INDEX

Abbasids 2, 34, 104, 127 Akwāʿ, Ismāʿīl al- 58n, 119n, 260 ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Muḥammad 250, 252 Akwāʿ, Muḥammad al- 308 ʿAbdalī, Aḥmad Faḍl “al-Qūmandān” ʿAlawī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ibrāhīm 251, 275 al- 23, 25, 128, 170n ʿAbīd b. al-Abras ̣ 128 ʿAlawī, ʿUmar b. ʿAlī al- 12 ablutions 119– 120 Aleppo 201– 202 Abraham 152n ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. See Banū Hāshim Abyaḍ, Yaḥyā 232 Alkabets, Shlomo 160, 165, 166, 167 Abū Bakr (caliph) 102 allegory. See Shabazian poetry, esoteric Abu Lughod, Lila 100 signification Abū Mutlaq̣ 130 Alliance Israelite Universelle 222, 237n Abū Nuwās. See also khamriyyah 84, Almog, Aharon 284– 289, 297, 298 113, 137, 202, 203 Aloni, Betsalel 283 Abū l-Ṭaḥātiḥ. See Ibn al-Ḥasan, Alphabet of Rabbi ʿAkiva 205 Mutahhaṛ ʿAmar, Sulaymān 232 Abū Ṭālib, Muḥsin b. al-Ḥasan 77, American Civil War 65 103, 143 Amiḥai, Yehudah 284, 288 Abū Tammām 11 ʿĀmir, ʿAbdallāh Aḥmad 62 Abulafia, Avraham 152 ʿĀmir, ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad “Hādī” acrostics. See Shabazī, Sālim (Shalem) 248 al- sub acrostics Amīr, ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al- 67n, adab 12n, 13, 139, 140, 141 103– 104, 117 ʿAdaqī, Yeḥiʾel 239, 278n, 279, 281n ʿAmmārī, ʿAlī b. Sāliḥ ̣ al- 76, 79 Aden 3, 5, 31n, 94, 130, 149, 151n, amulets 196, 221n 220n, 248, 249, 250, 254, 255, 256n, ʿAnbarī, Abū Bakr al- 127 257, 268, 274 animals. See birds, camels, cats, dogs, Adeni Music Club 250, 254 gazelles Afandī, Majd al- 13– 14 Ānisī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al- 30– 31, Afikim (“Springs”) 280 41– 42, 52n, 123, 126, 169, 244 ʿĀfish 91 Ānisī, Aḥmad b. Aḥmad al- 73n, 78, Africa: African languages in humayni 79, 126 poetry 61– 62. See also akhdām, Ānisī, Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān 123 Ethiopia, Niger, Somalia, Tihāmah, Ānisī, ʿAlī al- 249n, 256n, 268 Tuareg ʿAnsī, ʿAbdallāh al- 244 Age of Decline 2, 107– 115, 300, 301 ʿAnsī, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al- 40– 41, Āghā, Ḥ aydar b. Muḥammad 14n, 44, 73n, 80, 100, 103, 112– 113, 115, 73n, 123, 125 124, 126, 129, 159, 169, 252, 260, 300, Aghbarī, ʿAbd al-Ilāh al- 244 308– 309 agriculture 46, 48– 49, 68, 251, 265, ʿAntar b. Shaddād 118 266, 267, 268, 271, 273 ʿAntarī, Sāliḥ ̣ al- 249n Ahdal, Ḥ ātim b. Aḥmad al- 86, 129, anthropomorphism. See also Dor 170n, 171n Deʿah movement, rejection of Aḥmad (Imam). See Ḥamīd al-Dīn, Aḥmad anthropomorphism 110, 197, 198, Aḥqāf Library 8 206, 225, 228, 240 ʿAjamī, ʿAwnī al- 314– 315 antithesis 29, 50, 53 akhdām 253 apocalypticism. See also messianism Akhfash, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad 78 81, 181– 183 342 index archangels. See also