Hayy ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufail. See Ibn Tufail
Hijaz
Al-Hirthama (dignitary with al-Rashid),
Hisham ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (Ummayad Caliph)
al-Hiwari, Abu ʾl-Qassem (governor)
Ibn Hujja ʾl-Hamawi
Al-Humaisiʿ ibn Bakr
Al-Humaisiʿ ibn al-Sumaidiʿ
Al-Husain ibn ʿAli
Al-Hutaiʾa (early Islamic poet)
Iblis
Ibn ʿAbbas (narrator, reference)
Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi, Ahmad ibn Muham-mad ibn Habib (author of al-ʿIqd al-Farid)
Ibn Abi ʾl-Hadeed
Ibn al-ʿAqdi
Ibn Baqiyya (Vizier of ʿAdud al-Dawla)
Ibn al-Darraj (party crasher)
Ibn al-Daya (Ahmad B. Yusuf) (author of al-Mukafaʾa)
Ibn Duraid, Muhammad al-Azdi (Abbasid scholar and poet)
Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Imam Abu ʾl-Faraj ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi ʾl-Hasan al-Qurashi (scholar and critic)
Ibn al-Jazari (valiant fighter of Harun al-Rashid)
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (translator/editor of Kalila wa Dimna)
Ibn Muqla, ʿAli Abuʾl-Qasim
Ibn Nubata al-Misri, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Judhami (Mamluk poet)
Ibn al-Qarih, Sheikh Ahmad ibn Man-sour al-Halabi (major protagonist in al-Maʿarriʾs Epistle of Forgiveness)
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
Ibn Qutaiba
Ibn Sanaʿ al-Mulk Hibat Allah ibn Jaʾfar (12th–13th century poet)
Ibn Shuhayd Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (Andalusi poet)
Ibn Tufail Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (Andalusi philosopher)
Ibrahim and Ismaʿil
Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi (Abbasid prince)
Ibrahim ibn Sulaiman ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Ikhwan al-Safa (Brethren of Purity) ,
India/Indian
Al-ʿIqd al-Farid li ʾl-Malik al-Saʿid (The Unique Necklace) by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi
Iraq
ʿIsa ibn Hisham
Ishaq al-Mawsili (Abbasid singer)
“The Island of Animals” (in Rasaʿil Ikhwan al-Safa)
Ismaʿil and Ibrahim
Ismaʿil ibn Ghazwan (protagonist in Misers)
Israelites
Iyad ibn Nizar ibn Maʿadd
Iyas ibn Muʿawiya (Umayyad judge)
Jaʿfar ibn Abi Talib (cousin of the Prophet)
Jaʿfar ibn Yahya al-Barmaki (Abbasid vizier)
Al-Jahiz
Jamil ibn Maʿmar (Jamil Buthaina) (Umayyad love poet)
Jarir, ibn ʿAtiyya ibn Hudhaifa (Umayyad poet)
Jesus
Jurayj (the worshipper)
Al-Jurhumi, ʿUbayd ibn Sharia (important narrator in Kitab al-Tijan)
Kaʿb ibn Malek
Kalila and Dimna by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ ,
Kameesh, governor
Al-Kamil fi ʾl-Adab wa ʾl-Lugha by al-Mubarrad
Khaitham ibn Malik (Abbasid chief of police)
Khalid ibn al-Walid (early Muslim general)
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Sijistani (qadi)
Al-Khansaʾ (poetess who lived in pre-Islamic and Islamic times),
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (scholar, historian, and reciter)
Al-Khawwas (Sufi shaikh, narrator)
Al-Khidr (Muslim saint)
Khorasan(is)
Khosrow (Persian king)
Khosrow Abrawiz Khumarawayh ibn Tulun
al-Kilabi, Hubaira ibn al-Mushamraj (envoy to China)
Kitab Al-Adhikiyaʾ (Smart People) by the twelfth-century jurist, linguist, and religious savant Ibn al-Jawzi
Kitab al-Aghani (Book of Songs) by Abu ʾl-Faraj al-Asfahani
Kitab al-Miʿraj, Al-Miʿraj
Kitab al-Tatfeel wa Hikayat al-Tufayliyyin wa Nawadirihim wa Akhbarihim (Book on Party Crashing and the Stories of Party Crashers and Their Anecdotes) by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
