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Mawlana Abdul-Sattar B. Qasim of Lahor index 379 INDEX Aaron 146, 147, 216 Antwerp 112 %Abbas I, Shah 40 Anusharwan, Khusraw I 30 %Abd al-Samad 59, 133 Anvār-i Suhaylī (Lights of Canopus) 82, 131 %Abd al-Sattar b. Qasim Lahawri (Mawlana %Abdul-Sattar b. Apocryphal gospels 1, 2, 20, 27, 29, 31, 76, 78, 124, 141, 144, Qasim of Lahore) 12, 240 149, 150, 228, 239: Acta Pilati (Acts of Pilate; found as an Abgar dynasty 33 appendix to the Gospel of Nicodemus) 20, 231; Acta Sancti Abgar V 6, 29–31, 33–35, 43, 108, 124–25, 139, 172, 205–6, 228 Maris (Acts of Mari) 30; Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of Abraham 28, 148–49, 151, 154, 161, 184, 200, 203, 208, 210, 232 the Savior 29, 158; Doctrina Addai (Doctrine of Addai) 30; Abu al-Fazl %Allami 39, 40, 48 Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew 29, 76, 131, 141; Libellus de Nati- Acquaviva, S.J., Father Claudio (General of the Order) 7, 15–18, vitate Sanctae Mariae (Book of the Birth of Saint Mary) 29; 41, 43, 46–48, 67. See also General Protoevangelium of St. James 76, 131, 141, 143, 149 Acquaviva, S.J., Father Rudolf 2 Apostasy (of princes) 12 Adam 28, 36, 66, 72, 146, 228, 237 Aqa Riza 68, 133 Addai 30–31, 44, 206. See also Doctrina Addai Aquinas. See Thomas Aquinas, Saint Agiscoa (possibly Khan-i A%zam Mirza %Aziz Koka) 40 Arabia 88, 154 Agra 1, 6, 7, 17–18, 19, 20, 23, 39, 47–48, 55, 59, 67–70, 102, Arabic language 3, 30, 34, 36–37, 137–38, 147, 166, 194, 200; 131–35, 141, 240 script 94 Agresti, Livio 18 Arabs 34, 55, 88, 154, 156, 238 Ahab 110, 171, 185 Arāis al-majālis fī qia al-anbiyā 62 Āīna-i aqq-numā (The Truth-revealing Mirror) 11, 12, 141 Aramaic language 142, 165, 186, 228 Aisha (wife of the Prophet) 139 Arms 214: daggers 88, 102, 118, 133 Akbar: interest in religion ix, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 19, 20, 22, 27, 37, 39, Arrivabene, Andrea 37 62, 66–67, 137; interest in prints/paintings 2, 4, 8, 12, 35, 39, Ashuri, Seyyid Lokman 66 Asiatic Society of Bengal 22, 41 49, 51–52, 56, 62, 67, 128, 144; relationship with the Jesuits Augustine, Saint 44, 231–32 1–3, 6, 7, 11–13, 16, 22, 37, 56, 128; correspondence with/ Augustus 32, 150–53, 161. See also Caesar, Octavius of 3, 7, 8, 45, 56 Aurangzeb 40 Akbarnāma (History of Akbar) 4, 69, 118, 133–34 Azevedo, D. Jerónimo de (Viceroy at Goa) 13 Alanquwa (legendary Mongol princess) 39 Albuquerque, Brás de 28 Babur 4 Commentaries Albuquerque, D. Afonso de: of 28; painting of 135 Bāburnāma (Memoirs of Babur) 4 Albuquerque, D. Matias de (Viceroy at Goa) 3, 7 Babylon 137, 153, 160 Alcalá 9, 14 Badauni, Abdul Qadir 6, 8 Alcázar, S.J., Bartolomé de 17, 20 Bahāristān (Abode of Spring) 131 Alegambe, S.J., Philippe 20, 40 Bahawalpur 23 Ali, Nusrat 23 Bailey, Gauvin Alexander 18, 23–25 Allahabad: Salim at 1, 39, 40, 56, 60–62, 82; scriptorium Banu Qaynuqa 63 (kitābkhāna) of 1, 42, 56, 58–62, 68, 70, 82, 98, 131–32 Baptism 54, 56, 63, 137–38, 163, 168, 215, 232 Álvares, S.J., Father João 8, 18, 48, 67–70, 90, 132, 134 Baronius, Cardinal 31 Álvares, S.J., Father Manuel 28 Barradas, Sebastião 14 Ananias 30, 43, 124–25, 205–6 Basel 31, 37 Anatolians 34, 238 al-Basri, Hasan 8 Angamaly 9, 13 Bassein 9 Angels 38, 50, 70, 80, 98–99, 108, 120, 132–33, 145, 151, 164–65, Beire 9 187, 189, 195, 197, 204, 207, 217–19, 223, 234, 237 Berlin Album 135 Anis, Khalid 23 Bethany 162, 185, 198, 206, 211, 219, 237, 314 Anna the Prophetess 157 Bethlehem 32, 45, 82, 84, 90, 141, 150–53, 155, 159 Anna, Saint 74, 141–42, 158 Bethsaida 165, 185, 192, 195 Anti-Semitism 34, 220 Bible: Douay-Rheims ix, 28, 43, 139; Latin Vulgate ix, 25, 29, Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Seleucid