by Tamim Ansary
Alp Arslan
Amanullah
Amir Kabir (Mirza Taqi)
Amorites
Amr ibn al-A’as
Amra bin Abdul Rahman
Ansar (“the Helpers”)
Ansary, Tamim
childhood/background
world history/Islamic world and
Antony, Mark
Apostate Wars
Arab nationalism See also Pan-Arab nationalism
Arab Revolt (World War I) (fig.)
Arabian Nights
Arabic language
Arabs
early trade(fig.)
as Semitic
violence and
Arafat, Yasser
Aramaic language
Aristotle
Armenians
assassination of three Pashas
massacre of
in Ottoman Empire
Arslan, Kilij
Asharite school
Asia Minor
before/following Crusades
Sufism and
See also Ottoman Empire
Assassins, Cult of
Assyrians
Aswan Dam
Atatürk
Atlantic Charter
Attila
Aurangzeb
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ayatollah definition
Ayesha
Azam Khan, Prince
Azzam, Abdullah
Ba’ath party
Ba’ath Socialist Party
Babur
Babylon/Babylonian empires
Bacon, Francis
Badr battle
Baghdad
building
during Abbasid age
Mongols’ destruction/killings
Baldwin, King of Edessa
Balfour, Arthur James
Balshazzar
Banna, Hassan al-
Banu Hashim clan
Banu Qurayza
Baraka of Mohammed
Barbarossa, Frederick
Basilic cannon
Battle of the Camel
Battle of the Moat
Bayazid I
Baybars, Zahir
Bearden, Milton
Behistun
Bektash
Berke
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
Bin Laden, Osama
Bismarck, Otto von
Bolsheviks
Book of Kings, The (Shanama/Firdausi)
Book of Unity, The (Kitab-al-Tawhid /Abdul Wahhab)
Borsoki, al-
Boyle, Robert
British Petroleum (BP)
Buddhism
Bukhari
Bush, George W., administration
Buyid family
Byzantine Empire/Byzantines (fig.)
Caesar, Julius
Calligraphy
Camel, Battle of
Canning, Stratford
Capitulations to Europeans
Catherine the Great
Chaldeans
Chaldiran battle
Charlemagne
Chemistry foundations
Chengez Khan
background/description
invasions
China
before Islam
industrialization/labor and
Mongols and
Christian fundamentalists
Christianity
early expansion
monastic orders
Roman Empire split and
significant events of
See also Crusades; Orthodox Christianity; Roman Church
Churchill, Winston
Civil War, U.S. (1860-1864)
“Clash of civilizations”
Class divisions (1900s)
cultural divisions
description/effects
Clive, Robert
Cold War effects
Collection of All Histories (Rashid al-Din)
Columbus, Christopher
Committee for Union and Progress (CUP)
“Composite” bows
Comte, Auguste
Constantinople
Byzantine fire
description(fig.)
Ottomans’ taking
symbolic significance
See also Istanbul
Constitutionalism
democracy and
Iran
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Copernicus
Córdoba
Cornwallis, General
“Cradle of civilization”
Crassus
Crosthwaite, Sir Charles
Crusades
alignments
Assassins and
Christian pilgrimages and
crusader states
first contact
Fourth Crusade
“Franj” term
Jerusalem
jihad proponents
landless noblemen and
Muslim disunity
Muslim unity
Nicaea fall
Northern Crusade
overview/effects
residues of
Second Crusade
slaughter/atrocities by Franj
theater of(fig.)
Third Crusade
trade following
Curtin, Philip D.
Da Vinci, Leonardo
Dabashi, Hamid
Daniel
Daquq
Dar al-Funun
Dar al-Islam
Dar al-Harb vs.
description
D’Arcy, William Knox
Darius (“the Great”)
David and Goliath
Democracy
Atlantic Charter
constitutionalism and
Iran
Islam-West relationship (today) and
Jamaluddin-i-Afghan
oil and
Turkey
Deobandis
Dervishes
Descartes, René
Desert Storm
Devshirme program
Diaz, Bartholomew
Din-i Illahi (“the God Religion”)
Diocletian
Dress code
Dulles, John Foster
Duval, Pierre
East India Companies/Company
Egypt
cotton market and
defeat of Mongols
following World War I
French/British competition over
mamluk rule
Mohammed Ali and
Napoleon and
status See also Nasser, Gamal Abdul
Eisenhower, Ike
End of History and the Last Man, The (Fukuyama)
Engels, Friedrich
English longbow
Ethnic cleansing, UN definition
Eunuchs
Europe (1291-1600 CE)
Americas and
books’ significance
crusading spirit
kings’ significance
mercantilism
merchants’ status
nation-state emergence
patrons of art
Protestant reformation/reformation
science developments
seafaring prowess
trade/route to Indies (fig.)
university beginnings
Europe (1500-1800 CE)/Islamic world
European advisors
European competition
European dominance summary
“Great Game,” (fig.)
