Abáqá (Mongol Íl-Khán, xiii), 17-25,
31, 40, 53, 69, 106, 112, 114, 175
'Abbás “the Great,” Sháh — (Ṣafawí
king, xvi-xvii), 317, 396
'Abbás (murderer of Ulugh Beg, xv),
386
'Abbásid Caliphs (viii-xiii), 91, 206,
396, 484
'Abbásí clan or family of Qazwín, 94
Abdál (a class of invisible saints),
276 and n.
Abdál Beg (xv-xvi), 417
'Abdu'l-'Azíz b. Ulugh Beg (Tímúrid,
xv), 386
'Abdu'l-Ghafúr of Lár (disciple of
Jámí, xv-xvi), 458, 508
'Abdu'l-Ḥamíd (Ottoman Sulṭán, xix-
xx), 107 n.
'Abdu'lláh. Shaykh — Anṣárí (saint,
iv-v), 479, 514; Amír — of Shíráz
(xiii); Mír — (father of Sháh
Ni'matu'lláh, xiv), 464; — b.
Faḍlu'lláh of Shíráz (historian, xiii-
xiv), see Waṣṣáf-i-Hadrat and
Ta'ríkh-i-Waṣṣáf; Prince — b.
Ibráhím b. Sháh-rukh (Tímúrid,
xv), 387, 429; — b. Mír 'Alí (calli-
graphist, xv), 395; — Mathnawí-
gú (known as Hátifí, xvi), 459
Abú 'Abdi'lláh Muḥammad b. Abí
Bakr b. 'Uthmán. See Imámí
'Abdu'l-Laṭíf, son of the minister
and historian Rashídu'd-Dín Faḍ-
lu'lláh (xiii-xiv), 82, 84; Prince —,
son of Ulugh Beg the Tímúrid (xv),
82, 84, 386, 387, 388, 390, 429,
438, 503
'Abdu'l-Majíd b. 'Izzu'd-Dín (Ḥurúfí
heretic, xv). See Firishta-záda
'Abdu'l-Mú'min, son of Rashídu'd-
Dín Faḍlu'lláh (xiii-xiv), 81; —
the rhapsodist, put to death (xiv-
xv), 195
'Abdu'l-Muqtadir, Mawlawí — (con-
temporary Indian scholar), 259 n.,
260, 261, 263, 287 n., 293 n.
'Abdu'l - Qádir. — of Marágha
(musician, xiv-xv), 191, 384; —
(? Ḥurúfí, xiv), 368
'Abdu'l-Waḥíd (name adopted by
Herman Bicknell, q.v., xix),
302-3
'Abdu'n-Nabí Fakhru'z-Zamán (bio-
grapher of poets, xvii), 273
'Abdu'r-Raḥím. — Ḥurúfí (xiv),
368; — Khán-Khánán (Akbar's
general, translator of the Bábur-
náma into Persian, xvi), 392
'Abdu'r-Raḥmán. Shaykh — Fámí
(author of old and apparently lost
history of Herát), 174, 431; — (un-
identified, xv), 494; — Bey Sheref
(contemporary Turkish historian),
408 n., 411, 412
'Abdu'r-Razzáq. — Sarbadár ruler
(xiv), 178; — Kamálu'd-Dín of
Samarqand (historian, xv), 361,
393, 397, 426, 428-430, 464, 473;
— Láhijí (commentator of the
Gulshan-i-Ráz, xvii), 148
Abel-Rémusat, 10, 19 n.
