Chapter 6

Khalid bin Walid, the general, 4, 129, 137, 147

Khalid bin Yazid, the alchemist, 40

Khahl (Al), the grammarian, 46, 47

'Khalilah wa Dimnah,' a story-book, 151-153

Kiblah, The, changed to Mecca, 136

Kindi (Al), or Alchendius, the philosopher, 24, 25, 65, 66

Kisai (Al), the grammarian, 47, 225

Koraish, tribe of, 2, 124, 125, 128, 134

Koran, The 3, 23, 24, 138; quotation from the 26th chapter, 31; as defined by the Muslims, 138; its division into chapters, 138; how it represents Muhammad, 138; not arranged until after his death, 138; as compared with our Bible, 132; as described by Mr. Badger, 140, 141; as a literary composition, 142

Kosta bin Luka, the philosopher and physician, 65, 75, 91

Kuenen (Dr. A.), on the religion of Israel, 146, note

Kutrub, the grammarian and philologist, 60

Labid, the poet, 29; his conversion, 34

Lane, a translator of the 'Nights', 155

Lokman, the sage, 26,27

Madaini (Al), the historian, 53

Mahdi (Al), the Khalif, 19, 96, 98, 99

Majridi (Al), the philosopher, 65, 106

'Makamat Hariri', 87, 88

Makin (Al), the chronicler, 97

Makkari (Al), the historian, 10, 22, 96, 117

Makrisi (Al), the historian and geographer, 110

Malik, the imam, 37

Mamun (Al), the Khalif, 12, 19, 74, 90, 96, 101

Mansur (Al), the Khalif, 12, 19, 73, 90, 96, 98, 99

Marwan II., the Khalif, 7, 19

Maseweib, the physician and translator, 75, 91

Masudi (Al), the historian, 53, 54

Mervezi (Al), the geographer, 49

'Merzuban-namah,' The, 192 extracts from it, 193-201

Mir Ali, the penman, 113

Moawia I, the Khalif, 5, 19, 33

Mofaddhal (Al), the compiler and editor of poems, 76, 85, 86

Montague (E. Wortley), his 'Nights', 177, 178

Moors, The, in Spain, 9; their expulsion, 11, 112

Morell, a translator, 154

Moses compared with Muhammad, 142; as a liberator and organizer, 143, 145; why he stayed in the desert, 145; his legislation there, 146; to him the Jews owe their nationality, 146

Mothanna, the general, 4, 147

'Mua'llakat,' The, or suspended poems, 24, 28, 30

Mubarrad (Al), the grammarian, 48

Muhammad, the Apostle, 3, 18;his birth, 120;details of his life, 120-132;his death, 132;as a poet, 24, 30;as a reformer, preacher and apostle at Mecca, 119, 120, 132;as a military leader, 147;his military expeditions, 127-131, 147;his failure at Mecca, 134;his success at Madinah, 135, 136;his power there as Pope-King, 135;his virtues at Mecca, his vices at Madinah, 136;his wives, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129, 137;his concubines, 128, 129, 137;reasons for his numerous marriages, 137;compared with Moses, 142;to him the Arabs owe their nationality, 146;always insisted on faith and prayer, 149;his parting address at Mina, 150;his immediate successors, 4, 5, 18, 25;his companions and their successors, 39;his converts, 123, 124, 126, 129

Muhammad Al-Amin, the philologist and lawyer, 116

Muhammad bin Habib, the editor of poems, 76

Muhammad bin Saad, the historian, 53

Muhammad Hussain Tabrizi, the penman, 113

Muir (Sir William), 120; his life of Muhammad, 120, 137; his annals of the early Khalifate, 147

Munkah, the Sanscrit translator, 91

Musa, the general, 7

Musa bin Khalid, the translator, 91

Muslim Homeir, the geographer, 49

Musset (Alfred de), the poet, 233; the verses on his tomb in Paris, 234

Mustaa'sim (Al) Billah, the Khalif, 12, 20, 107

Mustatraf (Al), a story-book, 201; extracts from it, 202-209

Muta, Battle at, 130

Mutanabbi (Al), the poet, 77, 84, 85

Mysticism, 95

Nabiga, the poet, 30

Nadim (An), author of the 'Fihrist,' 55, 56, 84, 85

Nami (An), the poet, 77, 85

'Naphut-ul-Yaman,' a story-book, 188; extracts from it, 188-192

Nasir-uddin-Tusy, the Persian, 107

Natural history, writers about, 58(Khalef-al-Ahmer, Ahmad bin ud Dinveri, Jahiz (Al),Ibn Duraid, Shaibani (As), each indexed separately.)

