by Kim Ghattas
INDEX
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Abbas, Mahmoud
Abbasid caliphate
ABC News
Abdallah ibn Saud, king of Saudi Arabia
Abdelaziz ibn Saud, king of Saudi Arabia
Abdelwahhab, Muhammad ibn
Abduh, Muhammad
Abdulmejid II, caliph
Abidin, Muhammad Amin ibn
Abraham
Abu Bakr, first caliph
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, caliph
“Abu Jahl Buys Fleet Street” (Qabbani)
Action Committee on Islamic Affairs (UK)
Adrift on the Nile (Mahfouz)
Afghanistan
Soviet war of 1979–88
US war of 2001–present
Ahl-e Hadith school
Ahl-e Sunnah Wal Jamaat
Ahmad, Faiyazuddin
Ahmad, prince of Saudi Arabia
Ahmadi Muslims
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Ahmed, Mumtaz
Ajami, Fouad
Akhbar al-Adab
Aktay, Yasin
Al-Aqsa mosque
Al-Arabiyya
Al-Ash-Sheikh
Al-Askari shrine
Alawites
Al-Azhar University
Al-Da’wa
Al-Durar al-Saniyya fil Rad ala al-Wahhabiyya (Dahlan)
Al-e Ahmad, Jalal
Alexander the Great
Alexandria library
Alfi, Hassan
Algeria
Algerian National Liberation Front
Al-Hayat
Al-Huda Foundation
Ali, Imam
Najaf shrine
Alinejad, Masih
Al-Jazeera
Al-Jumhuriyya
Al Kawashif al-Jaliyya (al-Maqdisi)
Al-Khobar Towers bombing
Al Lata’if al-Musawwara
Alloush, Zahran
Al-Mustaqbal party (Egypt)
Al-Nahar
al-Nahda
al Nass TV
al-Qaeda
al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
al-Quds Day
al-Quds force
Al Ra’i al Am
Al-Rashid dynasty
Al-Seyassah
Al-Tanf, Battle of
Al-Waleed bin Talal, prince of Saudi Arabia
Al-Watan
Al-Zaytuna Center
Amal party (Lebanon)
American Club (Peshawar)
American hostage crisis
Amir, Aziza
Amiri, Hadi al-
Angawi, Sami
An-Nahar
Ansar al-Islam group
apostasy
Appointment in Samarra (O’Hara)
Arabian-American Oil company (ARAMCO)
Arabian Peninsula People’s Union
Arabian Sands (Thesiger)
Arab-Israeli conflict
Arab League
Arab News
Arab uprising of 2011
Arafat, Yasser
Arba’een
Asakiri
Asharq al-Awsat
Ashmawy, Mohammad Said al-
Ashura
Assad, Bashar al-
Assad, Hafez al-
As-Safir
Assyria
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
Attiah, Karen
Audah, Salman al-
“Axis of Evil”
Ayaz, Shaikh
Aziz, Tariq
Azzam, Abdallah
Baader-Meinhof group
Baalbek, Lebanon
Baath Party
Baba, Rahman
Badr Brigades
Badreddine, Mustafa
Badri, Sheikh Youssef al-
Badri family
Baez, Joan
Baghadad (Ovadia)
Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al- (Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri)
Bahjat, Atwar
Bahrain
Bakhtiar, Shahpour
Bakr, Ahmad Hassan al-
Balfour Declaration
“Ballad of the King’s Jest, The” (Kipling)
Bangash tribe
Bangladesh. See East Pakistan
Banisadr, Abolhassan
Banna, Hassan al-
Bano, Iqbal
Baraheni, Reza
Barelvi
Baroudi, Shams al-
Basij paramilitary
Bayt Baytak (Egyptian TV show)
Baz, Sheikh Abdelaziz Bin
Bazergan, Mehdi
BBC
Beauvoir, Simone de
Before the Fall (Foda)
Begin, Menachim
Beheshti, Mohammad
Behest-e Zahra cemetery
Beirut
US barracks bombing
US embassy bombing
Ben Ali, Zine al-Abidine
Beqaa Valley
Berqawi, Issam. See Maqdissi, Abu Muhammad al-
Bhatti, Shahbaz
Bhittai, Shah Abdullatif
Bhutto, Benazir
Bhutto, Zulfiquar Ali
Bibi, Asia
Black Shiism
blasphemy laws. See also apostasy
Bloody Friday (Mecca clashes of 1987)
Bloomberg News
Bosnia
Brecht, Bertolt
“Bridge, The” (Hawi)
Britain
British India
British Mandate Palestine
British Royal Air Force
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Butairi, Fahad al-
Cairo Court of Appeals
Cairo International Book Fair
Cairo University
caliphate
Callamard, Agnes
“Call of the Prophets, The” (Sadr)
Camp David Accords
Camus, Albert
“Captive” (Farrokhzad)
Carter, Jimmy
Catholic Church
CBS TV
Cengiz, Hatice
Chahine, Youssef
Chamran, Mostafa
Channa, Mehtab. See Rashdi, Mehtab Channa
Chechnya
China
CIA