Abgháy (grandfather of Tímúr, xiv),
185
Abhar (near Zanján), 31, 87
Abíward, 497
Abkház, 85, 122, 490
Abraham, 89, 529-31, 547
Abulustayn, Battle of — (A.D. 1277), 19
Abyssinia, Abyssinians, 89, 398
Achaemenian dynasty, 3
Adam, 73, 89, 100, 133, 219 n., 245,
335, 343
Ádam-náma (Ḥurúfí work), 374, 450
Aden, 111, 327, 398
Ádharbáyján (Persian province), 43,
122 n., 146, 160, 173, 187, 192,
194, 264, 272, 317, 321, 332, 382,
385, 389, 397, 399, 400, 401, 402,
406, 409, 410, 416, 425, 426, 462,
489
Ádharí (poet, xiv-xv), 259, 350, 352,
438, 497, 498, 502-3
'Ádil Sháh, Mír — (d. A.D. 1424),
489
Adrianople (Turkish Edirné), 104,
356, 370
'Aḍudu'd-Dín. — 'Abdu'r-Raḥmán
b. Aḥmad al-Íjí (theologian and
philosopher, xiv), 159, 170, 276 n.,
356-7; — (grandson of Faḍlu'lláh
al-Ḥurúfí, xv), 366
Áfáq u Anfus (poem by Busḥáq, xv),
350; — (poem by Maḥmúd Qárí
of Yazd, xv), 351-2
Afḍal-i-Káshí (poet, xiv), 154
Afḍalu'd-Dín. Mawláná — (xiii),
27; Sayyid — Mas'úd (pensioner,
xiv), 81
Afghánistán, Afgháns, 64, 107, 122 n.,
152 n., 161, 175, 193, 379, 393
'Afífa (daughter of Amír Khusraw,
xiii), 109
'Afífu'd-Dín of Baghdád (xiv), 83
Afrásiyáb (Atábek of Luristán, xiii),
37
Africa, North —, 92
Afshár tribe (supporting Sháh Isma'íl
the Ṣafawí, xvi), 417
Agra (taken by Bábur, A.D. 1526),
393
Áhang-i-Khusrawání (name of a Per-
sian air), 500 n.
Ahar, 27, 416
Ahí (poet of Bábur's time, xvi), 459
Ahlí (poet of Turshíz, xv), 438, 459
Aḥmad. Sulṭán — Takúdar (Mongol
Il-khán, xiii), 25-6, 27, 31; —
(Muẓaffarí prince of Kirmán, xiv),
163, 168, 169, 190; — b. Uways
of the Il-khání or Jalá'ir dynasty
(xiv), 172, 173, 187, 191, 196, 197,
204, 205, 206, 284, 358, 366, 399,
400; — b. Abú Sa'íd (Tímúrid
prince, xv), 390; Chapel of —,
504; Sulṭán — (Ottoman, xvii),
396; — Sháh Bahmaní (of the
Deccan, xv or xvi), 464; Sulṭán —
(governor of Kurdistán, xv), 401;
— b. Rashídu'd-Dín Faḍlu'lláh
(governor of Ardabíl, xiii-xiv), 84,
86; — (Áq-qoyúnlú prince, xiv),
404; Shaykh — -i-Jám (saint, xi-
xii), 479; — Suhrawardí (calli-
graphist, xiii), 84; — b. Sahl of
Balkh (geographer, cited in Nuz-
hatu'l - Qulúb, ? xiii), 99; — b.
Abí 'Abdi'lláh (author of the
Tibyán, cited in the Nuzhatu'l-
Qulúb), 99; Qáḍí — of Dámghán
(historian, source of Ta'ríkh-i-
Guzída), 89; Khwája — (mer-
chant, xiv), 84; — of Tabríz (poet,
author of Sháhinsháh-náma, xiv),
103; — -i-Lur (Ḥurúfí, assailant of
Sháh-rukh, A.D. 1426), 366, 382,
473; Sayyid — Ṭoghán-oghlu (en-
voy of Úzún Ḥasan to Ottoman
Sulṭán, xv), 410; Farídu'd-Dín —
b. Sa'd-at-Taftázání (theologian
and jurist, xv), 398, 423, 458;
— Dedé b. Luṭfu'lláh (Turkish his-
torian, xvii), 384 n.; — b. Muḥam-
mad Nadím (Turkish historian,
translator from the Arabic of the
last writer's Ṣaḥá'ifu'l-Akhbár,
xviii), 384 n.; Dr — Khán (con-
temporary), 183, 361
Aḥmad-ábád (Gujerát, India), 318
Aḥrár, Khwája — Naqshbandí (saint,
xv), 441
'Á'isha (wife of the Prophet, called
Ḥumayrá), 320 n.
'Á'isha Sulṭán Begum (Bábur's wife),
455
'Ajá'ibu'l-Makhlúqát (“Wonders of
Creation” of al-Qazwíní, xiii), 64 n.
'Ajá'ibu'l-Maqdúr fí akhbári Tímúr
(“Marvels of Destiny in the History
of Tímúr,” by Ibn 'Arabsháh,
q.v., xv), 181, 183, 321 n., 355-6
Akbar (the celebrated “Great Mogul”
Emperor of India, xvi-xvii), 391,
392, 393 n.
