymy is the use of indirect expressions, i. 273
Metre, i. 47, 57, etc. See Appendix A
Metres, i. 57, 275, 293, 297, 306, 367
Metres, Names of Arabic. See Basîṭ, Hezej, Kâmîl, Khafîf, Medîd,
Mujteth, Munsariḥ, Muteḳârib, Rejez, Reml, Sarî‘, Ṭawîl, Wâfir
Metres, Names of Persian. See Ḳarîb, Jedîd, Mushâkil
Metrical verse, i. 42
Midian, The inhabitants of, i. 431
Mîm, a letter of the Arabic alphabet, and prefixed to certain chapters of
the Koran, i. 53, 96
Mina, a place near Mecca, connected with the Pilgrimage, i. 148, 342, 393,
463; ii. 40, 136, 279
Mirkhond, the Persian Historian, ii. x
Miṣr [Egypt and Cairo], ii. 25
Mite, a small unstamped piece of metal used as a coin, i. 142, 331; ii. 35,
288
Moab, i. 44, 60, 87
Moḍar, name of an Arab ancestor, and applied to his descendants and race,
i. 10, 64, 65, 352, 359, 387, 428, 438, 474
Mo‘allaḳah, or prize poem, suspended at Mecca, i. 61
Mo‘allaḳah, of ‘Amr ibn Kulthûm, i. 56, 351, 361, 501, 539
Mo‘allaḳah, of ‘Antarah, i. 56, 295, 317, 331, 438
Mo‘allaḳah, of Ḥârith ibn Ḥillizeh, i. 56, 61, 383
Mo‘allaḳah, of Imr al Ḳays, i. 56, 61, 376, 386, 394; ii. 267
Mo‘allaḳah, of Lebîd, i. 56, 306, 316, 446, 501
Mo‘allaḳah, of Ṭarafeh, i. 56, 284, 293, 358, 380, 407, 411, 439, 448, 473,
487, 495; ii. 301
Mo‘allaḳah, of Zohayr ibn Abi Sulmè, i. 56, 306, 400, 460
Mo‘allaḳât, or prize poems, suspended at Mecca, i. 39, 56, 61, 64, 332, 351,
358, 384
Moghayrat [Al] ibn Sho‘beh, sent by Mohammed to destroy the idol-goddess
Allât, i. 405
Mohalhil ibn Rabî‘ah, the Poet. His real name was Adî, but called
Mohalhil on account of the beauty of his poetry. The first ḳaṣîdeh,
composed about his brother Kolayb Wâ’il, is attributed to him, i. 60,
448, 449, 529, 530
Moḥallib [Al], Governor of Mowṣil, i. 326
Mohammed, the Apostle, i. 14–18, etc. See Appendix A
Mohammedan, i. v, 1, 3, 6; ii. 207, 275
Mohammedans, ii. 201, 231, 306
Mohammed ibn al Ḥasan al Ḥanafi, an author, i. 358
Mohammed ibn al Mustanîr, a pupil of Sibawayh, the Grammarian,
ii. 286
Mohammed ibn Ka‘b, one of the Companions of the Prophet, ii. 239
Moḥârib ibn Ḳays, one of the supposed names of Kosa‘î [Al], which see,
i. 351
Mokhâriḳ, the real name of Mâdir the Befouler, which see, i. 375; ii. 246
Moloch, to whom human sacrifices were made, i. 393
Monk, ii. 120, 128, 270
Monkery, i. 370; ii. 128, 270
Monks, i. 370; ii. 253, 271
“Monumenta Vetustiora Arabiæ,” by Schultens, i. 377, 384, 496, 522
Moon, The (its twenty-eight stations, or mansions, i. 313, 314, 443), i. 490;
ii. 20, 76, 90, 128, 221, 234, 252, 253
Moons, ii. 63, 114, 252, 253
Morocco, i. 67, 304, 410
Morr, sister of Temîm, and mother of Barrah, which see, i. 318; ii. 225
Morrah, Family of, i. 527, 529
Morrat ibn Thohl ibn Shaybân ibn Tha‘labeh, father of the two wives of
Kolayb Wâ’il, i. 527
Mosaic, i. 89, 516
Moses, i. 44, 46, etc. See Appendix A
Moses, Hand of, i. 409
Moslem, i. 13, 17, 23, etc. See Appendix A
Moslems, i. 20, 30, 69, etc. See Appendix A
Mo‘taḍid [Al], the sixteenth Abbaside Khalif, i. 470
Mo‘tamid, the fifteenth Abbaside Khalif, i. 351
Moṭarrezi, Arabian Jurist, Philologist, and Grammarian, i. 76 note, 306,
312, 349, 351, 356; ii. 197, 284
Mo‘taṣim [Al], the eighth Abbaside Khalif, i. 76, 344, 437, 515
Mother of the Koran, i.e., its first chaper, i. 171, 373; ii. 175; sometimes
called the twice-read chapter, at i. 120, 301; ii. 296, 297
Mother of various qualities, i. 218, 450, 451
Mo‘ṭî ibn Iyâs, the Poet, i. 285
Moṭ‘in [Al] ibn al Ḥakam: the story about him, i. 404
Moultan, i. 67
Mowṣil, or Mosul, i. 139, 326
Mu‘âth, son of Jebel, a Traditionist, i. 267
Mu‘âwiyeh, a warrior of the tribe of Sulaym, and brother of Ṣakhr and
Khansâ, the Poetess, i. 387, 388
Mu‘âwiyeh, the first Omayyide Khalif, i. 309, 333, 369, 436, 439, 458, 482;
ii. 228, 229, 255
Mu‘âwiyeh, the son of Hisham, the tenth Omayyide Khalif, i. 320
Mubarrid [Al], the Grammarian, ii. 293
Muezzins, or callers to prayer, ii. 178, 188, 191, 206
Mufâkharah, or poetical contest, i. 30, 430
Mufti, or jurisconsult, i. 77; ii. 37
Muhâjir, a refugee exile from Mecca, who came to Medina with and after
Mohammed, i. 396
Muhâjirûn, plural of the above, i. 373
Muir, Sir William, his “Life of Mohamet,” ii. 226
Muhallab [Al], and his sons, all distinguished for valour and virtue, ii. 255
“Mujmil,” The, a work by Ibn Fâris, i. 270
Mujteth, an Arabic metre, i. 282, 387, 395, 398
Muḳaddimeh fî’t trîkh, a work by Ibn Khaldûn, i. 497
Mukhaḍram, i.e., any poet who was contemporary with the preaching of
Islâm, i. 67
Muḳtadir b’illâh [Al], the eighteenth Abbaside Khalif, i. 469–471
Mukhtaṣar al Ma‘âni, a shorter commentary on Rhetoric and Plagiarism,
i. 99, 481–483, 486, 500
Mulḥatu ’l-i‘râb, a grammatical treatise by Ḥarîri, ii. 263
Munâfarah, The, a contention before an umpire on the titles of a man or
tribe to nobility or honour, i. 375, 488, 537; ii. 281
Munakhkhal [Al], the lover of Mutejarradeh, Queen of Hira, i. 519
Munkar, the angel who visits the dead, ii. 192
Munsariḥ, an Arabic metre, i. 342, 347
Munshi, or official writer, i. 11, 28
Muntaṣir [Al], the eleventh Abbaside Khalif, i. 469
Munthir ibn Mâ as Semâ, King of Hira, i. 76, 385, 491
Munzir [Al], father of Sajahi, the Prophetess, ii. 245
Munzir bin Imr al Ḳais, King of Hira, ii. 198, 199
Murrah, an Arab tribe, i. 387, 388. See Benû Murrah
Murîr, or Murin, an Arab of the tribe Kalb, who was taken captive by the
Jinn, ii. 270
Muṣ‘ab ibn ‘Omayr, a martyr, i. 401
Muṣ‘ab ibn az Zobayr, Governor of Irak, i. 326
Musammaṭât, verses explained, i. 366, 367, 375
Musaylimeh, or Musaylamah, the Liar and false prophet, slain after
Mohammed’s death, i. 93; ii. 245, 290
Mushâkil, a Persian metre, i. 57
Mustarshid billah [Al], the twenty-ninth Abbaside Khalif, i. 25, 26
