Index of Persons and Dynasties

Abbasid (caliphs) 34–36, 36n, 37, 39, 39n, ʿAbd al-Malik II (Samanid) 109f 40, 40n, 41, 41n, 42–47, 47n, 48, 48n, 49–52, ʿAbd al-Qahhār (sect leader; 782/4) 200 54, 56, 58, 64, 93, 96, 137, 141, 141n, 142, ʿAbd Rabbih al-Kabīr (Azraqite) 23 146–148, 148n, 149f, 154, 158, 167,169, 171f, ʿAbd Rabbihi (Azraqite) 168 178, 178n, 179, 180, 189f, 190n, 192, 196–198, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (brother of Qutayba) 30, 32 200, 213, 222, 223n, 228f, 229n, 230, 248, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (Raḥīm) (officer) 72, 72n 253n, 256, 257n, 267, 274, 283, 289, 299, 303, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jabala (officer) 56, 73 307, 311, 319, 322–324, 326n, 327, 332, 337, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mufliḥ (officer) 73 342–344, 348, 348n, 349n, 350, 352, 355, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn 358, 363, 365, 372n, 373, 374n, 412, 416, 417n, al-Ashʿath (rebel) 24, 24n, 146 418, 418n, 419, 420, 431n, 435f, 436n, 443f, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muslim see Abū Muslim 447, 455n, 470, 482, 485, 487, 488n, 489, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Samura (general) 18 494, 502n, 504, 513, 513n, 515, 517n ʿAbd al-Rashīd (= Shams Dīn Allāh) ʿAbd Allāh (brother of Bābak) 63 (Ghaznavid) 124n ʿAbd Allāh (father of Bābak) 201 Abraha (South Arabian king) 164n ʿAbd Allāh (Fatimid) 172n Abraham (Buyid secretary) 335 ʿAbd Allāh (Ispāhbadh from Abū ’l-ʿAbbās see al-Saffāḥ Ṭabaristan) 221n Abū ’l-ʿAbbās Maʾmūn ibn Maʾmūn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Kurayz 17 (Khwarazm-shāh) 108 ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī (mystic) 238n Abū ’l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (author) 289 ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khāzim (Qaysite leader in Abū ʿAlī (ibn Sharaf al-Dawla) 104 Khurasan) 27n, 412 Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan see Rukn al-Dawla ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn (ibn Abū Shākir Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan . . . b. Abī Hurayra Maymūn) 172f (scholar) 262n ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muʿāwiya (Alid) 40, 43f, 179 Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad see Ḥasanak ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak (scholar) 150 Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Iljās (ruler of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Persian: Rōzbih) Kirman) 100 (scholar) 135, 186, 233n, 291, 291n Abū ʿAlī ibn Muḥtāj (governor) 94–97 ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabaʾ (ʿAlī admirer) 177 Abū Bakr (caliph) 6 ʿAbd Allāh al-Sijizī (general) 72f Abu Bakr Muḥammad . . . al-Bayhaqī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir (Ṭāhirid 828–44) 60, (scholar) 262n 65, 65n, 66, 68, 68n, 153n, 163n, 234, 245, Abū Bakr al-Qaffāl al-Shāshī (scholar) 262n 268n, 326, 336n, 344n, 347n, 371, 375n, 384, Abū Dāʾūd (officer) 43 386, 427 Abū Dāʾūd Sulaymān al-Sijistānī ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr (rival caliph (scholar) 262n 680–92) 22, 26f, 412, 413 Abū Dāʾūdites (dynasty in Balkh) 312n ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (brother of ʿAbd al-Malik) 22 Abū ’l-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sulamī ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (ibn al-Walīd I) 32 see al-Sulamī ʿAbd al-Malik (Umayyad caliph Abū ’l-Fawāris Qavām al-Dawla see Qavām 685–705) 27, 244, 316n, 414, 423 al-Dawla ʿAbd al-Malik I ibn Nūḥ (Samanid) 99, 507 Abū ’l-Fawāris Shēzīl see Sharaf al-Dawla