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Cold War
Committee for the Promotion of Virtue (Saudi)
communism
Conservative Party (Britain)
Coptic Christians
Council of Islamic Ideology (Pakistan)
Critique of Islamic Discourse (Zeid)
Crusades
Cyrus, king of Persia
Dahlan, Ahmad ibn Zayni
Dahlan, Sofana
Daily Times
Darius, king of Persia
Darwish, Mahmoud
Dawalibi, Maarouf
Da’wa Party
Dawn
Decisive Storm, Operation
Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
Deng Xiaoping
Deobandi
Derbas, Abdellatif al-
Desert Storm, Operation
Dido, queen of Carthage
Dimashqieh, Abdulrahman
Divan (Hafez)
Divan (Rumi)
Doha
“Do Not Reconcile” (Dunqul)
Dream Palace of the Arabs (Ajami)
Druze
Dunqul, Amal
Eastern Gouta chemical attack
Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
East Germany
East Pakistan
Ebadi, Shirin
Egypt
Iran and
Islamic fundamentalism in
Israel and
Lebanon and
Mawdudi and
Pakistan and
protests of 2011–12 and
Sadat assassination and
Saudi Arabia and
Sunni-Shia conflict in
universities and
US and
USSR and
“Egypt, A Secular or Islamic State?” (debate)
Eid al-Adha
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip
Esther, Queen
Ethiopia
Eve, tomb of
Evening Times
Evin Prison
Facebook
Fahd, king of Saudi Arabia
Fahs, Badia
Fahs, Hani
Fairuz
Faisal, Saud al-
Faisal, Turki bin
Faisal ibn Saud, king of Saudi Arabia
Faith Campaign
Faiz, Alys
Faiz, Faiz Ahmed
Fanon, Frantz
faqih (wise man)
Farag, Abdelsalam
Farag, Mohammad Abd al-Salam
Farah Diba, empress of Iran
fard ayn
fard kifaya
Farrokhzad, Forough
Fatah
Fatiha (Quran)
Fatima
Faulkner, William
Fawzieh, empress of Iran
FBI
Fedayeen-e Islam
FIFA World Youth championships
Fitzgerald, Ella
Foda, Farag
Force-17
Fouad I, king of Egypt
Foucault, Michel
Four Expressions, The (Mawdudi)
France
Freedom Movement
Free Syrian Army (FSA)
Gaddafi, Muammar al-
Galileo
Gama’a Islamiyya
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gasht-e Ershad
Gaza Strip
Geneva Accords (1988)
Germany
Ghamdi, Mughram al-
Ghani, Safwat Abdel
Ghannami, Khaled al-
Gharbzadeghi (Al-e Ahmad)
Ghazali, Mohammad al-
Ghotbzadeh, Sadegh
global war on terror
Golan Heights
“Good Morning Tehran” (Negm)
Googoosh
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Graham, Lindsey
Greek-Orthodox Christians
Green Movement
Guardian
Gulf states
Gulf War of 1990–91. See also Kuwait
Hadid, Zaha
hadiths
Hafez
Hagar
Hague, The
hajj of 1987
Hajj Research Center
Hakim, Mohammad Baqer al-
hakimiyya (rule of God)
Hamada, Wael
Hamama, Faten
Hama
massacre of 1982
protests of 1973
Hamas
Hambastegi
Hammadi, Nazem
Hanafi Islam
Hanbal, Ahmad ibn
Hanbali Islam
Haq, Fazle
Haq, Gad al-
Haq, Zia ul-. See Zia ul-Haq
Hariri, Rafiq
Hariri, Saad
Haroun al Rashid, caliph
Hasan, Munawar
Hashmi, Farhat
Hathloul, Loujain al-
Hawali, Safar al-
Hawi, Khalil
Hawwa, Sa’id
Hayfa bint Abdallah, Princess
Hazara Shias
Heikal, Mohammad
Heine, Heinrich
Hejaz province, Saudi Arabia
Heliopolis
Herzl, Theodor
Hezbollah
Hidden Imam. See Mahdi
Higher Shia Council (Lebanon)
Hindus
Hodeibi, Hassan al-
Hodeibi, Ma’moun al-
Hojaji, Mohsen
Holocaust
Holy Mosque of Mecca
clashes of 1987 and
siege of 1979
Homs protests of 1973
Hoodboy, Pervez
Hosny, Soad
Houthi rebels
hudood ordinances
hukm (sovereign rule of God). See also hakimiyya
Hum dekhenge (Faiz)
Hussaini, Allama Arif
Hussein
Karbala shrine
Hussein, Saddam
execution of
Hussein, Sharif
Hussein, Taha
Husseini, Hussein al-
Huthaifi, Sheikh Ali al-
Hyderabad, Pakistan
Ibrahim, Nageh
Imam, Sheikh
Imamiyat Student Organization (ISO)
Imam Khomeini schools
Impossible Revolution, The (Saleh)
India
Indonesia
International Baalbek Festival
International Congress on Safeguarding the Sanctity of the Great Mosque