Muṭawwal, a longer commentary on Plagiarism, i. 481. See Mukhtaṣar
Mu‘tazil, the name applied to the leader of the heretodox sect of the
Mu‘tazilûn, i. 467
Mu‘tazilûn, or Seceders, i. 39, 464, 467, 468
Mutejarradeh, wife of No‘mân ibn al Munthir, King of Hira: the story
about her, i. 519
Muteḳârib, an Arabic metre, i. 328, 375, 418, 447
Mutekellimûn, or scholastic divines, i. 5
Mutelemmis, the Poet. His real name was Jerir, son of ‘Abd al Masîḥ,
and uncle of the poet Ṭarafeh, i. 16, 162, 347, 358–361
Mutemmim ibn Nowayrah, a Poet to whom a proverb is attributed, i. 305,
495
Mutenebbi [Al], the Poet, i. 14, 57, 61, 462, 471, 482–484, 525, 526; ii. 193,
219, 238, 264
Mutewekkil [Al], the tenth Abbaside Khalif, i. 469
Muṭî‘ l’illâh [Al], the twenty-third Abbaside Khalif, i. 456
Muttaḳi [Al], the twenty-first Abbaside Khalif, i. 487
Muwaṭṭ, one of the oldest collections of the Ḥadîs, compiled by Imâm
Mâlik, ii. 235
Muwelledûn, so the poets are called after the first century of Islâm, i. 67
Muzayḳîyâ, a name given to a person because he tore up his clothes every
evening, i. 41, 86, 288, 423. See Amr ibn ‘Âmir Muzayḳîyâ, or The
Tearer
Muzdalifeh, a general meeting-place of the pilgrims near Mecca, and
divided from Mina by the Wadi Moḥassir, i. 342; ii. 32
Myths of modern origin, ii. 231
Na‘âmeh, a mare belonging to Abû Na‘âmeh, i. 327
Naba‘ tree, ii. 234
Nabaṭ, a collective noun for the Nabateans, said to be descendants of Seth,
ii. 170, 300
Nâbighah [An], or Nâbighat ath Tohbyâni, the Poet, i. 339, 382, 389,
518–520; ii. 5, 190, 289, 308
Naḍr [An] ibn Al Ḥârith, the teller of Persian stories in the time of
Mohammed, and denunciated in the Koran, i. 31, 539
Naḍr [An] ibn Shemîl: the story about him, i. 471
Nâfi‘, eldest brother of the poet Imr al Ḳays, i. 386
Nâfi‘ ibn al Azraḳ, a leader of the Azârikah sect, i. 327
Najrân, a celebrated town of Yemen, i. 269, 404; ii. 113, 114, 255, 256
Najrân ibn Zayd, founder of Najrân, ii. 256
Namir [An] ibn Ḳâsiṭ, Tribe of, i. 472; ii. 198
Nakîr, the angel who visits the dead, ii. 192
Namirî, a man of Namir alluded to in a proverb, i. 472
Naṣb, or the use of the nominative and accusative case in certain Arabic
phrases, i. 243, 245, 249, 538. See Raf‘
Nasîb, or mention of the beloved one in a Ḳaṣîdeh, i. 61
Naṣîbîn, a city in the Diyâr Rabî‘ah, i. 214, 215, 445, 447, 452
Naṣîf al Yazaji of Beyrout, a modern author of some Assemblies, i. 62,
98, etc. See Appendix A and Assemblies of Nasîf
Naṣr ibn ‘Aṣim, a scribe connected with elucidating the pronunciation of
words in the Koran, i. 94
Nawâr, wife of the poet Farazdaḳ, i. 157, 349, 350
Nazr bin Kananah, father of Koraysh, ii. 225
Needle, i. 145, 146 note, 148–150, 166, 337–339, 341; ii. 40, 41, 159
Nefl, an observance left to be performed by the believer spontaneously,
not absolutely commanded, i. 329. See Fard
Nehavend, a place, i. 526
Nehemiah, i. 87
Neighbours, Duty to, i. 121, 122, 153, 171
Nejd, a province or district in Arabia, i. 63, 64, 283, 316, 376, 426, 428,
449, 480, 516, 527; ii. 119, 136, 178, 234, 242, 280
Nejm ad Dowleh, the Poet who celebrated in verse Ḥarîri’s merits, i. 38
Neo-Hebrew, or Rabbinical literature, i. 88
Nile, The, ii. 108, 252, 253
Nimrod, i. 369, 489
Nisabûr, a town, i. 271
Nizâm al Mulk, the Wazîr of Alp Arslan, and his son Melek Shah, i. 5,
6, 526
Nizâmîyeh, The, a celebrated school at Bagdad, i. 6
Nizâr, an Arab ancestor, i. 9
Noah, i. 44, 87, 267, 279, 369, 407, 431, 432, 466; ii. 96, 196, 260, 304
Noah, the name of the seventy-first Sura, or chapter, of the Koran, i. 404
Nöldeke, Theodor, author of the “Beitrage zur Kenntness der Poesie der
alten Araber,” and other works, i. 388, 389
No‘mân ibn Beshîr, one of the Companions of the Prophet, and Governor
of Ḥimṣ [Emessa], i. 336
No‘mân, son of Munthîr, King of Hira, known as No‘mân Abû Ḳâbûs,
i. 385, 435, 501, 518, 519
No‘mân, son of Zowrâ, his use of a proverb, i. 455
Nonnosus, a Byzantine author, i. 491
Notes to the Assemblies of Ḥarîri, i. 265–540; ii. 187–310
Nowayri, an Arab author, i. 324
Nowfal, a man connected with a woman and a proverb i. 346
Numbers, Book of, i. 44, 406
Nûn, a letter of the Arabic alphabet, i. 53
Nushirvan, or Khosru Nushirvan, the Persian Sasanian monarch of great
fame, i. 344, 451
‘Obayd, a horse, i. 52
‘Obayd allah ibn Ziyâd, a supporter of the Omayyides, i. 458
‘Obayd allah, son of Ḥarîri, became chief Kadi of Basra, i. 38
‘Obayd ibn al Abraṣ, a poet killed by one of the Kings of Hira, and connected
with a proverb, i. 74, 385
Ockley, Simon, Orientalist and Historian, i. 333
Oḥud, Battle of, ii. 226, 245
‘Okâz, The fair of, i. 16, 387, 389, 475, 492, 538; ii. 291
‘Okbari, an Arab writer, i. 345, 346
‘Omân, a district of Arabia, i. 426, 441, 445, 446; ii. 93, 100, 238
‘Omar ibn ‘Abd al ‘Azîz, the Orthodox and the Saint, i. 334, 337, 358, 364,
458
‘Omar ibn al Khaṭṭâb, the second Khalifah, i. 3, 14, 16, 60, 93, 285, 288,
289, 307, 324, 364, 377, 390, 396, 406, 445, 455, 479; ii. 163, 226, 253,
255, 275, 306
Omayet ibn Abî ‘A’ith, a poet, i. 539
Omaymeh, a woman, the subject of some verses of Isḥâḳ ibn Khalaf,
i. 435
Omayyeh, House of, or the Omayyides, i. 17, 326, 364, 384, 458; ii. 247,
248
‘Onaynah, a person mentioned in a verse addressed to the Prophet by
‘Abbâs, son of Merdas and Khansâ, the Poetess, about some booty,
i. 52
Orfa, the ancient Edessa and Roha, a very old and important town, so
called by the Turks, i. 489
‘Orḳûb, a man proverbial among the Arabs for breaking his promises,
i. 184, 397
Oriental, i. v, vii, 453; ii. 209, 217, 309
Orientals, i. 1, 132, 145, 473; ii. 279
Orientalist, i. 46, 98, 453
Orientalists, i. 2
Oriental Translation Fund, Old and New Series, ii. vii, viii, x
Osmanlis, The modern, i. vi
‘Othmân bin ‘Offân, the third Khalifah, i. 93, 94, 280, 288, 326, 327, 364,