India trade
internal politics and
military technology and
private European companies
relationship complexity
sea routes(fig.)
trade(fig.)
Europe at time of Crusades
innovations/effects
land inheritance
Muslims’ view of
subsistence living
See also Crusades
Faisal
Farabi, al-
Farangi Christians
Fatehpur Sikri
Fatima
Fatimids/khalifate(fig.)
Fatwas
Fedayeen
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Firdausi
Firmest Bond, The (journal)
Fly swatter affair
Fourteen Points (Wilson)
Franj Wars See also Crusades
French Revolution
Fukuyama, Francis
Gabriel, angel
Galen
Galileo
Gama, Vasco da
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gelvin, James L.
Genghis Khan. See Chengez Khan
Genocide
George-Picot, Francois(fig.)
Ghazali
Ghazan, Mahmoud
Ghazi emirates/orders
Ghaznavid dynasty
Gibbon, Edward
Gillespie, April
Ginsberg, Alan
Gökalp, Ziya
Gold from Americas
Golden Age of Islam See also Abbasid age; Umayyad khalifate, Andalusian
“Great Game, The,” (fig.)
Great Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
Great Wall of China
Greco-Buddhist art
Greek language
Guilds
Guns’ first use
Hadith
Hafsa
Haganah
Hager
Hajj as Islamic pillar
Hallaj, al-
Halliday, Denis
Hamas
Hamid, Sultan
Hamid II, Sultan
Hamzah
Hanafi school
Hanbali school
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Hanifa, Abu
Harems
Haroun al-Rashid
Harvey, William
Hashimites
description
rebellion against Umayyads
World War I and
Hassan (Ali’s son)
Hassan Sabbah
Hebrew language
Henry the Navigator, Prince
Herder, Johann
Herf, Jeffrey
Herzl, Theodor
Hess, Moses
Hezbollah
Hidden Imam
Hijra
Hind
Hinduism/Hindus
Hisdai ibn Shaprut
History of the Prophets and Kings (Tabari)
Hulagu
Humanists
Hume, David
Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453)
Huns
Huss, Johann
Hussein
martyrdom(fig.)
Shi’ism and
Hussein, Saddam
Ibn al-Athir
Ibn al-Haytham
Ibn al-Nafis
Ibn Hanbal
Ibn Ishaq
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Ibn Taymiyah
Idolatry
Ijma
Ijtihad
Il-Khan dynasty
Imam
Hidden Imam
meaning
Shi’ism and
Incoherence of the Incoherence, The (Ibn Rushd)
Incoherence of the Philosophers, The (Ghazali)
Independence movements overview
India
British rule
bullet grease issue
fragmentation of
Great Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
Hindu/Muslim relationship
independence
Moghul Empire and
trade with Europeans
Indulgences of the Church
Industrialization
China and
Industrial Revolution/Europe
Iran (after 1840s)
Islamic world and
social context and
women and
Intifadas
Iran
American hostages
Book of Kings, The (Firdausi) and
British/Russian zones of influence
CIA coup/Shah
education
European deals/control
industrialization
nationalism and
oil
Qajar dynasty
revolution background/outcome
secular modernism
Shi’ism
views of U.S.
war with Iraq See also Safavids of Persia
Iraq
creation
Kuwait annexation/effects
oil
Saddam Hussein
UN sanctions
U.S. war against
war with Iran/U.S. support See also Mesopotamia
Isfahan
Ishmael
Islam
broad meaning of
community vs. personal salvation
description/lifestyle (seventeenth century)(fig.)
at end of Omar’s khalifate
growth of(fig.)
shared references
stories/lessons and
as “the world”
three khalifates (fig.)