Newton and the Bible, 140

Nubakht, the translator, 98

Obaid Allah bin Jahsh, the Hanyf, 133

Ohud, Battle of, 127

Omaiyide Khalifs, Abdul-Malik and Walid I, patrons of literature and art, 95

Omaiyides, The, list of 19; dynasty established, 5; conquests of, 6; fall of, 7

Omar, the Khalifah, 4, 19, 137, 147

Oriental Congress of 1889, v., vi.

Oriental lectures established, vi.

Oriental literature, study of, vi.

Oriental Translation Fund, Old, vi., vii.; its revival, vi.; new fund to be permanent, vii.; some of its works, 54, 57, 88, 109, 115, 117; list of works published by, Appendix, 235

Otbi (Al), the poet, 77, 80, 82

Othman, the Khalifah, 4, 19

Othman bin Huwairith, the Hanyf, 133

Othman bin Talha, the custodian of the Kaabah, 3, 129

Oweis Al Keremi, the mystic, 95

'Pancha Tantra,' 151, 153, 183

Passion Play, the Arab, 6

Payne (John), description of his 'Nights,' 155, 156, 175, 177, 180

Pelly (Sir Lewis), a translator, 6

Periods of Arab literature—first, 25; second, 20; third, 106; of Arab history, 2

Persia, its severance from the Abbasides, 13

Persian Portraits, 151

Petis de la Croix, a translator, 154

Philologists, Arab 59(Kasim bin Ma'an, Kutrub, Jahiz (Al), Shaibani (As),Asmai (Al), Abu Obaida, Ansari (Al), Abu Othman,Abul Aina, Ibn Kutaiba, Ibn Duraid, each indexedseparately.)

Philology, Arab, 59

Philosophers, Arab, 65(Khalid bin Yazid, Kindi (Al), Farabi (Al), Ibn Sina,Ali bin Ridhwan, Ghazah (Al), Ibn Bajah, Ibn Rashid,Kosta bin Luka, Thaleb bin Korra, Tavhidi (Al),Majridi (Al), each indexed separately.)

Philosophy, Arab, 64

Physicians, Arab, 72(Georgios bin Bakhtyeshun, Gabriel bin Georgios,Isa bin Musa, Maseweih, Yahya bin Maseweih,Honem bin Ishak, Kosta bin Luka, Razi, Ibn Batlan,each indexed separately.)

Places of learning, 105

Pococke, a translator, 97

Poem of the Mantle, by Kab bin Zoheir, 31, 33

Poem of the Mantle, by Al Busiri, 32, note

Poetry before Muhammad's time, 25, 28

Poetry, Collectors and editors of Arab, 76(Mofaddhal (Al), Shaibani (As), Abu Zaid bin A'us,Ibn as Sikkit, Muhammad bin Habib, Abu Hatim asSejastani, Abu Othman al Mazini, Abu Tammam, Bohton (Al),Ibn-ul-Marzaban, Ibn Demash, Zukkari, Abu Bakr As-Sauli,Abul Faraj al-Ispahani, each indexed separately.)

Poets, Arab, 28, 30, 77(Amriolkais, Antara, Labid, Tarafa, Amru, Harath, Zoheir,Nabiga, Kama (Al), Aasha (Al), Akhtal (Al), Farazdak,Jarir, Abul-Atahya, Bashshar bin Burd, Abu Nuwas, AbuTammam, Otbi (Al), Bohtori (Al), Mutanabbi (Al), Nami(An), each indexed separately.)

Printing presses of Arabic to-day, 118

Prophets mentioned by Muhammad, 133

Purgstall (Von Hammer), author and translator, 96, 155

Quaritch (Bernard), his catalogue, vii.

Radhi (Al) Billah, the Khalif, 20, 101, 102

Razi, or Rhazes, the physician, 24, 25, 75

Redhouse (J.W.), the translator, 32

Rehatsek (E.), the translator, viii., 30, 53

Reiske, a translator, 97

Remarks, Introductory, v.