Kitab al-Tijan fi Muluk Himyar (The Book of Crowns on the Kings of Himyar); selections from
Kufa
Al-Kutubi, Burhan al-Din
Labid (major pre-Islamic poet)
Laila’s Madman (Qais ibn al-Mulawwah, known as Majnun Laila) (Umayyadlove poet)
The Lion and the Diver (Al-Asad wa ʾl-Ghawwas)
Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib
Luʾluʾa, ʿAbd al-Wahid
Luqman ibn ʿAad
Maʿada al-Anbariyya (protagonist)
Al-Maʿarri, Abu ʾl-ʿAlaʾ
Maʿbad (Umayyad singer)
Al-Madaʾini, Abu ʾl-Hasan (protagonist in Misers)
Al-Mahasin wa ʾl-Addad (Merits and Their Opposites) by al-Jahiz
Al-Mahasin wa ʾl-Masawiʾ (Merits and Faults) by al-Bayhaqi
Al-Mahdi (Abbasid Caliph)
al-Maidani, Abu ʾl-Fadl Ahmad (author)
Majani ʾl-Adab (The Harvest of Literature) by Luis Sheikho
Al-Maʿluf, Shafiq
Mamluk period
Al-Maʾmun (Abbasid Caliph)
Manamat al-Wahrani (The Wahrani Dreams) by Shaikh Rukn al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhriz al-Wahrani
Maʿn ibn Zaʾida
Al-Mansour (Caliph)
Maqamat of Badiʿ al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
Maqamat al-Hariri
Al-Maqqari, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Margoliouth, D. S.
Marwan ibn al-Hakam
Maslama (brother of Caliph Yazid ibn ʿAbd al-Malik)
Al-Mawla, Ahmad Jad
Maymun ibn Qays ibn Jandal (famous as al-Aʿsha)
Mecca
Medina
Midad and Mai (pre-Islamic chaste lovers)
The Misers. See Al-Bukhalaʾ
Moussa ibn Janah (a protagonist in Misers)
Muʿawiya ibn Abi Sufyan ,
Al-Mubarrad, Muhammad ibn Yazid
(author of al-Kamil)
Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Hakam (modern author)
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya (son of Imam ʿAli)
Muhammad ibn Hisham (Umayyad fugitive prince)
Muhammad, Prophet ,
Muhammad ibn Zaid ibn ʿAli ibn al-Husain
Muʿjam al-Buldan (Dictionary of Countries) by Yaqut al-Hamawi
Al-Mukafaʾa (The Recompense) by Abu Jaʿfar Ahmad ibn Yusuf
Al-Mukhtar min Nawadir al-Akhbar (Selections from Rare Anecdotes) by al-Maqqari
Munyat al-Nufus (heroine in Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan)
Al-Muqtadir (Caliph) ,
al-Muradi, ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Murjim (assasin of Imam ʿAli ibn Abi Talib)
Al-Muraqqash al-Akbar (pre-Islamic poet)
al-Muraqqash al-Asghar (pre-Islamic poet)
Al-Mustajad min Fiʿlat al-Ajwad (The Admirable Deeds of Munificent Men) by al-Tanukhi
Al-Mustatraf fi Kulli Fannin Mustazraf (The Exquisite in Every Appealing Art) by Shihab al-Din al-Abshihi
Al-Muʿtadid (Abbasid Caliph)
Al-Muʿtazila
al-Muttalib, Ibn Abi Lahab
Nafh al-Tib fi Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib (Emitted Fragrance from the Moist Branches of al-Andalus) by Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib
Najm al-Din (Ayyubi ruler)
Al-Naqqash, Mahfouz (protagonist in Misers)
Nasr ibn Ahmad (ruler of Khurasan)
Nihayat al-Arab (The Highest Aspiration) by al-Nuwairi
Nishwar al-muhadara wa akhbar al-mud-hakara (Snippets of Conversation and Memorable Tales) by al-Tanukhi; comic tales from; love stories from; strange tales from; tales of rulers from; tales of warfare from
Nizar ibn Rabiʿa
Al-Nuʿman ibn al-Bashir (prince of Hims)
Al-Nuʿman ibn al-Mundhir
Ibn al-Nursi (jurist)
Al-Nuwairi, Shihab al-Din (Egyptian historian)
Nuzhat al-Albab Fima la Yujadu fi Kitab (Diverting Tales Not Found in Books) by al-Tifashi
Palacios, Miguel Asin
Persia
Al-Qadi, Abu ʿUmar (judge)