Akhí Júq (antagonist of Mubárizu'd-
Dín, xiv), 165
Ákhirat-náma (Turkish Ḥurúfí book),
374-5, 450
Akhláq - i - Jalálí (by Jalálu'd - Dín
Dawání, xv), 246, 389, 442-4
Akhláq-i-Muḥsiní (by Ḥusayn Wá'iẓ-
i-Káshifí, xv), 246, 443, 444
Akhláq - i - Náṣirí (by Naṣíru'd-Dín
Ṭúsí, xiii), 18 n., 442
^*Akhláqu'l - Ashráf (by 'Ubayd - i -
Zákání, xiv), 230, 232, 235, 237,
244-51, 257
Akhláṭ, 188, 192, 401
Akhtar (the “Star,” a Persian news-
paper published at Constantinople,
A.D. 1875-1895), 515 n.
'Akká (St Jean d'Acre in Syria,
ravaged by Tímúr in A.D. 1401),
197
Ála Tágh (or — dágh, mountain), 59,
192
Álafrank (son of Gaykhátú, Mongol
prince, xiii-xiv), 43, 48
Alamút (stronghold of the Assassíns),
6, 25, 66, 69, 92, 255
Alast (“Day of —”), 219 n., 307
and n., 308
'Alá'u'd-Dawla. — b. Aḥmad Jalá'ir
(xiv), 191; — b. Báysunqur
(Tímúrid prince, xv), 386-8; —
Bakhtísháh Ghází (father of Daw-
latsháh, q.v., xv), 436
'Alá'u'd-Dín. — 'Aṭá Malik-i-Ju-
wayní (historian, xiii), 20, 22, 24,
25, 29, 65, 88, 106; Khwája —
Hindú (correspondent of Rashí-
du'd-Dín Faḍlu'lláh, xiii-xiv), 82;
Malik — (correspondent of same,
xiii-xiv), 85; Sulṭán — of India
(correspondent of same, xiii-xiv),
85; — Kurt (xiv), 176; Khwája
— Muḥammad (fiscal officer of
Sulṭán Abú Sa'íd, xiv), 215; —
(appealed to by 'Ubayd-i-Zákání,
xiv), 240, 241; — Simnání (xiii-
xiv), 484; — 'Alí Qúshjí (astro-
nomer and philosopher, xv), 386,
407
Alburz Mountains, 316 n.
Aleppo (Ḥalab), 181, 197, 361, 425,
449, 464
Alexander “the Great” (Iskandar-
i-Rúmí), 3, 16, 89, 90 n., 182,
228, 291 n., 317 n., 373, 533, 536,
541
Alexandria (Iskandariyya), 53 n.
Alfiyya [wa] Shalfiyya (pornographical
work by Azraqí, xi), 347 and n.,
349, 350
'Alí. — b. Abí Ṭálib (fourth Caliph
of Sunnís and first Imám of Shí'a,
vii), 51, 71, 91, 250, 255, 510,
519, 521; — Riḍá (eighth Imám
of Shí'a, viii-ix), 44; Shaykh —
b. Kinjik (or Kikhshik, or Kichik,
Mongol, xiv), 53; Amír — Pádi-
sháh (Mongol noble, xiv), 59;
Amír — (governor of 'Iráq-i-'Arab,
xiii-xiv), 80-81, 82; — b. Rashí-
du'd-Dín Faḍlu'lláh (xiii-xiv), 84;
— Sahl (son of Shaykh Abú Isḥáq
Injú, xiv), 163, 275 n.; — b.
Uways Jalá'ir (xiv), 172; —
Mu'ayyad (Sarbadár, xiv), 178;
— Sulṭán Qúchín (retainer of Sháh-
rukh, xv), 366; — Táz (or Pír
'Alí, xv), 381; — Beg b. Qára
'Osmán (or 'Uthmán, of the “White
Sheep” Turkmáns, xv), 404; —
Qúshjí (entitled 'Alá'u'd-Dín,
q.v., xv), 386, 407; — b. Ḥusayn
Wá'iẓ-i-Káshifí (xv), 434, 441-2,
509
Abú 'Alí b. Síná, 443. See Avicenna
'Alí-gaṛh (A.-O. M. College, India),
108, 261
'Alí-sháh. — (rival and enemy of
Rashídu'd-Dín Faḍlu'lláh, xiv),
51-2, 54, 70, 71; — (son of the
same Rashíd, xiii-xiv), 84
'Aliyyu'l-A'lá (successor of Faḍlu'lláh
al-Ḥurúfí, xiv-xv), 371, 374, 451
Alláhu Akbar, Tang-i- — (defile near
Shíráz), 291 and n.
Allesandri, Vincentio d' — (Italian
traveller in Persia, xvi), 381 n.
