Da'd, 85
Dagh-gah (Branding-ground),
125
Dahhak (Azhidahaka), 228
Ibnu'd-Dahhak, Ahmad —
(nephew of Ibnu'l-'Alqami),
464
Da'i (Propagandist, plural
Du'at), 169, 196, 198, 200,
201, 202, 203, 206
Dajjal (Antichrist), 231
Damascus, 11, 181, 195, 199,
203, 222, 311, 446, 475, 477,
483, 487, 497, 508, 516, 517,
519, 529
Damghan, 153, 172, 203, 222,
446, 449
Damietta, 429
“Dancing Dervishes,” 518
Daniel, 228
Danish version of Kalila and
Dimna, 350
Danish-nama-i-'Ala'i, 115,
288
Daqiqi (Persian poet), 18, 116,
127, 130, 222, 271
Dar-i-Dasht (district of Isfa-
han), 541
Dara b. Minuchihr (Ziyarid
prince), 169
Darband-i-Shirwan, 428
Darghush, Bishr-i- — (Per-
sian poet), 335
Darius, 3, 233, 469
Darmesteter, 3
Darrab, Amir — (Isma'ili
propagandist), 201, 202
Dasht-i-gur (Isma'ili mission-
house near Isfahan), 314
Dasht-i-Khawaran (district in
Khurasan), 366
Dastur-i-a'dham (work as-
cribed to Nasir-i-Khusraw),
244
Abu Da'ud (Da'i 'd-Du'at, or
chief propagandist of
-Mustansir), 203
Da'ud b. Malikshah, 182
Da'ud b. Mika'il b. Seljuq
(Chaghri Beg), 167, 172, 175,
176, 221
David, 530
Dawari, Mirza — of Shiraz
(Persian poet), 41
-Da'wat -Akhira, 187. See
New Propaganda
Da'wat-i-Qiyamat (“Propa-
ganda of the Resurrection”),
454
-Dawidar-Saghir, 461, 462
Dawlat-Khana (Merv), 304
Dawlatshah (author of the
“Memoirs of the Poets”),
15, 16, 19, 35, 69, 70, 89, 118,
120, 121, 123, 124, 129, 130,
138, 139, 140, 148, 149, 153,
154, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161,
188, 190, 225, 244, 249, 254,
271, 272, 274, 275, 276, 278,
290, 303, 308, 317, 323, 326,
330, 331, 333, 334, 337, 341,
342, 343, 344, 366, 367, 369,
370, 393, 394, 398, 400, 401,
402, 412, 413, 415, 419, 421,
424, 450, 451, 509, 511, 519,
541
Daylami, 113, 158, 186, 271,
277, 281, 314, 454, 459
Daylamite dialect, 158
Daylamites, 90, 470. See also
Buwayhids
Decarchy, 166
“Definitions” (Ta'rifat) of
al-Jurjani, 490
Delhi. See Dihli
Derenbourg, 350, 353
Dervishes, 261, 262, 263, 460,
518, 531
-Dhahir (Fatimid Caliph), 104
Dhahir of Faryab, 78, 84, 158,
345, 364, 390, 399, 412-425
Dhahiri (sect or school), 230,
295, 362
Dhahiru'd-Din Tahir b. Mu-
hammad, 412. See Dhahir
of Faryab
Dhakhira-i-Khwarazmshahi,
299, 346
Dhillu'llahi (“Shadow of
God”), Title of —, 104
Dhu'l - Qafiyatayn (Double
rhyme), 271
Dhu'l - Qarnayn, 280. See
Alexander the Great, Iskan-
dar, Sikandar
Dhu'n-Nun (of Egypt), 229,
505, 521
Di'bil (Arabic poet), 33
Dictionnaire géographique de
la Perse, by Barbier de
Meynard, 482
Dihqan, 141, 175
Dihli (Delhi), 448, 488, 540
Diogenes Romanus, 177-178
Directorium Vitœ Humanœ,
350
Dissertations, Gladwin's, 19
“Div-i-'Abbasi,” 229
“Divine Right” in Persia, 194
Diwarwaz (Tabari poet), 93,
115
Diya'u'd-Din b. -Athir, 487
Diyar Bakr, 173
Dizh-i-Kuh, 184, 202, 313, 314,
315
Dnieper, 447
Dole, Nathan Haskell —, 256
Dominicans, 452
Dorn, 100, 211, 480
Dropsy, Arabic name of —, 7
Drummond of Hawthornden,
46
Druzes, 199
Dualists, 230
-Dubaythi, Abu 'Abdi'llah
Muhammad —, 481
Du-bayti = Ruba'i(Quatrain),
q.v.