Gabriel 81, 204 Bashshār b. Burd 126n architecture 26n, 76, 288 Bat Galim 186, 198 Argov (ʿOrkabi), Zohar 281n, 282 bathhouses 53, 54, 118, 147, 237n Aristotle 118 Bayḍāʾ, al- 264– 265, 272 ʿAshabī, al-Mahdī b. Muḥammad al- 78 Bayḥānī, ʿAbdallāh al- 130 Ashʿarī, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al- 12 bedouin 38– 39, 41, 100, 128, 131– 132, Ashwal, Sāliḥ ̣ Muḥammad al- 259 134, 265, 312 Ashkelon 284 Begin, Menachem 280 Ashkenazi, Avraham b. Yitsḥak Behnstedt, Peter xiii, xv 164– 165, 166 Ben Gurion, David 282 ʿAsṛ al-inḥitāṭ .̣ See Age of Decline Ben Ḥ aim (Frankenburger), Paul 277, Association for the Advancement of 278 Society and Culture 231 Ben Ḥ alfon, Avraham 183n astronomy 3n, 149n, 200, 237n Ben Ḥ alfon, Yosef b. Avigad 151 Atlās,̣ Natāsha 283 Ben Mosh, Moshe 281 ʿAtṭ āb,̣ Aḥmad al- 249n Ben Yisrael Mashta, Yosef 151n, 155, ʿAtrūsḥ 255 156, 161, 162, 227 ʿAydarūs, Abū Bakr b. ʿAbdallāh Bene Teman 278n al- 26, 85, 170n Berlin 3n, 4, 277, 278 ʿAydarūs, ʿAbd al-Qādir 129n Bezalel Academy 280 ʿAydarūs, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Musṭ afạ̄ Bible, Hebrew. See also Abraham, David, al- 170n Esau, Golden Calf, Hagar, Ishmael, ayumah. See under Song of Songs Jonah, Joseph, Laban, Moses, Pharaoh, Rachel, Sinai, Song of Songs, Bā Dhīb, ʿAbdallāh 250 Temple, Wisdom literature 156, 192, Bā Faqīh, Abū Bakr Sālim 252 226, 294 Bā Makhramah, ʿUmar b. ʿAbdallāh Bilqīs 257 170– 171, 175– 176 Biʾr al-ʿazab 53– 56 Bā Sadīq,̣ Ḥ usayn Sālim 245n, 250– 251 birds: doves 47– 48, 55, 91, 100, 117, Bā Sharaḥīl, ʿAlī Abū Bakr 249 189; nightingales 54n, 84, 204; Bacher, Wilhelm 3, 150, 156, 159, 162, owls 117, 128, 189; partridges 204 163, 169, 185, 215 Black Panthers 280 Badīḥī, Avraham 232 Boskovitch, Alexander U. 277, 278 Baghdad 165, 237n, 250 Britain 3, 220n, 222, 247n, 248, 250, Bahāʾ Zuhayr, al- 112, 113, 137 251, 254, 255, 289, 294 Bahrain 76 Brockelmann, Karl 159 Bahrān, Mūsā b. Yaḥyā 26 Brod, Max 277 Baḥya b. Asher 152, 191 Buḥturī, al-Walīd b. ʿUbayd al- 137 Baḥya b. Pekudah 230 Burāq, al-. See Isrā Bakhtin, Mikhail 46, 64– 65 Burʿī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. ʿAlī al- 170n Bakīl (tribal confederation) 46, 47, 62, Buthaynah 41 63n, 83, 118n, 258, 274 Baladī rite 220 Cachia, Pierre 36, 115 bāniyān (Hindu merchants) 54 Cairo 250, 260 Banū ʿAwlaq 136 Cairo Genizah 5, 150 Banū Ḍubyān 271 camels 31, 42, 43, 97, 99, 133, 170, Banū al-Ḥ ārith 53 286– 288 Banū Hāshim 60, 72, 93, 94, 110, 111 Caro, Joseph 164, 165 Banū Ḥ ushaysh 260 Caspi, Mishael Maswari 101 Banū Malkhaj 83 cassette tapes 246n, 249, 274, 281 Banū Milakhfaj 83 cats 136n, 143, 248 Bar Yohai, Shimʿon 166, 217, 221, Chelhod, Joseph 92 227n, 228 children 16, 52n, 57, 58n, 147, 182, Baraddūnī, ʿAbdallāh al- 253, 265 261– 3