431, 493
‘Othrah, a tribe, i. 307
Owârah, Second day of, on which a great crime was committed by ‘Amr
ibn Hind, i. 361
Ows, an Arab ancestor and tribe, who, with his brother Khazraj, fixed
themselves at Yathrib, afterwards called Medina, i. 295, 397, 426
‘Ozza [Al], a goddess, one of the Arab idols, i. 404, 405
Palmer, E. H.: his translation of the Koran, ii. xi; his Arabic Grammar,
ii. 280
Palgrave, the traveller and author, i. 64, 321, 441, 504
Pandarus, of Trojan war renown, distinguished as an archer, i. 351
Paradise, 138, etc. See Appendix A
Paris, i. 459
Paris, of Trojan war renown, i. 91
Paronomasia, or a play upon words, i. 83–85, 87, 229, 234
Peace, City of, i.e., Bagdad, i. 207, 243, 391
Pearl, i. 151, 153, 208, 211; ii. 63, 101, 112, 143, 267
“Pearl, The, of the Diver,” a grammatical work by Ḥarîri, i. 12, 72, 73,
539
Pearls, i. 151, 154, 197, 204, 209, 216; ii. 246
Pehlvi, i. 33
Peiper, C. R. S., a translator, in 1832, into Latin of the greater part of
Ḥarîri’s Assemblies, i. 101; ii. 252
Pencil, i. 145, 147 note, 148–150, 340, 341; ii. 114, 116, 170
Pentateuch, The, i. 86, 312
Perceval, Caussin de, author of “Essai sur l’Histoire des Arabes,” and
other works, i. 279, etc. See Appendix A
Persia, i. 223, 332, 326, 358, 361; ii. 217
Persia, Western, i. 287; ii. 169
Persian, i. vi, 5, 33, etc. See Appendix A
Persian Gulf, i. 4, 441; ii. 93, 238, 241
Persians, i. vi, 31, etc. See Appendix A
Pharaoh, i. 211, 305, 314, 394, 409, 431, 438, 466, 499
Philologers, or Philologists, i. 7, 90; ii. 232
Philological, i. 68; ii. 1, 217
Phrases, i. 68–71, 74, 76, 243; ii. 89
Pilgrim, ii. 10, 31–33, 46, 47, 85, 161, 202, 278, 280
Pilgrimage, one of the five things on which Islâm is founded, i. 36, 39, 77,
130, 181, 316, 348, 392, 460, 492; ii. 31, 33–35, 37, 46, 142, 202, 204,
206, 245, 250, 279
Pilgrims, i. 77; ii. 31–33, 35, 125, 177, 184, 266, 306, 308, 310
Plagiarism, i. 30, 481–483
Pliny, i. 425
Pocock, Edward, a learned English Orientalist of the seventeenth century,
i. 325, 392, 404, 405, 436, 468
Poem, i. 41, 55, etc. See Appendix A
Poems, i. 14, 17, etc. See Appendix A
Poet, i. 8, 16, 28, etc. See Appendix A
Poetry, i. 7, 8, 13, etc. See Appendix A
Poets, i. 8, 13, etc. See Appendix A
Prayer, one of the five things on which Islâm is founded, i. 392, 410, 411,
462, 463; ii. 37, 42–44, 113, 165, 180, 188, 191, 199, 212, 236, 244, 251,
271, 275, 276, 280, 295, 297, 298, 305
Prayers, ii. 179–182, 191, 298, 299
Preface in nearly all Arabic works, i. 50
Preface of Chenery, i. v–x
Preface of Ḥarîri, i. 25, 29, 32, 37, 50, 75, 77, 103–107; and the notes thereon,
265–278, 329, 343, 348, 383, 475, 524; ii. 256, 274
Preserved Table, The, supposed to be a divine record on which all the
actions of mankind are written down, ii. 257
Preston, Reverend Theodore, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, translated
into English, in 1850, twenty of Ḥarîri’s Assemblies, i. 101; ii. 89,
109, 226, 227, 251, 252
Priam, the famous King of Troy, i. 91
Procopius, the Byzantine author, i. 491
Prophet, The, i.e., Mohammed, i. 4, 5, 16, etc. See Appendix A
Prophets, The, i. 104, 267, 268, 466, 469; ii. 96, 231
Prosody, i. 8, 45, 47, 48, 54, 55, 57, 100, 275; ii. 248
Proverb, i. 27, 29, etc. See Appendix A
Proverbial, i. 281, 285, etc. See Appendix A
Proverbs, i. 69, 70, etc. See Appendix A
Proverbs, Arab. These are quoted from Freytag’s Latin Edition in three
volumes, as follows:
Volume i. 281, 289, etc. See Appendix A
Volume ii. 273, 277, etc. See Appendix A
Volume Iii. See Appendix A
Proverbs, Book of, i. 88
Psalms, Book of, i. 44–46, 59, 85, 86, 88, 89
Purslane, or the plant Rijlah, a kind of bitter herb, ii. 103, 104, 245
Pyrenees, The, i. 67
Pythias, or Phintias, the Pythagorean, celebrated for his friendship with
Damon, i. 385
Quaraqir, a watering station, ii. 262, 263
Qutrub, a little animal always on the move, ii. 172, 286, 302
Râbi‘ah, daughter of Ishmael of the tribe Ḳays, a woman of Basra, celebrated
for her piety, i. 80; ii. 104, 246
Rabî‘ah, or Rabî‘at al Faras, an Arab ancestor and tribe, i. 9, 10, 29, 64,
448, 497, 527, 530. See Benû Rabî‘ah
Rabî‘ah, or Rabî‘at ibn Naṣr, a Jewish King of Yemen, to whom two
Diviners predicted the advent of Mohammed, i. 372, 373
Rabî‘ [Ar], a suburb of Bagdad, i. 244, 493
Rabî‘ [Ar], the chamberlain to Al Manṣûr, the second Abbaside Khalif,
i. 493. See Abû ’l Faḍl ar Rabî‘ ibn Yûnus
Rabî‘ ibn Ziyâd, a boon companion of No‘mân ibn al Munthir, King of
Hira, i. 501, 502
Rabbins, The, i. 85
Râḍi [Ar], the twentieth Abbaside Khalif, i. 470
Raf‘, or the use of the nominative and accusative case in certain Arabic
phrases, i. 243, 245, 249, 251. See Naṣb
Râfi‘ aṭ-Ṭâ’î, the Guide, ii. 262, 263
Raḥbah, a town on the Euphrates, the city of Mâ‘lik, the son of Ṭowk,
i. 158, 351
Raḳâsh, sister of Jathîmet al Abrash, King of Hira, i. 42; the story about
her, i. 494
Raḳîm [Ar], The men of, alluded to in the Koran, i. 414, 415
Raḳḳah, a town, i. 351
Ramaḍân, The, or fasting month. Fasting is one of the five things on
which Islâm is founded, i. 139, 392; ii. 44, 206, 307
Ramlah, a town, ii. 31, 141, 142
Rass, Men of, i. 431
Rawâḥat ibn ‘Abd al ‘Azîz, of the tribe of Sulaym, and first husband of
Khansâ, the Poetess, i. 389
Râwi, or reciter, i. 15–21, 62, 99, 178, 383, 384; ii. 24, 233
Rayy al Mahdîyeh, a place in Persia, i. 223, 224, 228, 364, 455, 459
Râzi [Ar], the Commentator, i. 24
Râzi, the derivative adjective of Rayy, i. 455
Razwa, name of a mountain near Medina, ii. 87, 232
Rebekah, i. 44
Reinaud, who, with Derenbourg, wrote the preface to the second edition
of De Sacy’s Ḥarîri, i. 3 note; his introduction to “Géographie
d’Abulféda,” ii. 310
Rejeb, sacred month of, i. 387, 388