Dujayl, 461, 462
Abu Dulaf, 133, 373
Duldul, 285
Dumyatu'l-Qasr (by -Bak-
harzi), 100, 114, 355
-Duruzi, 199
Dutch version of Kalila and
Dimna, 350

Eckhardt, 532
École des Langues Orientales
Vivantes, 83
Eden, 524
Edinburgh, 447
Edward II., 441
Egypt, 9, 10, 11, 165, 166, 187,
191, 196, 199, 200, 201, 202,
203, 204, 210, 215, 219, 220,
222, 227, 446, 468, 475, 497,
498, 502, 505, 520, 527
Egyptians, 8, 446, 471, 489, 502
E<text in Greek script omitted>, 106
Elba, 60
Elburz Mts., 90
Elephant, Chapter of the —,
80
Elephant, People of the —,
79-80
Elephant, Year of the —, 79
Elias (Ilyas), 401. See
Nidhami
Elizabeth, Queen —, 60, 77
Elizavetpol, 364, 391, 400, 449
Elliot, Sir H. M. — (History
of India), 470
Elliott, John Bardoe —, 478
England, 246, 483
English Language, 5, 350
Epic, 116, 130, 142-145, 148
Van Erpe, Thomas —. See
Erpenius
Erpenius, 471
Ertoghrul (Ottoman Sultan),
166
Esau, 51
Ethé, Dr. H. —, 13, 44, 108,
110, 117, 131, 140, 141, 146,
147, 149, 153, 161, 163, 191,
211, 218, 221, 224, 226, 228,
244, 245, 246, 261, 262, 263,
264, 270, 273, 274, 275, 276,
289, 308, 311, 318, 325, 326,
363, 368, 371, 429, 478, 489,
491, 508, 528, 529, 535
Euclid, 106, 228, 256
Euphrates, 426
Euphuists, 46
Eupleonasm (Hashw-i-malih),
57
Europe, 166, 256, 442, 447, 478
Eve, 228
Eye, Pupil of the —, how
named by Orientals, 291
Eyebrows, various compari-
sons of the —, 83

Facetiæ (Hazaliyyat) of Sa'di,
45, 532
Abu'l-Fada'il Abdu'r-Rahman
(son of -Musta'sim), 463
Abu'l-Fadl (Akbar's minister),
351
Abu'l-Fadl — Bal'ami, 230,
280, 281
Abu'l-Fadl — Kirmani, 307
Abu'l-Fadl Majdu'l - Mulk
-Qumi (minister of Malik-
shah), 186
Abu'l-Fadl — Mikali (patron
of -Tha'alibi), 101
Abu'l-Fadl — Sukkari (poet),
of Merv, 64
Abu'l-Fadl Talaqani (poet),
157
Fadlun, King of Ganja, 280
Fagnan, 211, 221, 224, 244, 245
Fahlawiyyat (Persian dialect
poems), 44, 488, 533
-Fakhri, Kitabu'l —, 85, 171,
293, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464
Fakhru'd-Dawla, Buwayhid,
101, 159, 280, 459
Fakhru'd-Din, Ahmad b. Far-
rukh (Firdawsi's name), 139
Fakhru'd-Din As'ad of Gurgan
(Persian poet), 271, 274-275,
483
Fakhru'd-Din 'Iraqi (Persian
poet), 500
Fakhru'd-Din Khalid b. -Rabi'
(poet), 381
Fakhru'd-Din Razi (philo-
sopher), 256, 455, 484, 486
Fakhru'l-Islam, 357. See
Ruyani
Fakhru'l-Mulk b. Nidhamu'l-
Mulk, 311, 313
Falaki of Shirwan (Persian
poet), 325, 392
Falaku'd-Din Muhammad b.
