Baalbekk, 529
Baba Ja'far, 260
Baba Kamal of Jand, 493
Baba Tahir 'Uryan (quatrain
writer), 246, 259-261, 263
Babar, 353
Babel, 30
Babis (sect of the —), 41, 70,
89, 187, 202, 460
“Baboo Persian,” 353
Babylon, 329
Bacher, 400, 401, 402, 403, 408,
411
Badakhshan, 126, 321, 509
Badayi (of Sa'di), 532, 534,
536, 537, 538
Badihi-i-Sajawandi (Persian
poet), 256
Badi'u'z-Zaman-Hamadhani,
22, 87, 88, 94, 112, 113, 346,
347, 359, 389
Badr (Fatimid general), 203
Badru'd-Din Lulu (Atabek
of Mawsil), 460
Badru'd-Din, Qadi — (victim
of Mongol massacre at
Bukhara) 438
Ibn Badrun, 354
Bagastâna, 284, 405
Bagh-i-Firdaws, 138
-Baghawi, -Farra al —, 299,
354
Baghdad, 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14,
29, 90, 92, 93, 104, 114, 165,
169, 172, 173, 176, 179, 182,
183, 184, 186, 192, 195, 196,
199, 203, 210, 213, 220, 227,
228, 294, 295, 300, 301, 303,
304, 311, 312, 355, 358, 361,
362, 397, 406, 421, 426, 430,
436, 442, 443, 446, 449, 451,
453, 455, 460, 461, 462, 463,
464, 465, 467, 480, 481, 485,
487, 496, 497, 508, 515, 527,
528, 533, 535, 536
Baghdad during Abbasid
Caliphate (by le Strange),
361
Bahar, Temple of —, 54
Baharistan (of Jami), 243, 381
Baha'u'd-Din Abu Bakr Say-
yidu'r-Ru'asa, 414
Baha'u'd-Din Juwayni, 453
Baha'u'd-Din Sultan Walad,
515, 519
Baha'u'd-Din Walad, 493, 515
Baha'u'd-Dawla (Buwayhid),
141
Baha'u'llah (Mirza Husayn
'Ali), 70, 89
Bahram Chubin, 91, 113
Bahram Gur (Sasanian king),
91, 408, 409, 411
Bahram-nama (= Haft Pay-
kar, q.v.), 408
Bahrami (poet), 20, 115, 116,
156
Bahramshah b. Ibrahim of
Ghazna, 297, 305, 306, 317,
318, 319, 341, 349
Bahru'l-Haqa'iq (by Najmu'd-
Din Daya), 496
Bahura (sect), 201
Baju Noyan, 461
-Bakharzi, Abu'l-Qasim 'Ali
b. -Hasan b. Abi Tayyib —,
100, 114, 256, 355-357
Bakhshis (Mongol priests),
442
Bakhtiyari of Ahwaz (Persian
poet), 146
Abu Bakr (Caliph), 194, 228,
229, 240, 420
Abu Bakr 'Abdu'llah b. Mu-
hammad Shahawar. See
Najmu'd-Din Daya
Abu Bakr b. Ishaq, 139
Abu Bakr b. Sa'd-i-Zangi, 460,
488, 491, 528, 541
Abu Bakr b. -Salmani of
Kalash, 342 (= Suzani)
Abu Bakr Kuhistani, 278
-Bakri (geographer), 299
Baku, 394
Ba'labakk, 529
-Baladhuri (historian), 138
-Bal'ami, Abu'l-Fadl—(trans-
lator of -Tabari's history),
115, 230, 280, 281
Balasaghun, 428
Balkh, 146, 153, 169, 175, 180,
182, 200, 218, 225, 227, 228,
247, 277 281, 299, 306, 307,
317, 338, 346, 348, 364, 377,
382, 384, 386, 390, 397, 438,
446, 470, 515, 529
Baluchistan, 10
Bamiyan, 439, 446
Banakat, 437, 446
Band (strophe), 23
Bang (bhang), 205
Banias (Baniyas), 210, 316
Bankipur Library, 257
Barbad of Jarid (Tabari poet),
93, 115
Barbier de Meynard, 282, 482
Barda', Barda'a, Bardha'a,
282
Bargès, Abbé —, 504
Barhebræus, 468, 469, 477
Barkiyaruq (Seljuq), 185, 297-
302, 311, 312.