Rejez, an Arabic metre, i. 12, 18, etc. See Appendix A
Reml, an Arabic metre, i. 349, 366
Renan, Ernest, author of the “Histoire des langues Semitiques” and
many other works, i. 311
Rhetoric, i. 63, 83, 99, 485, 486; ii. 72, 89, 217
Rhyme, or Rhythm, i. 48–54, etc. See Appendix A
Rhymed prose, i. 42, 48, 49, 51, 54, 55, 76, 163, 281, 309, 538; ii. 31, 58,
108
Ribâb, an Arab tribe, i. 428
Ribâb, son of Ṣaghr, and Diviner at Thamûd, i. 433
Ribâḥ ibn Murrah, the solitary survivor of the tribe of Ṭasm, i. 381
Riddle, i. 504, 514; ii. 14, 79, 114, 115, 119, 259
Riddles, i. 81, 106, 200, 243, 247, 248, 250, 274; ii. 74, 76–81, 113,
115, 140
Risâleh, a kind of ornate letter or address, i. 28, 271
Rodayneh, supposed wife of Samhar, a maker of lances, and both sold them,
i. 446
Rodwell, J. M., translator of the Koran, ii. xi, 208, 228, 232, 240, 256, 257,
276, 292, 296, 297, 301, 305, 307
Roha [Ar], name given by the Arab conquerors to Edessa, in Northern
Mesopotamia, a very ancient town, formerly known under various
names, i. 242, 488, 489
Roha ibn al Belendi ibn Mâlik, who is said to have given the name of
Roha to the above town, i. 489
Roman, i. 1, 74, 289
Romans, i. 5, 286, 289; ii. 8
Rome, i. 46, 92; ii. 8
Ruba‘î, or quatrain, one of the four kinds of Persian poetry, viz., the
Ghazal or ode, the Ḳaṣîdeh or elegy, and the Mesnevi, i. 57
Rubeh, the Philologist, i. 356
Rückert, Frederick, the German Poet and Orientalist, translator of Ḥarîri’s
Assemblies, a very free translation, i. 2, 158, 169, 328, 342, 348, 354;
ii. 141, 147, 230
Rûm, People of, so the Arabs call the Byzantines, i. 22, 24, 442, 466
Rustem, a Persian hero, i. 31, 539
Ruth, Book of, i. 425
Saba, The bands of, an allusion to the bursting of the dyke of Mârib, i. 204,
288, 422
Saba, The country of, or Sheba, i. 291, 422, 424, 442; ii. 245
Saba, the son of Yashjob, the son of Ya‘rob (the first person who spoke
Arabic), the son or descendant of Ḳaḥṭân, i. 422, 423, 426
Sâbât, a place where lived a cupper, ii. 159, 294
Sabæans, The, i. 426
Ṣabbân [Aṣ], a commentator, i. 315
Sacy, Sylvestre de, the second edition of his Ḥarîri, edited by MM.
Reinaud and Derenbourg, i. 3 note; ii. 196, 203, 223, 230, 232, 250,
252, 266, 267, 290, 309
Sacy, Sylvestre de, translator of some of Ḥarîri’s Assemblies, with Commentaries
on them, and author of “Mémoires sur l’Histoire des
Arabes avant Mahomet,” “Chrestomathie Arabe,” and other works,
i. 3 note, 12, 24, etc. See Appendix A
Ṣâd, a letter of the Arabic alphabet, and how used, ii. 147, 152
Ṣa‘dah, a town in Yemen, i. 79; ii. 83, 88, 224
Sa‘dân, a plant, i. 305
Sa‘d at Taftâzâni, a commentator, i. 99
Sa‘d ibn Abî Waḳḳas, an early convert to Islâm, and Arab General, i. 285,
472
Sa‘d ibn al Hashraji, grandfather of Ḥâtim Ṭay, ii. 278
Sa‘d, son of Dabbah, connected with a proverb, i. 474
Sa‘d, son of Shems, of the tribe of Jarm: the story about him, i. 528
Sa‘di, the Persian Poet, i. 5, 316; ii. 235
Ṣafâ, Mount, near Mecca, ii. 34, 280
Ṣâfir, or whistler, a word with several disputed meanings, ii. 104, 246
Ṣafwân ibn al Mo‘aṭṭal, the person who found ‘Ayisheh asleep in the
desert, i. 430. For the whole story of the slander about her, see
Mirkhond, Part ii., vol. ii., pp. 435–442
Saḥbân Wâ’il, the most celebrated preacher and orator of the early days
of Islâm, i. 197, 200, 309, 310, 322, 417, 527; ii. 272
Sâḥib al Khabar, the official title of Ḥarîri, i. 11
Sâḥib ibn ‘Abbâd, a prince to whose court Badî‘ az Zemân, or Hamadâni,
went, i. 271
Sahl, or Sahil ibn Hârûn, a poet who wrote an address in praise of glass,
i. 229, 434
Sa‘îd ibn al-Âs: when a boy Mahommed gave him a robe, ii. 140, 277, 278
Sa‘îd ibn Salm, a very stingy man, ii. 293
Sajâḥ, or Sajâḥi, the Prophetess, i. 495; ii. 103, 245. For her story, see
Mirkhond, Part ii., vol. iii., pp. 23–28
Sakâbi, the name of a horse, ii. 66, 214
Saḳâlib, or Slaves, i. 466
Ṣakhr, a warrior, and brother of Khansâ, the Poetess, of the tribe of
Sulaym, i. 80, 180, 387–391; ii. 104, 246
Ṣakhrah, the wife or sister of Ḥoṣayn, who was killed by Al Akhnas: the
story about it, i. 476
Ṣakhr ibn Nahshal: the story about him, i. 299
Sale, George, translator of the Koran, ii. xi
Ṣalâh ad dîn, or Saladin, the Sultan, i. 11
Ṣâliḥ, the Prophet, sent to warn the people of Thamûd, i. 267, 268, 415,
432; his pedigree, i. 432, 433
Salmân, the Persian, an early convert to Islâm and intimate associate of
Mohammed’s, ii. 84, 225, 226
Salsabîl, a fountain in Paradise, ii. 30
Salutations, or salâm, i. 195, 413
Samarcand, i. 344; the Sughd of, i. 368; ii. 8, 194, 310
Samaritans, i. 88
Samhar, a maker of lances, or perhaps a place in Abyssinia where they
are made, i. 215, 446
Ṣamṣâmah, the name of a sword, ii. 157, 292
Samson, i. 86
Samuel, Book of, i. 373
Samuel ibn ‘Âdiyâ, a Jew, and an exemplar of good faith among the
Arabs, i. 243, 490–492
San‘â, a town in Yemen, i. 108, 278, 280, 466; ii. 211, 224, 256
Sanscrit, i. 33
Sarâb, a she-camel: the story about her, i. 528, 530
Sarâb, or resemblance of water in the desert, ii. 191
Sarah, wife of Abraham, i. 87
Sarḥah tree, ii. 3
Sarî‘, an Arabic metre, i. 292, 384, 448, 469
Ṣa‘ṣa‘ah, or Ṣa‘ṣa‘at ibn Najiyeh, grandfather of the Poet Farazdaḳ, i. 349,
436
Sâsân al Akbar, son of Bahman, son of Isfendiyâr, son of Kushtâsif, a
Prince of Western Persia, and the reputed chief of all the beggars,
i. 83; the story about him, i. 287; ii. 27, 169, 171, 172
Sâsân, or Sassanids, one of the royal dynasties of Persia, i. 288
Sâsân, The race and people of, also applied generally to the race of beggars,
i. 113, 215; ii. 169, 170, 175
Sâsâni, a beggar, i. 288
Sâsâni phrases, i.e., the cant of beggars, mountebanks, prestigiators, and
the like, i. 76
Satan, i. 325, 355, 398, 450; ii. 242, 271–273, 282, 284, 296, 309
Satans, ii. 297