Qais ibn Dharih (Umayyad love poet)
Qais ibn al-Mulawwah (Umayyad love poet)
Qais bin ʿAsi
m
Quran/Quranic
Qutaiba ibn Muslim
Rabiha bint ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar (second wife of Caliph Yazid ibn ʾAbdal-Malik)
Rasaʿil Ikhwan al-Safa (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity)
The Recompense (Al-Mukafaʾa) by Abu Jaʿfar Ahmad ibn Yusuf
Reprieve After Hardship (Al-faraj baʿda ʾl-shidda) by al-Tanukhi
Al-Rifaʿi, Ahmad Farid
Risalat al-Ghufran (Epistle of Forgiveness) by al-Maʿarri
Risalat al-Tawabiʿwa ʾl Zawabiʿ (Epistle of Familiar Spirits and Demons)
Al-Saffah, Abu ʾl-ʿAbbas ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad (first Abbasid Caliph)
Sahih Muslim (Famous Authentic Compilation of the Prophet’s Traditions)
Sahl ibn Bishr
Saladin (Salah al-Din al-Ayyoubi) (renowned conqueror of Jerusalem)
Sallama (singer)
Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan
Al-Shabb al-Zharif, Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Tilmisani (poet)
Shaddad ibn ʿAad
Shahrabraz (general to Khosro Abrawiz in The Lion and the Diver)
Sharh Nahj al-Balagha (Explicating the Method of Literary Eloquence) by Ibn Abi ʾl-Hadeed
Al-Sharif al-Radi
Sheikho, Luis
Al-Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris
Shummar bin Dhi al-Jawshan al-Dubabi (one of the killers of al-Husain ibn ʿAli)
Sirat Bani Hilal
Sirat ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz (The Life of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz) by Muham-mad ibn ʿAbd al-Hakam
Snippets of Conversation and Memorable Tales. See Nishwar al-muhadara wa akhbar al-mudhakara
Suʿda bint ʿAbd Allah ibn Uthman (wife of Caliph Yazid ibn ʾAbdal-Malik)
Sufis
Sulaiman (Solomon)
Sulaiman (ibn ʿAbd al-Malik) (Caliph)
Al-Tabari, ibn Jarir (historian)
Talha ibn Ubayd ʿAllah
Al-Talqani, Abu ʾl-Hasan Ahmad ibn ʿUmar
Tamerlane
Tamim al-Dari (story of)
Al-Tanukhi, Abu ʿAli ʾl-Muhassin; from comic tales; from love stories; from tales of rulers; from strange tales; from tales of warfare
Tarikh al-Tabari (Tarikh al-Umam wa ʾl-Muluk, History of Nations and Kings)
by al-Tabari
Al-Tawabiʿ wa ʾl-Zawabiʿ (Treatise of Familiar Spirits and Demons) by Ibn Shuhayd
Tayfur, Ahmad ibn Abi Tahir (author of Balaghat l-Nisaaʾ)
Tazyin al-Aswaq bi Tafsil Ashwaq al-ʿUshshaq (Adorning the Markets with Tales of Lovers’ Longing) by al-Antaki
Thamarat al-Awraq (Fruits of Writing) by Ibn Hujja ʾl-Hamawi
Al-Tifashi, Shihab al-Din Ahmad
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz (Ummayad Caliph)
ʿUmar ibn Abi Rabiʿa (Ummayad love poet)
ʿUmar ibn al-Asadi
ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab (second Orthodox Caliph)
Um Asya
Um ʿAwf (Umayyad singer) ʿUnbah bint ʿAfif
The Unique Necklace (Al-ʿIqd al-Farid li ʾl-Malik al-Saʿid) by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi
ʿUthman (third Orthodox Caliph)
ʿUyun al-Akhbar (The Book of Useful Knowledge) by Ibn Qutaiba
Wahb ibn Munabbih
Al-Wahrani, Shaikh Rukn al-Din Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhriz
Al-Walid ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (Umayyad Caliph)
Al-Walid ibn Yazid (Umayyad Caliph)
Yaqut al-Hamawi
Yazid ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (Umayyad Caliph)
Yazid ibn ʿAmr ibn Hubaira (Umayyad loyalist)
Yazid ibn Mazyad
Yazid ibn Muʿawiya (Umayyad Caliph)
Yazid ibn al-Walid (Umayyad Caliph)
Al-Yaziji, Nasif
Zainab bint Ishaq
Ziryab (Abbasid musician)