ruler) 160 137, 139, 227; Polyglot Bible 2, 28, 32, 52; Sistine 43; con- 380 index cordances of 28; Lutheran translations 18; Protestants and Damão. See Daman the 27; as regarded by Muslims 36 Das, Kesu 98, 131, 133 Binney 3rd, Edwin 23, 42 Dāstān-i awāl-i awāriyān-i a@rat-i Īsa wa @ikr-i manāqib-i al-Biruni 63 īshān (History of the Vicissitudes of the Apostles of the Lord Blochmann, H. 22, 25, 33, 41, 45 Jesus and Commemoration of their Virtues) 239 Bom Jesus, Church of (Goa) 34, 46 Dāstān-i Masī (or Mirāt al-quds) 13, 17, 23, 138 Bonaventura, Saint 14, 18 Dawlat (Mughal painter) 69 Buddha, the 63 Deccan 1, 11, 133 Buland Darwarza (Fatehpur Sikri) 6, 8 Desideri, S.J., Father Ippolito 17 Būstān of Sa%di 72, 128 Diamper, Synod of 15 Byzantine Empire 124, 134, 158 Dieu, Ludovico de 4–6, 13, 20–22, 25, 27, 40–41, 141, 224. See also Historia Christi Persice Conscripta, Historia S. Petri, and Cabral, S.J., Father Francisco 7, 16–17, 67 Rudimenta Linguae Persicae Caesar, Julius 82, 150 Dīn-i Ilāhī 6, 59 Caesar, Octavius 150, 152, 159. See also Augustus Discalced Carmelites 40, 48 Caesar, Tiberius 45, 227, 239 Diu 7 Cajetan, Cardinal Thomas 28 Dīwān of Amir Hasan Dihlawi 82, 102 Calcutta. See Kolkata Divorce 5, 38, 48, 182 Calendars: Gregorian 5, 32, 124, 135, 142; ilāhī 142 Diyarbekir 34, 46, 238 Cambay. See Khambhat Doctrina Addai 30 Camps, S.J., Arnulf 13, 23, 42, 45, 47, 239 Dome of the Rock 8 Cana, Marriage at 29, 166, 171 Dove 54, 71, 96, 162. See also Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost) Candles, use of 158 Capernaum 108, 166, 171, 173–74, 185, 192–93, 197 Edessa 6, 29, 30–31, 33–34, 44–45, 124, 135, 139, 205–6 Caravaggio 102 Egypt 29, 46, 102, 151, 156, 158–60, 168, 199, 221, 238, 266–67 Castilians 10 Elijah 28, 35, 38, 43, 46, 54, 110, 162, 171–72, 185, 191, 195–97, Castro, S.J., Father C. de 16 230 Caulibus, Johannes de 18 Elisha 28, 172–73 Celestine IV, Pope 142 Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist) 146–49 Chaghatai, M. Abdullah 23 English (people) 13 Chaul 7, 17 Ephraim Syrus 45 Chennai 31 Estado da Índia 3, 7, 10, 15, 48, 135 Chingīznāma (History of Chinggis [Ghenghis]) 4 Eusebius of Caesarea 29–30 Chios 45 Evagrius Scholasticus 30 Christ: divinity of 8, 30, 36–38, 86, 96, 152–53, 155, 231, 236; son of God 37–38, 96, 141, 146, 148, 150, 163–65, 168–69, 174, Fālnāma (Book of Omens) 66 177–78, 192, 195–96, 198, 201, 206, 218–19, 224–25, 227–29, Faria e Sousa, Manuel de 13 231; in the Koran 3, 8, 28, 36–39, 46–47, 57, 63, 65, 71 Farman 3, 8 Christians 2, 12, 17, 28, 35–36, 38, 55, 86, 93, 137, 142, 148, 152, Fatehpur Sikri 2, 6, 7–8, 39, 48, 52, 55 156, 158–59, 161, 212, 230, 239; Saint Thomas Christians 9, Felippe, Iacome 56 15, 17, 31; Orthodox Christians 31 Fernandez, S.J., Father Francisco 7, 16 Clement VIII, Pope 3, 7, 43 Firdawsi 3. See also Shāhnāma Clement XIV, Pope 7 Franciscans, Order of the 68, 153 Cochin. See Kochi Fridays: importance of 38, 142, 148; Good Friday 16, 38, 232 Cologne 46, 156 Frontispiece (Mirāt al-quds) 61, 70, 367–68, 369 Company of Jesus. See Society of Jesus Constantinople 135. See also Istanbul Gahlin, Sven 25, 368 Coromandel Coast 31 Galle, Philip 98 Cort, Cornelis 68, 131 Gelasius, Pope 45 Costa, S.J., Father Tristão da 15 General (head of the Jesuit order) 7, 9–11, 32, 36–37, 39, 46. See Cranganore. See Kodungallur also Acquaviva, S.J., Father Claudio Cypros (Herod’s mother) 154 Gennesaret 112, 166, 174, 192; Sea of 166 Cyrenius 82, 150 Gentiles 12, 156, 157, 178, 182, 189, 190, 202, 210, 218, 263–64, Cyrus 137, 160, 185 291 Ghiyath al-Din, Sultan 8 Daman 7, 48 Giotto 18, 131.
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