INDEX
A
Abbas (Mohammed's uncle), 107, 108
Abbasids, 91, 92; government, 97, 106; Khalifate, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112
Abd-ul-Hamid, Sultan, 102
Abduh, Mufti Muhammed, 141, 144
Abraham, 37, 39, 45, 49
Abu Bakr, 94
Abyssinians, 36, 139
Africa, 82, 90, 92, 110–11, 130
Africans, 146
Agreement of the Community, see 'Ijmâ'
Ahl al-hadîth (men of tradition), 97
ʾAjam, 52
Al-Ashʾari, 72
Alexander the Great, 61
Ali, the fourth Khalif, 89, 91, 94
Ali, Mohammed, the first Khedive, 82
Alids, 27, 92, 94, 95, 107, 108, 110
ʾâmils (agents), 87, 106
Anti-Christ, 95
Arabia, 15, 16, 38, 40, 41, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 82, 87, 90, 93, 94, 106, 109, 125, 130
Arabian, view in regard to the line of descent through a woman, 35; tribes, 36; prophet, 44, 45, 61, 67; heathens, 47, 52; migration, 54; race, 62; armies, 64; Shiʿah, 92; conquerors, 121; origin of hajj, 136; peninsula, 142
Arabic, traditions, 60; speech, 70; arts, 77; custom, 136; grammar, 137; language, 143
Arabs, 15, 16, 35, 41, 43, 44, 50, 52; the nations conquered by the, 62, 63; of Christian origin, 70, 71, 87, 88, 114, 138
Arnold, Professor T. W., 49, 62
Asia, 110
Assassins, 81
Augustine, 23
Azhar-mosque, 140, 141, 142, 144
B
Bâb Dereybah, 139
Bâbîs, 81
Bagdad, 107, 108
Barbarians, 52
Basra, 67
Beduins, 64, 140
Behâʾis, 81
Bellarminius, 18
Berber, 136
Bible, 45, 61, 118. See Scriptures.
Bibliander, 18
Black Stone, 143
Boulainvilliers, Count de, 22, 23
Breitinger, 18
Buddhism, 138
Burckhardt, 144
Burton, 144
Byzantine Empire, 16, 48, 51, 109
Byzantines, 63
C
Caetani, Prince, 31
Cairo, 67, 136, 140, 144
Casanova, Professor of Paris, 26
Caussin de Perceval, 25
China, 15, 138
Chinese, 55, 136, 139
Christian, 18; religion, 20, 138; 21, 23, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 45; influence, 47, 48, 133; rituals, 58; tradition, 60, 61; model of obligatory fasting, 65, 75; princes, 108; states, 121, 131;
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