Barmak, House of —. See
Barmecides
Barmecides, 54, 185, 475
“Barzakh,” 498
Bashshar b. Burd (poet and
sceptic), 34
Basra, 200, 224, 360, 462
Batili troops (North Africa),
223
Batinis (“Esoterics”), 169, 187,
196, 202, 214, 215, 230, 231,
295. 312. See Isma'ilis,
Assassins, Sect of the Seven,
Carmathians, Fatimids, &c.
Batson, Mrs. H. M. —, 249
Bawand, House of —, 135
Baward, 170. See Abiward
Ibnu'l-Bawwab, 488
Bayanu'l-Adyan, 288
Bayazid of Bistam, 222, 229
Baybars (-Malik-Dhahir), 446
-Baydawi, 'Abdu'llah b. 'Umar
—, 487
Baydu, 444, 452
Bayhaq, 304
-Bayhaqi, Abu'l-Hasan —, 254
Baylaqan, 397, 446
-Baysani (Arabic writer), 87
Baysunghur's preface to
Shahnama, 139
Bayt (so-called “couplet”),
24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 42
Ibn Baytar, 477, 487
Baytu'sh-Sha'r and Baytu'sh-
Shi'r, 24
Baytuz (governor of Bust),
99
Bedouin, 223, 462
Behistun, (Bagastana, Bisu-
tun), 3, 284, 405
Benjamin of Tudela, Rabbi,
—, 205
Beresine, 435
Berlin Library, 276, 478
Bethlehem, 222
Beyrout, 186, 222, 469, 488
Bhakar (in India), 478
Bi'at (oath of allegiance), 202
Bible, 4, 230
Bibliothèque Nationale
(Paris), 244, 245, 260, 473,
477, 481
Bicknell, Hermann —, 76
Bidpai, Fables of —, 350. See
Kalila and Dimna
Bilqis (Queen of Sheba), 512
Bintu'n-Najjariyya, 345
-Biruni, Abu Rayhan —, 90,
91, 96-98, 101, 103, 105
Bishr-i-Darghush, 335
Bishr-i-Isfara'ini, 335
Bisitun, Mt., 284
Bist Bab dar ma'rifat-i-
Usturlab (by Nasiru'd-Din
Tusi), 485
Bitlis, 222
Black, John Sutherland —,
469
Bland, Nathaniel —, 211, 218,
478
Blochet, 435
Blochmann, 19, 24, 83
Bodleian Library, 288
de Boer, Dr. T. J. —, 293
Bombay, 318, 379, 498, 534
Books burned, heretical —,
160, 193
Borgia, Cæsar —, 532
Brahmins, 266, 321, 530
“Brazier Dynasty,” 10. See
Saffaris
Brill, Messrs. —, of Leyden,
94
Brinton, Mrs. Elizabeth
Curtis —, 259
British Museum Library, 276,
288
Brockelmann, 101, 102, 106,
289, 293, 295, 333, 360, 406,
484, 485, 486, 488, 497
Buddhism, 440, 442, 444, 445
Budge, Dr. E. W. —, 411
Bugha, Amir —, 300
Bughra, 437
-Buhturi, 228, 389
Bukhara, 12, 15, 16, 27, 90, 92,
95, 99, 100, 102, 106, 107, 114,
167, 170, 183, 303, 335, 343,
428, 437, 446, 447, 459, 478
Bulaq, 288, 468
Bulghar, 524
Bundar. See Pindar of Ray
-Bundari, -Fath b. 'Ali b.