International Islamic Relief Organization
International Islamic University of Islamabad
International Women’s Day
Ionesco, Eugene
Iran
Afghanistan and
anti-shah uprisings
Arafat and
Black Friday and
Britain and
CIA and
coup of 1953
crackdown, post-1979
death of Khomeini and
Egypt and
elections of 2005
elections of 2009
France and Germany and
future of
Hamas and
Hariri assassination and
Hezbollah and
Iraq and
ISIS and
Israel and
Khomeini returns
Khomeini’s wilayat and
Lebanese Palestinian camps and
Lebanon and
leftists
Mawdudi and
Mecca and
Muslim Brotherhood and
nationalists
nuclear program
Pahlavi dynasty and
Pakistan and
Palestinians and
PLO and
protests of 1978
protests of 1999
protests of 2009
protests of 2017
Rushdie and
sanctions and
Saudi détente of 1990–98
Saudi rivalry with
secularization
secular left
Shia and
Sunni-Shia conflict and
Syria and
universities shut down 1980
US and
US-Iraq War and
US nuclear deal and
White Revolution and
women’s veiling protests
World Bank and
Yemen and
Iran Air flight 655
Iranian Constitution
1906
1979
Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1906)
Iranian Islamic Revolution (1979)
Iranian Jews
Iranian parliament
Iranian Revolutionary Courts
Iran-Iraq War (1980–88)
Iraq
Baath Party
constitution of 1970
election of 2006
embargo and
Iran and
ISIS and
Islamists and
Israel and
Kurds and
Kuwait invasion of 1990–91
October 2019 protests
Sadat and
Saddam executed in
Saddam rule in
Saudi Arabia and
Shia
Sunni insurgency
Syria and
uprisings of Shia and Kurds of 1991
US and
US War of 2003 and
Zarqawi and
Irish Republican Army
Ishmael
Islambouli,
Khaled
Islambouli, Mohammad
Islamic Amal
Islamic Conference (Jerusalem)
Islamic Foundation (Leicester)
Islamic Government (Khomeini)
Islamic Jihad
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Islamic Republican Party (IRP)
Islamic Revolutionary Council (Iran)
Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)
Islamic Revolution National and Radio Authority
Islamic Salvation Front
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Ismail I, shah of Persia
Israel
Egypt and
Lebanon and
Saudi Arabia and
Istanbul, Saudi consulate
Italy
I Want a Solution (film)
Jabhat al-Nusra
jahiliyya
Jamaat-e Islami
Jamiat Ahl-e Hadith party
Jannat al-Baqi cemetery
Japanese Red Army
Jaysh al-Islam
Jeddah
US embassy in
Jennings, Peter
Jerusalem
East
Jerusalem Day
“Jerusalem Flower of All the Cities” (Fairuz)
jihad
definition of
Jinnah, Muhammad Ali
John the Baptist, Saint
Jordan
Kamel, Midiha
Karachi
Karbala
battle of 680
sacking of 1801
shelling of 1991
Shia pilgrimages to
uprising of 1991
Kashf al-Asrar (Khomeini)
Kashmir
Kayhan
Kerry, John
KGB
Khalafallah, Mohammad
Khalayleh, Ahmad Fadeel al-. See Zarqawi, Abu Mussad al-
Khaled, king of Saudi Arabia
Khaled bin Salman, prince of Saudi Arabia
Khaled bin Sultan, prince of Saudi Arabia
Khalifeh, Marcel
Khalil, Samira al-
Khalkhali, Sadeq
Khamenei, Ali
Khansaa Brigade
Khashoggi, Jamal
Khatami, Mohammad
Khoei, Abdulmajid al-
Khoei, Abulqasim al-
Khoei, Jawad al-
Khoei, Mohammad Taqi al-
Khomeini, Ahmad
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Afghanistan and
Al-e Ahmad and
Arafat and
Bazergan and
becomes Supreme Leader of Iran
Beqaa clerics and
Constitution of 1979 and
crackdown of 1979–80s and
death of
death of son Mostafa and
early anti-shah activities and
Egypt-Israeli peace treaty
exile from Iran
faqih of
France exile and
Iran-Iraq War and
Iraqi Shia and
Islamic state theory of
Israel and
Lebanon and
martyrdom and
Mawdudi and
Mecca and Medina and
Mecca siege of 1979 and
Musa Sadr and
Muslim Brotherhood and
Najaf and
Pakistan and
Palestinians and
returns to Iran from France
revolution victory declared by