Saṭîḥ, the Diviner, is said to have foretold the advent of Mohammed,
i. 210, 371, 372, 423, 438
Saul, King of Israel, i. 453
Sâweh, a town between Rayy and Hamadân, i. 163, 164, 364, 499
Sayf ad Dowleh, the Arab Prince of Hilleh, i. 462
Sayl al ‘Arim, or the flood of the mounds or dams, i. 41, 424
Schildburg, a town in Germany, ii. 146
Schmölder’s “Écoles philosophiques chez les Arabes,” i. 468
Schultens, Albert, a German Pastor, Orientalist, and Critic, i. viii, 101, 294,
314, 377, 384, 496, 522
Scirtus, an ancient river on which Edessa was situated, now called Daysan,
i. 489
Scotch, ii. 147
Scripture, i. 490
Scriptures, i. 32
Seasons of rain, wind, or heat: their names, etc., i. 443, 444
Sejelmâseh, a place to the south of Mount Atlas, i. 344
Sejestan, i. 309
Seleucidæ, The, i. 489
Seljuk, the name of a powerful Tartar chief, whose descendants founded
the three dynasties called after him that reigned in Persia, Kirman,
and Anatolia, i. 3, 455
Semâweh, the desert which lies between Syria and the Euphrates, called
the Syrian Desert, i. 168, 170, 373
Semites, The, i. 434
Semitic, i. 43, 45, etc. See Appendix A
Serûj, a city in the neighbourhood of Edessa, i. 13, 21, etc. See Appendix
A
Serûji, The, i.e., Abû Zayd, i. 24, 150, 196, 215, 222, 344; ii. 14, 15, 17, 81,
89, 90, 96, 102, 112, 141, 144, 163, 176, 195
Seth, son of Adam, i. 337; ii. 170, 300
Sha‘b, a tribe in Yemen, ii. 247
Sha‘bi [Ash], or Amir ibn Abdallah, of the tribe Sha‘b in Yemen, a great
scholar and lawyer, knowing the Koran by heart, i. 81; ii. 104, 247
Shâfi‘î [Ash], the Imâm, i. 78, 269, 329, 358, 391; ii. 57, 192, 212, 250
Shâfi‘î, one of the four Mohammedan rituals, i. 34, 358
Shah Nameh, the Persian epic, by Firdousi, the Persian Poet, i. 451
Shahrestani [Ash], a writer on religions, i. 327, 468
Shaibah, an Arab ancestor, described, ii. 204
Shakespear, ii. 102
Shamar, one of the Tobba‘ Kings of Yemen, ii. 310
Sham [Ash], a region of the earth settled by Shem, son of Noah, i. 466;
ii. 31
Shanfara [Ash], the Poet, and celebrated for his speed of foot, i. 340, 353,
357
Shann: the story about him, ii. 104, 248, 249
Sha‘ûb, a name of death, meaning the “Severer” or “Separator,” ii. 3, 189
Shawâhid, or proofs of lexicography and grammar, i. 67, 275
Shaykh, The, i. 29, 116, 130, 167, 176, 187, 188, 216, 222, 242, 315, 405;
ii. 4, 12, 29, 61, 63, 106, 108, 111, 112, 120, 124, 130, 132, 141, 143–146,
148–151, 154, 156–162, 176, 250, 272
Shaykh Abû Ḥâmid al Isfarayni, a jurisconsult, i. 358
Sheba, grandson of Abraham, i. 427. See Genesis xxv. 3
Sheba, or Saba, Queen of, i. 379, 415; ii. 245. See Bilkîs
Sheba, son of Raamah, grandson of Cush, i. 426, 427. See Genesis x. 7
Sheba, son of Joktan, whom the Arabs identify with Ḳaḥṭân, i. 426. See
Genesis x. 28
Shebâm, Vines of, a place celebrated for its wines, i. 374
Sheddâd, a poet and writer of an address in praise of gold, i. 229, 434
Sheddâd, father of ‘Antarah, the warrior poet, i. 317
Sheddâd, son of ‘Ad, and builder of Irem with the columns, i. 368, 441,
468
Shem, one of the sons of Noah, i. 228, 279, 369, 432, 466, 479
Sheref ad Dîn Abû Naṣr Anûshirwân al Iṣfahani, the Wazir, and the
traditional patron of Ḥarîri, i. 24, 26
Sheref ad Dîn, an author, i. 530
Sherîshï, the Andalusian Commentator, whose full name is Abû ‘Abbâs
Aḥmed ibn ‘Abd al Mu’min al Ḳaysî ash Sherîshi, so called from
having been born at Xeres, i. 38, 69, 146, etc. See Appendix A
Shiḥr [Ash], a place in Yemen, i. 441, 445, 517
Shiḳḳ, the Diviner, one of the most famous personages of ancient Arabia,
i. 371, 372, 423
Shiraz, i. 358, 498; ii. 71, 217
Shîrîn, a famous beauty, wife of the Khosru Perwez, and often alluded to
by the poets and romancists, i. 80, 451; ii. 104, 245
Sho‘ayb or Jethro, a Prophet according to Moslem belief, i. 267, 268
Shylock, ii. 102
Sîbawayh or Sîbawayhi, a Persian, but great Arab scholar and grammarian,
author of the Kitâb, i. 65, 72, 245, 249, 301, 497–499, 503,
509; ii. 245, 286
Sidney, Sir Philip, at Zutphen, i. 471
Ṣiffîn, Battle of, i. 7, 327, 458; ii. 242
Sikbâj, a kind of food, i. 450, 451
Simon, an Apostle, i. 531
Sîn, a letter of the Arabic alphabet, and how used, ii. 146, 151, 152
Sinân, the subject of a proverb, i. 330
Sind, i. 467
Sinjâr, a city of the Diyâr Rabî‘ah, i. 206, 207
Ṣinn and Ṣinnabar, the name of the first two days of a week in the early
spring, which brings back the winter’s cold before the warm weather
sets in, i. 254, 518
Sirâh, the same as Mina in the Nejd, i. 426
Ṣirâṭ, the narrow path or bridge between heaven and hell according to
Moslem belief, i. 166, 367; ii. 11, 192
Sîrat ar Resûl, the title of Ibn Hishâm’s Biography of Mohammed, and
means literally the conduct or way of living of the Prophet, i. 371,
373, 430, 440, 539
Sirius, the star, i. 128, 313, 443
Slane, McGuckin de, the translator of Ibn Khallikân, i. 94 note, 271, 293,
491, 492
Sleepers, The seven, i. 31, 399, 414, 450
Sofyân ibn al Abrad al Kelbi, an Arab General, i. 327
Sohâ, a star, i. 242, 489, 490; ii. 56, 76, 221
Sohayl ibn ‘Abbâd the Râwi, or reciter in Nasif’s Assemblies, i. 99
Sohayl, the star Canopus, i. 242, 489; ii. 221
Sokman, a Turkish chief, i. 21
Solomon, i. 267, 291, 348, 373, 379, 415; ii. 77, 222
South, The, ii. 265
Spain, i. 5, 34, 352, 370, 410
Spanish, i. 357
Spider, The, name of the 29th Sura, or chapter, of the Koran, i. 407
Spotted, The, a composition or address giving the name to Ḥarîri’s
26th Assembly, i. 258, 261, 264, 524, 532
Star, i. 313; ii. 137, 141, 279
Stars and constellations, i. 313, 314, 443–445; ii. 5, 19, 21, 30, 32, 44, 75,
80, 126, 133, 138, 159, 196, 232, 296, 297, 304
Steiner’s ‘Die Mu‘taziliten oder die Freidenker in Islâm,’ i. 468
Steingass, Dr. F., the translator of the last 24 Assemblies of Ḥarîri, ii.