Muhammad —, 11, 166, 170,
172, 175-180, 186, 190, 191,
202, 205, 302, 303, 326, 354,
360, 472
-Buni, Shaykh Muhiyyu'd-
Din —, 486
Buraq, 285
Buraq Hajib, 449
Buraq the Turkman, 509
Burckhardt, 472
Burhani (poet, father of
Mu'izzi), 35, 37, 189, 308
Burhanu'd-Din of Tirmidh,
516
-Burini, Shaykh Hasan —,
504
Burns, Robert — (Scotch
poet), 246
Burujird, 302
Bushaq (Abu Ishaq, poet of
Shiraz), 82
Bust, 99, 169, 172
Bustan, (of Sa'di), 77, 80, 496,
525-530
-Busti, Abu'l-Faraj —, 280
Buwayh, House of —, 11, 87,
90, 91, 93, 95, 100, 101, 102,
107, 114, 115, 141, 152, 158,
165, 169-170, 172, 454, 459,
470
Buzurg-Ummid, Kiya —, 311,
453, 454
Buzurjmihr, 279, 281
Byzantines, 166, 173, 177, 178,
274, 399, 442, 469
Byzantium, 409

Cacopleonasm (Hashw - i -
qabih), 57
Cadell, Miss Jessie E. —,
258
Cæsar (Qaysar), 30, 399
Cairo, 86, 99, 199, 202, 203,
204, 222, 223, 224, 237, 253,
289, 363, 435, 446, 460, 468,
474, 475, 476, 477, 484, 496,
498, 501, 502
Calcutta, 249, 355, 372, 384
Caliphs. See under Ortho-
dox, Umayyad, 'Abbasid,
and Fatimid
Cambridge, 115, 149, 212,
330, 350, 360, 412, 472, 481,
521
“Candle-qasida,” 154
Cannabis Indica, 205. See
Hashish
Capricorn, 42
Capua, John of —, 350, 353
Cardonne, 350
Carmathians, 11, 119, 140,
193, 214, 230, 295. See
Assassins, Batinis, Fati-
mids, Isma'ilis, Sect of the
Seven
Carra de Vaux, 106
Carroll, Lewis —, 45
Caseneuve, 204
Cashmere. See Kashmir
Caspian Sea, 90, 102, 114, 271,
435, 438, 448
“Cat and Mouse” (Mush u
gurba of 'Ubayd-i-Zakani),
78
Cathay (Khata), 41, 123, 238,
307, 527
Caucasians, 177
Central Asia, 210, 447
Ceuta, 484
Chach, 263
Chaghaniyan, 124. See also
Farighun
Chagatay, 451
Chaghri Beg, 167. See Da'ud
b. Mika'il
Chaha, 139
Chahar Maqala (the “Four
Discourses” of Nidhami-i-
'Arudi of Samarqand), 13,
14, 15, 20, 35, 38, 39, 88, 89,
96, 97, 107, 114, 119, 124,
125, 126, 127, 129, 131, 133,
134, 135-139, 148, 156, 157,
160, 188, 189, 246, 247, 248,
249, 255, 299, 302, 305, 306,
308, 323, 324, 327, 335, 336-
340, 346, 370
Chaldæans, 469
Chelebi Amir 'Arif (grandson
of Jalalu'd-Din), 519
Chenery (translation of al-
Hariri's Maqamat), 359
Chernigov, 450
Chess, 160
Chigil, 422
China, 168, 409, 410, 428,
442, 444, 447, 450, 452, 512
524
Chinese, 442, 453, 461
Chinese Tartary, 183
Chingaj (Kuyuk's wazir),
451
Chingiz Khan, 12, 193, 382,
435, 436, 437, 440, 443, 444,
445, 446, 447, 448, 450, 452,
456, 473, 491
Chitral, 460
Chodzko, 109
Chrestomathie persane (Sche-
fer), 288, 435, 489
Christ, 48, 77, 178, 228, 291
359
Christians, 4, 106, 209, 214,
223, 224, 230, 358, 391, 399,
440, 441, 442, 444, 445, 451
469, 471, 529
Chronogram, 76-77
Chronology of Ancient Na-
tions (-Biruni), 101, 103,
105
Clarke, Col. Wilberforce —
411
Cochin China, 447
Coleridge, 452
Commentary on Qur'an, Old
Persian —, 227
Conrad, Marquis of Mont-
ferrat, 209
Constantine, 228
Constantinople, 5, 13, 29. 82
183, 442, 488
Conventionality of Persian
verse, 84
Copenhagen, 262
Cordova, 295, 486
Corea, 447
“Couplet,” 24
Cowell, Prof. —, 108
Cow-worship, 266
Cracow, 450
Crawford, Lord — of Bal-
carres, 478
Crete, 10
Crimea, 447
Crœsus, 33
Crusaders, 166, 193, 204, 206
209
Ctesiphon, 171
Culturgeschichte d. Orients (v.
Kremer), 290, 482. See von
Kremer
Cureton, 106, 362
Cyprus, 10, 452