Almagest, 18, 502
“Alumut” (last ruler of Áq-Qoyúnlú
dynasty so called by Italians), 415
Alwand Beg b. Yúsuf Áq-Qoyúnlú
(xv-xvi), 417-18
Amán-Kúh, 176
America, 107
Ámid (Diyár Bakr), 192, 404
'Amídu'l-Mulk Ṣáḥib-Díwán (patron
of 'Ubayd-i-Zákání, xiv), 235, 238
Amín (poet contemporary with Kátibí,
xv), 494
Amíní (poet parodied by Maḥmúd
Qárí of Yazd), 352
Amínu'd-Dín. — Naṣr Mustawfí
(great-grandfather of Ḥamdu'lláh
Mustawfí of Qazwín, xiii), 87, 96;
Khwája — (minister of Shaykh
Abú Isḥáq Injú, xiv), 233; Shaykh
— (? identical with preceding),
275; — (poet parodied by Busḥáq,
probably identical with Amíní
mentioned above), 350
Amír Bey (Ottoman envoy to Úzún
Ḥasan, xv), 410
Amír Khusraw of Dihlí (poet, xiii),
108-10. See under Khusraw
Amírí, Yúsuf — (poet attached to
Báysunghur, xv), 501
Amurath, a corruption of Murád, q.v.
'Ána (in Mesopotamia), 42, 69, 81
Ana'l-Ḥaqq (“I am the Real,” i.e.
God), 195 n.
Anatolia, 371, 451
Andakán, 180
Andakhúd, 185
Andalusia, 132
Angioletto, Giovan Maria — (Italian
traveller in Persia, xv), 381 n.,
409, 411, 412, 413, 416
Angora (Anqura), Battle of — (A.D.
1402), 198, 199, 365, 370
^*Anísu'l - 'Árifín (the “Gnostics'
Familiar,” by Qásimu'l-Anwár,
q.v.), 475, 482, 485
Anísu'l - 'Ashiqín (the “Lovers'
Familiar,” by Qásimu'l-Anwár,
q.v.), 475
Anísu'l-'Ushsháq (by Sharafu'd-Dín
Rámí, A.D. 1423), 462
Anjou, King René of —, 395
'Anqá (mythical bird), 136 and n.,
316 n.
Antioch (Anṭákiya), 81
Anúsharwán, Khusraw — (the Sásá-
nian, vi). See Núshírwán
Anwarí (poet, xii), 64, 118, 224, 291,
350, 510, 522
Anwár-i-Suhaylí (“Lights of Cano-
pus,” by Ḥusayn Wá'iẓ-i-Káshifí,
xv), 441, 443, 463, 504
Áq Búghá (“White Bull,” grandfather
of Shaykh Ḥasan-i-Buzurg), 171
Áq-Qoyúnlú (“White Sheep” Turk-
mán dynasty, xv-xvi), 379, 380,
381, 389, 399, 403-4, 407-9,
417, 418, 421 n., 444
Áq Shamsu'd-Dín, Shaykh — (Turkish
theologian, xv), 411
Aqṭáb (“Poles,” plural of Quṭb, a
class of the Rijálu'l-Ghayb, or In-
visible Saints), 276 n.
Arabia, Arabic, Arabs, 3-5, 32, 64,
93, 99, 132, 162, 231 n., 250 n.,
461, 467, 468 n.
Arabia Felix, 184. See Yaman
“Arabian Nights” (Alf Layla wa
Layla), 221
Arabic literature produced in Persia,
62-65
Ibnu'l-'Arabí, Shaykh Muḥyi'd-Dín
— (the great mystic, xii-xiii), 63,
127, 128, 132, 139, 446 n., 447,
484, 514
Ibn 'Arabsháh (historian, xiv), 181,
183, 185, 197 n., 198, 203, 321 n.,
355-6
Araxes (Aras) river, 187, 192, 196
Áráyish-náma (“Book of Adorn-
ment” by the poet Maḥmúd Qárí
of Yazd, xv), 352
Arbíl, 191
Archives (Paris), 10
Arcturus (Simák), 113
Ardabíl, 42, 85, 86, 362, 416, 473,
474, 482, 485, 486
Ardashír. — Bábakán (founder of
Sásánian dynasty, iii), 90 n.; —
-i-Changí (Míránsháh's harper, xiv),
195 n.; — (unidentified, xv), 494-5
Arghún (Mongol Íl-khán, A.D. 1284-
91), 26, 27-34, 37, 40, 46, 47, 163
'Árif Ḥikmat Bey (Turkish poet,
xviii-xix), 371
'Árifí (poet of Herát, xv), 438, 490,
495-7
Arik Búqá (brother of Húlágú the
Mongol, xiii), 58
Aristotle, 18, 443
Arjísh, 399
Armenia, Armenians, 54, 181, 190,
196, 201, 406, 489
Arpa, Arpagá'ún (Mongol Íl-khán,
xiv), 58-59, 171, 274 n.