vii–x
St. John, Church of, in Damascus, i. 369
Style of the Assemblies, i. 83, 105, 106; ii. 90
Su‘âd, a name used by the Arabs to signify a cruel and capricious mistress,
i. 62 note, 245, 496
Sua‘yd, son of Ḍabbah, connected with a proverb, and the story about him,
i. 474, 475
Su‘da, a woman, i. 106
Sûdân, The, i. 344
Ṣûfî, i.e., an ascetic and mystic, ii. 309
Ṣûfi metonymies, i. 450
Ṣuḥâr, a town in the district of ‘Omân, ii. 95, 238
Suidas, the supposed compiler of a Greek Lexicon, i. 91
Sulayk, a vagrant robber and very fast runner, i. 159; the story about him,
i. 352, 353
Sulaym, Tribe of, i. 387–389. See Benû Sulaym
Sulayma, wife of Ṣakhr, the warrior, i. 388, 389
Sulaymân, the seventh Omayyide Khalif, i. 344, 400
Sulekah, a black slave, mother of Sulayk, i. 352
Sullân, Battle of, in which, under Rabî‘ah, the sons of Ma‘add defeated the
people of Yemen, i. 488
Summary by Chenery of the last 24 Assemblies of Ḥarîri, i. 75–83;
ii. 113, 146
Sunneh, i.e., the ordinances and precepts of Tradition only, i. 411, 412,
490. See Farḍ
Sunni, or orthodox sect of Mahommedanism, i. 39
Ṣûr [Tyre], ii. 24
Surahbîl, an ancient Arabian monarch, and the builder of the Ghomdân,
which see, i. 279
Sura, or chapter of the Koran, i. 31, 52, 53, etc. See Appendix A
Suras, or chapters of the Koran, i. 16, 51–53, 95, 96, 301, 464
Ṣurr-durr, a poet, ii. 201
Sûs, the ancient Susa, i. 258, 260, 525
Suwâ‘, an Arab idol of the people of Noah, mentioned in the Koran, ii. 20,
196
Suwá, a watering station, ii. 262, 263
Suyûti, the Egyptian author, i. 62 note
Syria, i. 3, 4, 13, etc. See Appendix A
Syriac, i. vi, 66, 90, 97, 340, 489, 514
Syrian, i. 34, 90, 289, 338
Syrians, i. 88, 90, 283
Ta’abbaṭa Sherran, an Arab poet of the early age, and a great runner,
i. 317, 353, 398, 453, 537
Tabâbi‘ah, the descendants of Tobba‘, i. 279
Tabaqah, ii. 104; the story about her, ii. 248, 249
Ṭabari, the Arab Historian, i. 316, etc. See Appendix A
Tâbi‘, or one who had conversed with the Companions of Mohammed,
ii. 247
Tabrizi, a Commentator, ii. 212, 241
Tâbûk, Expedition to, ii. 57
Taghlib, an Arab ancestor and tribe, i. 10, 376, 448. See Benû Taghlib
Tâ’if, a place near Mecca, ii. 289
Ṭâ’i‘ l’illah [Aṭ], the twenty-fourth Abbaside Khalif, i. 456, 457
Taim Allah ibn Sa‘labah, an Arab tribe, and the story connected with it,
ii. 291, 292
Tajanni, a woman, ii. 149
Tales of pleasure after pain, i. 260, 532
Ṭalḥah bin Abdallah, an early convert to Islâm, but fought later on with
Zobayr and Ayisheh against ‘Ali, i. 327, 472
Ṭalḥah, The family of, at Basra, noted for its generosity, i. 309
Ṭalḥat aṭ Ṭalḥât, Governor of Sejestan, i. 309
Ṭalḥat ibn Ṭâhir, a prince of Khorasan, i. 449
alkhîs al Miftâḥ, a work on rhetoric by Jelâl ad dîn Mohammed, i. 99
Tâmir, the Jumper, ii. 104, 247
Tanîs, a town, ii. 108, 109, 112, 252, 253
Ṭanṭarâni [Aṭ], author of a poem, i. 488
Tanûkhiyeh, The, an old Arab tribe, i. 494
Ṭarafeh, a pre-Islâmite Poet, and author of one of the Mo‘allaḳât, i. 14, 16,
56, etc. See Appendix A
“Ta‘rîfât,” a work by Jorjani, i. 266, 273, etc. See Appendix A
Tartary, i. 520
Ṭasm, an Arab ancestor and tribe, i. 381, 466
Tassy, Garcin de, the French Orientalist, i. 277, 481, 486
Ṭawîl, an Arabic metre, i. 55, 56, 278, 336, 439, 460, 485, 487
Ṭay, Tribe of, i. 292, 348, 426. See Benû Ṭay
Ṭaybeh was the name which the city of Yathrib received from
Mohammed, but afterwards called Medinet an Nabî, i. 257, 522;
ii. 37, 38
Ṭaylasân, The, or cloak of a dervish or preacher, i. 459
Tebriz, a town, i. 80; ii. 101, 102, 106, 108, 141
Te Deum, The, i. 442
Tejnîs, i.e., paronomasia, or alliteration, or homogeneity in sound or in
letters between each two successive words, i. 82, 238, 485, 486, 500,
532; ii. 146
Tekoah, i. 87. See Jeremiah vi. 1
Tekwîr [At], or “The Folded-up,” the name of the eighty-first Sura, or
chapter, of the Koran, i. 53
Temâ’im, i.e., amulets or beads or necklaces, i. 113, 285
Temîm, an Arab ancestor and tribe, i. 10, 94, 318; ii. 83, 214, 215, 231.