Islam beginnings
battle success reasons
battles
conversions to
documentation/stories
as political entity
religious freedom and See also specific individuals
Islam in Modern History (Smith)
Islam-West relationship (today)
democracy and
incompatibilities
religion and
views of each other
women’s role
Islamic doctrine/law
after Mohammed’s death
argument by analogy
core creed and
during Mohammed’s life
five pillars
Omar and
shades of gray and
structure(fig.) See also Hadith; Qur’an; Scholars; Shari’a; Ulama
Islamic Jihad
Islamic Salvation Party
“Islamic Socialism”
Ismail (Egypt)
Ismail (Safavid)
Isma’ilis (Seveners)
Israel
birth(fig.)
U.S. support
See also Palestinian-Israeli conflict; Zionism
Istanbul See also Constantinople
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Third
Jahan, Shah (Just King)
Jalaludin-i Rumi
Jamaluddin-i-Afghan
background
career/beliefs
influence/disciples
“non-aligned movement”
pan-Islamism
tobacco concession/boycott
Janissaries
Jawali
Jerusalem
Crusades
Muslim conquest of
Jews
discrimination of
early history
Nazis and
orthodox Judaism See also Israel; Palestinian-Israeli conflict; Zionism
Jihad
Ali/Ayesha conflict and
Crusades and
Ibn Taymiyah views
meanings
Omar and
Umayyad Empire and
Wahhabism
“Jihadists”
Jizya
Junayd, al-
Juzjani
Ka’ba temple
Kabir (poet)
Kalendar/Kalendari brotherhoods
Kant, Immanuel
Karbala and Hussein(fig.)
Kashmir
Kemal, Mustafa. See Atatürk
Kerouac, Jack
Khadija
Khaled bin al-Walid
Khalifates
Rightly Guided Khalifas
three khalifates (fig.) See also specific khalifates
Kharijites
Khomeini, Ayatollah
&
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Khusrow, Anushervan
Khwarazm-Shahs kingdom
Kindi, al-
Kipling, Rudyard
Kitab-al-Tawhid (The Book of Unity/Abdul Wahhab)
Knights Hospitaller
Kurds/Kurdish language
Kuwait and Iraq
Language
nation-states and See also specific languages
Latin language
Lawrence, Thomas Edward (“Lawrence of Arabia”)
League of Nations
Lebanon
France and
Israeli invasions
Leibniz, Gottfried
Lenin, Vladimir
Lepanto battle (1571)
Levant
Lewis, Bernard
Lincoln, Abraham
Luther, Martin
Madrassas
Mahdi (“expected one”)
Maher, Bill
Mahmud, Sultan
Malik, Ibn
Malik Shah, Sultan
Maliki school
Malouf, Amin
Mamluk rule, Egypt
Mamluks
Mandates plan(fig.)
Mansur as khalifa
Manzikert battle (1071 CE)
Marathas
Maronite Christians
Marwan
Marx, Karl
Masud, Sultan
Mathematics
Mathnawi Ma’nawi (Jalaludin-i Rumi)
Mazzini, Joseph
Mecca
battles with Medina
Mohammed’s birth/early life
pilgrimages
religion as business
Medicine foundation/innovations
Medina
Mohammed’s work in
Pact of Medina See also Yathrib
Mediterranean world
before Islam(fig.)
Middle World and
Mehmet, Sultan/“the Conqueror”
Mercantilism
Meritocracy
Mesopotamia
Michelangelo
Middle World
before Islam(fig.)
Mediterranean world and
“Middle East” and
overland routes(fig.)
Milestones (Qutb)
Mirza Habib
Mirza Taqi (Amir Kabir)
Moat, Battle of the
Modernity
description See also Secular modernism
Moghul Empire
art/architecture
decline
Din-i Illahi (“the God Religion”)
guns/gunpowder and
Hindus and
India and
intolerance/restoration of Islam
overview/leaders
religious/universal tolerance,
192-193 territory
See also specific areas/countries
Mohammed
baraka of
birth/early life
death
miracles and
move to Yathrib (Medina)
plots against
revelations
sermons/beliefs
work in Medina
Monads
Moneylending
Mongols
origins/lifestyle
technology/strategy See also specific individuals
Mongols/Islamic world
Assassins and
conversion to Islam
defeat by Egypt
impacts
invasions/genocide (fig.)
Montesquieu, Charles