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Abū Jaʿfar see al-Manṣūr Abū Nuwās (poet) 232 Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 85, 514n Abū ’l-Qāsim (son of a vizir of Kirman) 117 Abū Ḥafṣ ʿAmr II ibn Yaʿqūb (Ṣaffārid) 84n Abū ’l-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Mīlkālī Abū ’l-Ḥasan (Zaydi) see al-Nāṣir (fighter for the faith, d. 986) 501n Abū ’l-Ḥasan Aḥmad see Muʿizz al-Dawla Abū ’l-Qāsim Yūsuf ibn Dēvdādh Abū ’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī see ʿImād al-Dawla (Sājid) 304n Abū ’l-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Sīmjūr see Abū ’l-Qāsim al-Qushayrī (scholar) 262n Sīmjūr Abū Sahl al-Ḥamdūnī (governor) 122 Abū ’l-Ḥasan Naṣr II see Naṣr II Abū Salama al-Khallāl Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān Abū ’l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad see Tāj al-Dawla (Abbasid missionary) 35 Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl ibn Nūḥ see al-Muntaṣir Abū Shākir Maymūn al-Dayṣānī (Maymūn Abū ʿIkrima al-Sarrāj see Abū Muḥammad al-Qaddāḥ) (Ismaʿili) 172, 172n Ziyād al-Ṣādiq Abū ’l-Shawk Ḥusām al-Dawla Fāris (ruler of Abū ʿĪsā (son of the Kurdish ruler Badr) Qurmīsīn) 126 113 Abū Shujāʿ see Sultān al-Dawla Abū Isḥaq ibn Alptigin (general) 102 Abū Shujāʿ Būya ibn Panā(h)khosrau Abū Ishāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Shahrijār (Buyid) 91, 162n, 380, 447n al-Kāzarūnī (mystic) 142 Abū Ṭāhir see Jalāl al-Dawla Abū Kālījār see Ṣamṣām al-Dawla Abū Ṭāhir see Shams al-Dawla Abū Kālījār Anōshirvān (Ziyārid) Abū Tāhir Pērōzshāh see Żiyāʾ al-Dawla see Anōshirvān Abū Ṭalḥa Manṣūr ibn Sharkab Abū Kālījār Kershāsp (Kākuyid) see Kershāsp (dynast) 75f, 78 Abū Kālījar Marzbān ʿImād al-Dīn Abū Ṭālib Rōstam see Majd al-Dawla (Buyid) 117, 122, 125, 125n, 126f, 175, 359 Abū ʿUbayd (Allāh) Muḥammad Afshīn ibn Abū ’l-Khaṣīb (rebel) 53 Abī ’l-Sāj (governor) 82 Abū ’l-Maḥāsin al-Rūyānī (scholar) 262n Abū ʿUbayda al-Thaqafī (general) 8 Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Malik al-Thaʿālibī Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh (Rāhōē) (author) 245n (scholar) 262n Abū Manṣūr ibn ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla (ruler of Abū Yūsuf (author of the Kitāb Isfahan, then Yazd) 127 al-Kharāj) 450 Abū Manṣūr Bakhtiyār see ʿIzz al-Dawla Abū Zayd al-Dabūsī (scholar) 262n Abū Manṣūr Pōlādh Sutūn see Pōlādh Sutūn Achaemenid (dynasty) 3, 234f, 300, 308n, Abū Mikhnaf (chronicler) 27n, 28n 315n, 320, 333, 337n, 362, 364, 426, 454, Abū Muḥammad al-Juvaynī (scholar) 454n 262n Adam (Biblical) 198 Abū Muḥammad Ziyād al-Ṣādiq (Abbasid ʿAḍud al-Dawla Panā(h)khosrau (Buyid) 99, missionary) 35, 36n 99n, 100, 100n, 101, 101n, 102f, 105n, 129, 152, Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī (general) 14, 17 158, 166n, 190n, 211n, 212, 255n, 260, 263, Abū Muslim (Abbasid chief missionary) 39, 267, 267n, 268n, 285n, 287, 296n, 319n, 39n, 40, 40n, 41–43, 43n, 47, 47n, 48, 48n, 320n, 330, 334, 337n, 344n, 345, 352, 355, 49f, 52, 147, 161n, 196, 198, 198n, 201f, 204n, 358, 358n, 360n, 367n, 389, 393n, 421, 427, 205, 222, 229n, 307n, 318, 336, 342f, 343, 429, 441n, 461, 464n, 492 344n, 354, 364n, 385n, 489, 498n, 499n, Afrāsiyāb (mythical king) 354 502n, 504 Āfrīghid (dynasty) 31, 108 Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī Shams al-Dawla Afshīn (al-A.) (ruler of Usrūshana and (Qarakhanid) 110 general) 62f, 65f, 66n, 67, 138n, 140, 140n, Abū Naṣr ibn Bakhtiyār (rebel) 106 203, 371n, 376n, 494n Abū Naṣr Pērōz Khōrshād see Bahāʾal-Dawla Ahab of Israel (king) 496n