See Benû Temîm
Temîmi, i.e., of the tribe of Temîm, ii. 83, 87, 225, 231
Tesnîm, a fountain in Paradise, i. 208, 430
Testament, Old, i. 43, 89, 279
Teutonic, i. 85
Thaghâm tree, ii. 27
Thaḳîf, a tribe, i. 64, 405
Tha‘labeh, son of Amr ibn Amir Muzayḳîyâ: the story of his migration,
i. 288, 289, 425, 426
Tha‘labî [Ath], the Author, i. 270–272
Thames, The, ii. 306
Thamûd, People of, destroyed by God for their wickedness, i. 31, 208, 373,
431–433, 441. Compare the Koran, Tabari, and Mirkhond
Thamûd, son of ‘Âbar, son of Aram, son of Shem, son of Noah, an Arab
ancestor and tribe, i. 432, 466
Tharîd, an Arab dish made of meat, milk, and bread, highly esteemed,
i. 382, 383, 429, 430
Thât al Athl, The Day of, i.e., the day on which a celebrated fight between
certain Arab tribes occurred, i. 388
Thât al Koṣûr, the old name of the town Ma‘arrat an No‘mân, in the
north of Syria, i. 336
Thawwab, son of ‘Amr, the opponent of Ṣâliḥ, the Prophet at Thamûd,
i. 433
Theocritus, the celebrated Greek Poet, i. 91
Theology, i. 63
Thobyân, an Arab tribe, i. 316, 317, 382
“Thousand and One Nights,” i. 329, 440. See “Arabian Nights”
Thu’l Ḳarnayn, a supposed prophet, and mentioned in the Koran, xviii.,
i. 85, 93, but who he was is doubtful. There was another of the same
name, the one called “The Greater,” the other “The Lesser,” two-horned,
i. 31
Thû’l Kefl, the prophet mentioned in the Koran, i. xxi, 85, but who he
really was is doubtful, i. 267, 268
Thunder, the name of the thirteenth Sura, or chapter, of the Koran, i. 409
Ṭîb, a town, ii. 15, 24
Tiflis, the well-known town in the Caucasus, ii. 50, 58, 208
Tigris, The, i. 9, 380, 391, 399, 445; ii. 104, 194, 245
Tihâmeh, a district of Arabia, i. 372, 428, 527; ii. 70, 125, 178
Timur, or Tamerlane, History of, by Ibn Arabshah, i. 50, 98, 489
Tobba‘, name of the Himyaritic Kings of Yemen, i. 279, 372, 381; ii. 184,
310
Tobba‘, People of, i. 431
Ṭofayl ibn Dallâl, the Dârimi, supposed to be a celebrated dinner-hunter,
and father of all intrusive guests, also connected with a proverb,
“More intrusive than Ṭofayl,” i. 195, 215, 407, 411, 495; ii. 221
Ṭofayli, a jargon, or kind of language, applied to various kinds of food,
also an intruder uninvited while people are eating or drinking, i. 214,
407, 408, 411, 450
Toghril Beg, the grandson of Seljuk, i. 3
Tom Thumb, i. 59
Tophet, i. 393
Tow’am the Yeshkari, a poet, i. 484, 485
Ṭoways, a musician and singer, i. 437
Toothpick, i. 140; its qualities described, i. 144, 153; ii. 182, 244
Tradition, i. 20, 24–27, etc. See Appendix A
Traditional, i. 100, 267, 371, 421, 463; ii. 271, 298
Traditionary, i. 41, 99
Traditions, i. 6, 14, 29, etc. See Appendix A
Translation, i. 45, 49, 70, etc. See Appendix A
Translations, i. 45, 90, 340
Translations of Ḥarîri into Latin, English, German, French, etc., i. 101,
102
Translator, i. 1, 101, 275; ii. 89, 132, 147, 258
Translators, i. 90; ii. x
Transliteration, i. x; ii. ix, x
Transoxiana, or Mawarannahr, i. 344; ii. 306
Trojan, i. 92
Troy, i. 91
Tumâḍir, daughter of ‘Amr, son of Ḥârith, son of Sherîd . . . son of
Sulaym, and sister of the warriors Ṣakhr and Mu‘âwiyeh, i. 387, 390;
ii. 147, 246. See Khansâ [Al], which was her bye-name, or nickname
Tunis, i. 410
Ṭûr, Mount, ii. 19
Turkish, i. vi, 4, 84; ii. 252
Turkoman, i. 4
Turkomans, i. 21
Turks, The, i. 3, 4, 466, 489
Ṭûs, a town in Khorasan, i. 258, 260, 261, 526
Tyre [Ṣûr], a city, ii. 24
Tzetzes, The Byzantines, two brothers, Isaac and John, i. 92 and note,
539
‘Ufâr tree, ii. 233
Umaiyah bîn Aṣ Ṣalt, a poet, ii. 215
‘Umarân [Al], a term applied to the two immediate successors of Mohammed,
viz., Abû Bekr and ‘Omar, ii. 253
‘Umay, a famous depredator, ii. 189
Umm Jemîl, wife of Abû Lahab, i. 439
Umm Salamah, the sixth wife of Mohammed, ii. 20
Ur of the Chaldees, i. 488
Uwais, or Uways al Karani, the most eminent ascetic and devotee of
Kufa, ii. 100, 242
‘Uzrah, an Arab tribe, ii. 143, 280. See Benû ‘Uzrah
‘Uzrî, i.e., of the tribe of ‘Uzrah, ii. 255
Venetian, i. 341
“Venice, Merchant of,” ii. 102
Verses indited or recited by Abu Zayd, i. 110–112, 115–117, etc. See
Appendix A
Verses by his pupils, ii. 148–154
Verses by his son, i. 148, 184, 239, 240; ii. 65, 66, 68, 158
Verses by his young wife, ii. 106, 142
Verses by the father of Akhzam, ii. 278
Verses of Ḥârith, son of Hammam, i. 114
Verses of the Generous Entertainer, ii. 133
Verses of the Kadi, ii. 125
Verses of the Kadi Ibn Qitri, ii. 167
Verses of the Poet Abû Nuwas, ii. 299
Verses of the Poet Abû ‘Obâdeh, i. 114, 115
Verses of the Poet Abû ’l Atâhiyah, ii. 228, 253, 254
Verses of the Poet Abû ’l Ḳâsim as Sâlimî, ii. 238
Verses of the Poet Abû ’t Taiyib, ii. 238
Verses of the Poet Abû ’sh Shamaqmaq, ii. 293
Verses of the Poet Afwah al Awadi, ii. 230
Verses of the Poet Akhṭal, ii. 227
Verses of the Poet Farazdaḳ, i. 318, 350; ii. 225
Verses of the Poet Ṣurr-Durr, ii. 201
Verses of the Poet Ibn Ar Rumi, ii. 297
Verses of the Poet Ibn Ḳanbar, ii. 267
Verses of the Poet Imr al Kays, i. 374; ii. 267
Verses of the Poet Iṣhâḳ ibn Khalaf, i. 435; ii. 209
Verses of the Poet Jerîr, ii. 225
Verses of the Poet Ka‘b ibn Zohayr, ii. 305
Verses of the Poet Kaṭâmi, ii. 241
Verses of the Poet Komayt [Al] ibn Zayd, ii. 242
Verses of the Poet Laqît, ii. 293
Verses of the Poet Mutenebbi, ii. 193, 238
Verses of the Poet Nâbighah, ii. 190, 289, 308
Verses of the Poet Tarafeh, i. 284, 359, 360, 380; ii. 304
Verses of the Poet Zohayr, ii. 212
Verses of the Poet Zohayr bin Jinab al Kalbi, ii. 237