Ziyad ibn Abih (general and politician)
Zoroastrians
Zufar ibn al-Harith
Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma (pre-Islamic poet)
Subject Index
Abbasid age: changing language in; cities founded in; incessant hounding of Umayyads and loyalists; love in; massacre of the Umayyad dynasty; poetry and prose in; as realistic; rise of the broad public; urbanity
animals: archetypal and symbolic treatment; in early Arabic poetry; in Epistles of the Brethren of Purity; in fables; in Kalila and Dimna; in pre-Islamic literature
Arabic script
Bedouins; cunning; love, in comic tales; and love stories; and rulers; in strange tales
Christianity: and ethics; and the fantastic; and the Gassanids; and literary borrowings; miracle making; and Muslim prisoners; and the Tabouk conquest
fables; didactic role; in stories
folk epics; excerpt from Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan; hero in epic
hero/heroism: antihero in classical Arabic fiction; in epic; status of hero in Western fiction; superhero
homosexuality
humor: in early Islam; in Jahiz; in maqamat; in prose; tales of; and urbanity
irony: and al-Jahiz; and al-Hamadhani; and al-Maʿarri
Islam: and Arab identity; and the divine; insistence on truth; and love; and mysticism; and myths; number seven in; and the rational; Sunni; taboos in
Islamic stories:; Kaʿb ibn Malik; other stories
Israʾ: as tale of marvels; connection with Dante’s Divine Comedy
khabar (pl. akhbar: short anecdotes) genre; and al-Asmaʿi; adherence to truth; description of; and genealogical listing (isnad); and Ibn al-Jawzi; and language change; a purely Arab genre; in major compendiums
language: change in Abbasid age; development of prose; Himyari language; influence of Quranic language; in the khabar genre; prose after the Umayyad age; rhetorical language
love: among the Abbasids; ʿAtika and ʿAbd al-Malik; a Bedouin definition of; chastity in; homosexual; Islam and; Jamil; in old cultures; other tales of; rulers and; Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan and; Sufi; among the Umayyads; Yazid and Habbaba; Yazid ibn Muʿawiya and Zainab
Mamluk period
maqamat; selections from Hamadhani; from Hariri
Miʿraj (ascension to Heaven) genre; description and history; influences on Dante; on Maʿarri’s Epistle of Forgiveness
myths: in pre-Islamic times; vs. Islam; and modern Arabs
Ottoman period
pagan: worldview; gods; stories
poetry: art for art’s sake; development of; elitism; folk; language; love in; pre-Islamic; vs. prose; satire in; ʿUdhri
pre-Islamic times: battle legends; The Book of Crowns on; and Labid; and love: chaste; profane; myths. See myths; poetry in; prose in; rupture in conventions; studies on; tales
prose: and assemblies; and broad society; development of; irony in; language in khabar; and linguistic change; and love story; and mythic tales; poetry vs. prose
supernatural: in Christianity; in folk epics; in pre-Islamic tales; and the Prophet’s ascension to Heaven; tales of
truth, veracity in Islamic literature:
Umayyad period: change in lifestyle; decimination of Umayyad dynasty; evolution of humor; as formative period; love in; new cities in; and poetic conventions; as romantic age; as age of satire; three centers of literature
urban/urbanization:
women:; in comic tales; in love stories; in pre-Islamic tales; in tales of rulers; in strange tales; in tales of warfare
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