Rénan, extracts from, 144, 145

Rodiger, a translator, 27

Ruckert, a translator, 89

Sacey de (Baron Silvestre), 26, 89, 108

Sad bin Malik, the general, 4

Sa'di's 'Gulistan,' 188

Sayuti (Jalal-uddin), the Egyptian author, 111

Scott (Jonathan), a translator, 155, 177, 178

Sehl bin Nubakht, 90

Seville, 9

Shafai (Al), the imam, 37

Shaibani (Abu Amr as), the grammarian, philologist, writer on natural history and editor of poems, 49, 60, 76

Shiahs, Description of the, 5

Sibawaih, the grammarian, 46, 47

'Sihr-ul-oyoon,' a book on the eye, 210extracts from it, 210-212

'Siraj-ul Muluk,' an interesting work, 212;extracts from it, 212-216

Society of the Brethren of Purity, 105

Sofyan at Thauri, an imaam, 38

Somadeva, '(Bhatta); an Indian author, 182, 183

Soudanese, The, 148

Spain, Omaiyide rulers in, 21; other rulers, 8; the Almoravides, 9; the Almohades, 9

Spanish Omaiyide Khalifs, 8, 21; the two greatest, Abd-ar-Rahman III and Hakim II., 102

Sprengor (Dr. A.), a translator, 54

Stories from Ibn Khallikan, 217-228

Stories from the 'Arabian Nights.' 157-174

Stories from the 'Merzuban-namah.' 193-201

Stories from the 'Mustatraf.' 202-209

Stories from the 'Naphut-ul-Yaman.' 188-192

Stories from the 'Sihr-ul-oyoon.' 210-212

Stories from the 'Siraj-ul-Muluk.' 212-216

Stories from various sources, 228-233

Sulaiman, the lawgiver, 112-116

Sunnis, Description of the, 5

Syria and Palestine, 14; conquest of, by the Fatimites, 14; by the Seljuks, 14; by Saladin, 15; by Selim I., 15

Tabari, the historian, 53

Taki-uddin of Fez, the historian, 110

Tarafa, the poet, 29

Tarik, the general, 7

Tavhidi (Al), the philosopher, 65, 106

Tawney (C.H.), the translator, 181

Testaments, our Old and New, 133, 139

Thalab, the grammarian, 48

Thalab bin Korra, the philosopher, 65

Theophilus of Edessa, the translator, 98

'Thousand and one Nights.' 152, 154-156, 174-176

Torrens, a translator of the 'Nights.' 155

Tradition, The six Fathers of, 38(Al-Bukhari, Muslim, At-Tir-midi, Abu Dawud, An-Nasai, Ibn Majah.)

Traditionists, Early, 38

Traditionists, Minor, 38

Translations, how carried on, 90, 91, 98

Translators, 89, 90(Ibn-AlMukaifa, Abd-Allah bin Hilal, Sehl bin Nubakht, Musabin Khalid, Yusuf bin Khalid, Hassan bin Sehl, Baladori(Al), Munkah, the Indian, Ibn Washiyab, Honein bin Ishak,Maseweih and his son Yahya, Kosta bin Luka, Theophilusof Edessa, each indexed separately.)

Travellers,see'Geographers'

Trebutien, a translator, 155

Ulema, Establishment of the, 116

Vatsyayana, the Hindoo author of the 'Kama Sutra,' 182

Voltaire and the Bible, 140

'Vrihat Katha,' or Great Tale, 182, 183

Wackidi (Al), the historian, 53

Walid I., the sixth Omaiyide Khalif, 7, 19

Warakah, the Hanyf, 123, 132

Weil (Dr.), the translator, 53, 155

White (Dr. Joseph), 177

World, End of the, prophesied, 111

Wustenfeld (Dr.), the editor and author, 52, 76

Yahya bin Khalid, the Barmekide, 99, 100

Yahya bin Maseweih, the physician and translator, 74, 75, 91,98

Yakut, the penman, 113, 114

Yazid I., the second Omaiyide Khalif, 5, 6, 19

Yusuf bin Khalid, the translator, 91

Zaid, the inquirer, 132

Zibary, the hostile poet, 31

Zinzerling, a translator, 155

Zobeida, the wife of Harun-ar-Rashid, 97, 168

Zoheir, the poet, 29

Zotenberg (H.), of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 176, 177, 179

Zukkari, the editor of poems, 76


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