Verses of the Poet Zû’l Rummah, ii. 284
Verses of various Poets, i. 273, 280, 309, etc. See Appendix A
Versicle, i. 47, 48
Versicles, i. 40, 41, 43, 45, 47, 51–53, 297
Versification, i. 52–54, 57, 126, 366; ii. 156, 289
Victory, the name of the forty-eighth Sura, or chapter, of the Koran, i. 213
Wabâr, a region between Yabrîn and Yemen, said to be inhabited by
Jinn, i. 403, 479
Wabâr, son of Irem, son of Shem, i. 479
Wadi Moḥassir, near Mina, i. 342
Wâdi‘ah, son of ‘Amr Muzayḳîyâ, i. 426
Wadd, an idol of the people of Noah, and alluded to in the Koran, ii. 20,
96, 197
Wâfir, an Arabic metre, i. 55, 56, 496
Wâḥidi [Al], an Arab Author, according to whom there are four gardens,
or paradises of the earth, as named, i. 368
Waḥshî, the negro slave who killed Hamzah at the battle of Ohud, and
Musaylimeh, in Yemâmeh, ii. 245
Waḳwâḳ, The island or country of, i. 467
Wâ’il, an Arab ancestor, i. 448, 528
Wâ’il, son of Ḥojr, a Kayl, or prince, who made his submission to
Mohammed, i. 438
Wâṣil ibn ‘Aṭâ, the founder of the sect of the Mu‘tazilûn, or Seceders, and
a lisper, i. 464, 467, 468
Wâsiṭ, a town between Kufa and Basra, ii. 14, 15, 194
Wâsiṭi, i.e., of Wasit, proverb and story about it, ii. 194
Wâthiḳ [Al], the ninth Abbaside Khalif, i. 497
Wazîr, i. 5, 24–26, 28, 29, 469–471, 493, 526; ii. 155, 188, 201
Weil, Dr. Gustav, German Orientalist and Historian, i. 5 note, 327, 471,
493; ii. 255, 283
Welîd [Al] ibn ‘Abd el Melik, the sixth Omayyide Khalif, i. 17, 65, 344,
369, 383, 458, 520
Welîd ibn Moghayrah, a man much respected by the Koraysh, and an
opponent of Mohammed’s, i. 415; ii. 292
Welîd ibn ‘Oḳbah, connected with a proverb, i. 324
Welîd [Al] ibn Yezîd, the eleventh Omayyide Khalif, i. 437
Wellington, Duke of, i. 71
West, The, i. 1, 3, 164, 194, 204, 262, 304, 410; ii. 57, 138, 171, 179, 265,
286, 308
Western, i. 23
Wine, i. 173, 174, 180, 188, 244, 248, 485, 495; ii. 8, 13, 14, 21, 47, 50,
56, 71, 72, 75–77, 112, 133, 136, 163, 166, 219, 220, 222, 223, 259, 276
Wolf’s Tail, The, i.e., the false or lying dawn, i. 162, 358
Wüstenfeld, Henry Frederick, German Orientalist and Historian, i. 373
Xeres, the town in Spain, i. 265
Xerxes, i. 92
Yabrîn, a town, and a desolate region in Southern Arabia, said to be
inhabited by Jinn, i. 446, 479; ii. 123, 265
Yaghûth, one of the false gods, or idols, mentioned in the Koran, i. 404
Yaḥya ibn Khâlid, the Bermeki, Wazir to Hârûn ar Reshîd, the fifth
Abbaside Khalif, i. 72
Yâjûj, or Gog, i. 466
Yarbû‘, Tribe of, i. 495, 518
Ya‘rob, said to be the first man who spoke Arabic, i. 86, 426, 466
Yashjob, son of Ya‘rob, i. 426
Ya Sin, the name of the thirty-sixth Sura, or chapter, of the Koran, ii. 256
Yathrib, or Medina, i. 295, 397, 428, 522; ii. 57
Yathrib, or Yatrib, a place near Hojr, in Yamâmeh, i. 397
Yemâmeh, a town and district of Arabia to the East of Mecca, i. 397, 479;
ii. 156, 262, 265, 290, 291, 297
Yemen, i. 10, 64, etc. See Appendix A
Yezîd i., the second Omayyide Khalif, i. 458
Yezîd ii., the ninth Omayyide Khalif, i. 485
Yorkshire, ii. 308
Yûnus ibn Ḥabîb, the instructor of Sîbawayh, the Grammarian, i. 498
Zâ, a letter of the Arabic alphabet, use of which is explained with Zâd,
ii. 147, 153, 154, 289
Zabîd, a city in Yemen, ii. 62, 63, 211
Zacharias, a prophet according to the Moslem belief, i. 267; ii. 223
Zâd, a letter of the Arabic alphabet, use of which is explained, ii. 147, 153,
154, 289
Zafâr, a place, i. 279
Zakât, or legal alms, ii. 46, 48, 91, 199
Zalim ibn Ṣarrâq, or Ṣâriq, whose bye-name was Abu Sufrah, ii. 255
Zamakhshari, or Jâr Allah, the Commentator, on the Koran, i. 39, 65,
97, 316, 500, 513, 521, 532; ii. 307
Zamzam Well, ii. 34
Zarḳâ’ Al Yemâmeh, a woman celebrated for her powers of eyesight, and
said to be the first who used koḥl, or collyrium, for the eyelids, i. 296,
381, 382; ii. 181, 297, 309
Zarîfeh, or Zarîfet al Khayr, a Divineress, the wife of Amr ibn Amir
Muzaykîyâ. She had a dream about the breaking of the dyke of
Mareb, i. 41, 42, 48, 372, 373, 423
Zayd, a name used in a grammatical example, ii. 272
Zayd, a youth, and supposed son of Abû Zayd, i. 130
Zayd ibn Arḳam, the Traditionist, ii. 298
Zayd ibn Thâbit, said to be the first Editor of the Koran, i. 93
Zayd, the adopted son of Mohammed, i. 307; ii. 299
Zayd to ‘Amr, a phrase meaning from one person to another, i. 257,
522
Zaynab, wife of Zayd above mentioned, divorced by him, and afterwards
married to Mohammed, his seventh wife, i. 307
Zaynab, a woman, ii. 150
Zayn al ‘Âbidîn, son of Al Ḥosayn, son of ‘Ali, i. 350
Zebbâ [Az], a Queen, wife of Jathimet al Abrash, i. 73, 80, 277, 382;
ii. 104, 190, 246
Zebbâ, wife of Al Ḥârith ibn Sulayk, the Asadi, i. 408
Zenj, The, a black race, i. 467
Zerenj, Castle of, i. 309
Zillah, wife of Lamech, i. 43
Zindîḳ, or Freethinker, i. 493
Ziyâd, a scamp, ii. 196
Zobaydeh, wife of Hârûn ar Reshîd, i. 80; ii. 104, 245
Zobayr [Az] bin Al-Awâm, an early convert to Islâm, joined ‘Âyisheh
and Ṭalḥah bin Abd allah in the rebellion against ‘Ali, i. 327, 472
Zodiac, Signs of the, i. 313, 314; ii. 234
Zoharah, the woman who seduced Hârût and Mârût, i. 434
Zohayr bin Janab al Kalbi, the warrior poet, ii. 237
Zohayr ibn Abi Sulme, the pre-Islamite poet, and author of one of the
Mo‘allaḳât, i. 56, 306, 400, 460; ii. 212
Zonâm, a flute-player, i. 209, 438
Zowrâ, a name applied to the Tigris in the neighbourhood of Bagdad, and
to the eastern part of the city itself, i. 176, 380
Zû’l Rummah, a poet, ii. 284
Zull, son of Zull, i.e., Nobody, son of Nobody, ii. 18, 195