Aydimir, 462
Falaku'd-Din Sunqur, 415
Falaku'l-Ma'ali, Minuchihr b.
Qabus —, 104, 156
Fana fi'llah (“Annihilation in
God”), 514
Fanching (China), Siege of
—, 442
Farahan, 217
Farahani, Abu'l-Hasan —
(author of commentary on
Anwari's poems), 369, 371,
391
Abu'l-Faraj, Yuhanna —. See
Barhebraus
Abu'l Faraj -Busti, 280
Abu'l-Faraj of Runa (Persian
poet), 344, 373, 389, 390
Abu'l Faraj of Sistan (Per-
sian poet), 153
Akhu Faraj of Zanjan, Shaykh
—, 401
Fard (“unit” in verse), 22, 23
Farghana, 335
Farhad, 404, 405, 418
Farhadwand, 277
Farhang-i-Nasiri, 237
Ibnu'l-Farid, 498, 501-504.
See 'Umar b. -Farid
Farid-i-Katib (or Dabir), 344,
345, 368, 373, 425
Faridu'd - Din 'Attar. See
'Attar
Farighuniyan, 230, 237, 280.
See Khwarazmshahs, first
dynasty
Farkhar, 329, 422
-Farra -Baghawi, 299, 354
Akhu Farrukh -Rayhani,
Shaykh —, 401
Farrukhi (Persian poet), 19,
115, 116, 124-128, 129, 328,
330, 389, 483
Fars, 92, 177, 180, 204, 426, 449,
487, 527, 528, 541
Faruq, 420. See 'Umar
Faryab, 364, 412, 416
Farzin, Fortress of —, 489
Fasih (author of Mujmal,
q.v.), 381
Fasihi of Jurjan (Persian
poet), 271, 275, 276
Fasila, 24
Fath (slave of -Mutawakkil),
279
Abu'l-Fath, Khwaja —, 373
Abu'l-Fath -Busti, 98-100
Fath b. 'Ali b. Muhammad
-Bundari, 472. See Bundari
Abu'l-Fath Muhammad b.
Abi'l-Qasim b. 'Abdu'l-
Karim. See -Shahristani
Abu'l-Fath Tahir b. Fakhru'l-
Mulk, 390
Fatima (the Prophet's Daugh-
ter), 195, 229, 234
Fatimids, 11, 104, 162, 165,
168, 169, 177, 181, 187, 195,
196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201,
202, 203, 204, 206, 210, 215,
217, 222, 223, 227, 229, 232,
253, 272, 311, 454
Fawatu'l-Wafayat, 255, 485,
486. See Ibn Shakir
Feridun, 113, 228, 237, 341
Ferté, 366, 371
Abu'l-Fida, 471, 477
Fida'is, 187, 206, 208, 209
Fihi ma fihi (by Jalalu'd-Din
Rumi), 519
Fihrist, 114
Fiqhu'l-Lugha (by-Tha'alibi),
101
Abu'l-Firas, 389
Firdaws, 139
Firdawsi, 1, 6, 8, 13, 18, 19, 26,
30, 79, 81, 88, 94, 95, 96, 98,
105, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120,
124, 129-149, 228, 256, 278,
306, 323, 337, 347, 365, 373,
374, 389, 404, 425, 472, 483,
525
Firdawsu't-Tawarikh, 254
Fire-worshippers. See Zoro-
astrians
Firuzkuh, 305
“Fitna” (beloved of Bahram
Gur), 409, 411
Fitzgerald, Edward —, 34,
108, 142, 164, 191, 246, 249,
253, 255, 256, 258, 259
Five Grades of Being, 197
Flügel, 20, 490
Forbes, Persian Grammar, 278
Four discourses, 14. See
Chahar Maqala
Fra Pipino, 208
“Frankish Dog,” 266
“Frankish Tongue,” 209
Franks, 177, 429, 469, 483, 529
French, 350
French words in English, 5
Fuduli (Fuzuli) of Baghdad
(Turkish poet), 406
Fuqa', 135
-Fusul wa'l-Ghayat, 290, 293
Fususu'l-Hikam, 497, 499, 500
-Futuhatu'l - Makkiyya, 497,
498
Futuhi (Persian poet), 334, 382