Arrán, 57, 67
'Arsh-náma (“Book of the Throne,”
Persian Ḥurúfí work), 375, 450
Arzanján, 83, 188. See also Erzinján
Áṣaf (Solomon's minister), 67, 307,
308, 309
Aṣafí (poet, xv), 438, 458
'Ashára (unidentified place in Meso-
potamia), 81
Ash'arí (doctrine), 301
^*Ashi' 'atu'l-Lama'át (Jámí's com-
mentary on 'Iráqí's Lama'át,
q.v.), 132-3, 444-7, 512
'Áshiq Chelebi (biographer of Turkish
poets), 369
Ashraf, Malik-i- — (xiv), 170
Ashraf-i-Namad-púsh (poet parodied
by Maḥmúd Qárí of Yazd), 352
Asia Minor, 3, 5, 53, 54, 56, 58, 71,
92, 99, 111, 127, 155, 188, 196,
357, 397, 404, 408, 479
'Asjadí (poet, xi), 65
Aṣílu'd-Dín (b. Naṣíru'd-Dín Ṭúsí,
astronomer, xiii), 48; — (judge of
Shíráz, xiv), 275, 276
Asír-Gaṛh (Burhánpúr, India), 289
“Asmurat” (Italian corruption of
Murád), 412
Asráru't-Tanzíl (al-Bayḍáwí's com-
mentary on the Qur'án, xiii), 63
“Assambei” (Italian corruption of
Ḥasan Beg, i.e. Úzún Ḥasan,
q.v.), 389, 404
'Aṣṣár (poet of Tabríz, xiv), 159, 328,
344
Assassins (of Alamut, q.v.), 6, 19, 25,
53, 66, 69, 73, 92, 154-5, 255
Ástárá, 482
Astarábád, 190, 216, 286, 355, 365,
368, 370, 388, 390, 395, 488, 489
“Astibisti” (Italian corruption of
Hasht Bihisht, “the Eight Para-
dises”), 414
Astrachan, 356
Astrology condemned, 86
Atábek (son of Shamsu'd-Dín Mu-
ḥammad Ṣáḥib-Díwán, xiii), 28,
29; — dynasty of Fárs, 92, 100,
121, 274 (see also Salgharid); —
of Luristán, q.v., 68, 92, 189
Átash-kada (“Fire-temple,” a well-
known biography of Persian poets
by Luṭf 'Alí Beg Ádhar, xviii),
111, 119, 210, 211, 216, 222, 230,
258, 274, 321 n., 331 n., 345
'Aṭá'u'lláh, Mir — of Mashhad (writer
of Bábur's time, xv-xvi), 458
Átháru'l-Bilád (“Monuments of the
Lands” by al-Qazwíní, xiii), 64-5
Athenœum (newspaper), 95 n.
Athír-i-Awmání (poet, xiii), 154, 261
Ibnu'l-Athír (Arabian historian, xiii),
88, 144 n.
Auguries from Ḥáfiẓ (tafá'ul), 311-
19
Austin (printers, of Hertford), 504 n.
Austrians (defeated by Mongols at
Liegnitz, A.D. 1241), 6
Avesta, 290 n., 317 n.
Avicenna (Shaykh Abú 'Alí ibn Síná,
x-xi), 443, 522
Avník, 192, 196
'Awáṣim, 81
'Awfí (Núru'd-Dín Muḥammad, bio-
grapher, xiii), 65
Awḥadí of Marágha (poet, xiii-xiv),
? 128, 141-6; parodied, 352
Awḥadu'd-Dín of Kirmán (poet, xiii),
65, ? 128, 139-41, 473
Awján, 166
Awrang-zíb 'Álamgír (“Great Mogul”
Emperor, A.D. 1659-1707), 391
Awtád (a class of the “Invisible
Saints”), 276 n.
Aydakán, 171
Aydín, 192
Áy Khátún (daughter of Rashídu'd-
Dín Faḍlu'lláh), 84
'Ayn Jálút (defeat of Mongols by
Egyptians at — in A.D. 1260), 19
'Ayntáb, 197
Aywának (near Ray), 194
Ayyúbí Dynasty, 408
Ázád, Ghulám 'Alí Khán — (bio-
grapher, xviii), 289
Azraqí (poet, xi), 347