EFFENDI, Dervish,227Yūsef,85,135Effendim,219Egypt, English rule in,57Ej Jeita, village of, inEl, the God,124Ajlāt,111Bahra, lake of,310Bārah, village of,245,246,249Ḥayyāt, mosque of,230Khuḍr, Well of,94,96Mughāra, village of,255Muwaggar,52,126Emesa, Roman city,181,186Epiphaneia, fortress of,221Ethreh,84Euphrates, the,268Euting, M.,84
FĀFERTĪN, village of,274,282Fāiz, nephew of Muḥammad enNassār,107,111,128,339el Aṭrash, Sheikh of Kreyeh,77,81Talal ul,24,25Fāris, muleteer,270et seq.,302,310Ḥabīb,19,22,339Fayyād, Agha of Karyatein,152Fedhāmeh, village of,111Fellahīn, the,56; social condition,206,217Bank, the,58Fendi, guide,77,78,88Fīda, Abu 'l,22France, Baghdad railway scheme,261
G̣ABLĀN, the Arab,39,44,49,52,54,55,59,65,76,339Garīz, the, Seleucia,331,333,334,337Gates of God, the,133Germany, Baghdad railway scheme,261Gethsemane, valley of,4Gharz, the Ghadīr el,116,121the Wādi el,125Ghassānid forts,34,52,126Ghawārny, the,41Ghazu, the sport,66Ghiāth, the,96,119Ghishghāsh, Sheikh of Umm Ruweik,107,111,120Ghōr, the,11,16,23Giour Dāgh, the,288,301Greek inscriptions,122,242,253Greeks,140
ḤABĪB, muleteer,3,16,74,112,124,168,172,270Hadūdmadūd,293Haida, Dr.,171Haifa,19Ḥāil, town of,44,47,48,84Ḥājj Railway, the,22,34road, the,239Ḥamād, the,111,112Ḥamāh,168Roman road from,218;description,221; theMosque,223; people,223Hamdān, son of Sheikh Understanding,120Ḥamūd,51of Sweida,82,94Hanelos,125Ḥārim,306,309; the castle,310Hārith, Ibn el,62Harra, the Burnt Land,108Harūn er Rashīd,212Ḥaseneh tribe, the,172,197Hāss, Jebel el,260Ḥassan Beg Nā'i,182Ḥassaniyyeh tribe, the,24,65,88Ḥaurān, mountains of,18,58,70,75,76Hayāt, Kalybeh at,131Heart of God,116Ḥejāz Railway, the,136Ḥelbān, mud village of,256Hermon Mountains,121,159Heshbān,16Hind, the land of,195,196Hira,126Hīt, village of,131Hittites, the,175Hober, village of,260Holy Sepulchre, Church of the,2Ḥomṣ,111,168,175,176,193Castle of,179,181; people of,180,186; houses of,182; the Marj ul' Asi,186;Stony Plain of,197Homsi, Nicola,266Ḥoweiṭāṭ, the,65,239,240Hurmul, Tower of,172,175Ḥuṣn es Suleimān,213Ḳal'at el,195,198,201,339; Greek Monastery at,209
IBRAHĪM, the Armenian,329,333muleteer,3Pasha,36,180Imtain,70,82,92Iron Gate, Antioch,325'Isa, Fellāḥ ul,51,55,69,164Islāmism,227Ismailis,195; religion,233,279'Izzet Pasha,149,212
JADA 'llah,69,85Jaffa,8Japanese War,103,156,160,182Jebel Ḥalaḳah, the,297Jebeliyyeh Arabs, the,75,96Jericho, the road to,10,11Jerūn, oasis of,152Jerūdi, the brigand,seeMuḥammadPasha, Sheikh of JerūdJerusalem,4,99,160,266Jisr el Wād, bridge of,210Jōf,47,84Jordan valley,10et seq.Judæa,7
KABUL,227Kabūseh, village of,334,335Kadesh,176Kāf,84Ḳais, Amr ul,59,60,67Kalam, Mushḳin,148,149Ḳalb Lōzeh, church of,278,302Kalōteh, 282, 285; church of,286Kāmu'a Hurmul,172,175Ḳanawāt,164; the basilica,111;illustrations,108,112,115Ḳantarah, the,119Kāramurt, village of,336Karyatein, oasis of,152Ḳaṣr el Ahla,seeḲaṣr el 'Alya'Alya,52Banāt,255,256Ḳasṭal,34,126Katurā,282Kbēs, Monsieur,222,230,231Kbeshīn, hamlet of,273Kefr 'Abīd,260Anbīl,244,246Lāb,292Nebu,288Keifār, village of,288Kerak,205Khabbāz, Hanna,194Khālid Beg 'Aẓam,227Kharāneh, ruins of,54Khayyām, Omar,23Khirāb esh Shems,282,283; churchat285Khīrbet Hass, village of,244Khittāb,112,119,128Khuḍr, prisoner,196Khureibet es Sūḳ, temple and mausoleum,28Kiāzim Pasha, Vāli at Aleppo,262Kiepert, maps,168,259,260,273Killāni family at Ḥamāh,224,227,235Killāniyyeh Tekah, Ḥamāh,224,227Killiz,261Knights Hospitallers,205Knights Templars,206,211Konia,171,270Kreyeh,78,81Ḳṣeir, town of,172Ksejba, village of,297Ḳūbbeh in Mosque at Ḥamāh,223Ḳubbet el Khazneh, the,141,147,148Kuda'a, tribe of,139Kuleib,83Kulthūm, Ibn, song of,139Ḳur'ān, reading of the,233Kurds,103,273,288,291Kurumfuleh, the,160Kuruntul, monastery of,11Ḳuṣeir es Sahl,28Kutaila, dirge of,62Kuweēk River, the,259Kweit,48,265Kymet, the Kurdish woman4
LAHITEH,132Laodocia ad Orontem,176Larissa, town of,235Lava,121,124,126Lebanon, Mount,163,164,176Lebīd, poetry of,60,61Lebweh, ruins at,171Lejā road, the,132Littinann, Dr.,75,77,123n.Loculi,329,330Lütticke of Damascus,134Lyall, Sir Charles,63n.Lysicrates, monument of,297
MA'ALULA, monastery of,209Ma'ān,13,14,22,239Mabūk, the Arab,14Mādeba,16,22,24,26Maḥmūd, Ḥājj, the zaptieh,231,250,252,259,272,339Malek ed Dāher, Sultan,206Manuscripts, illuminated,148Mār Eliās, church of,182Mar Saba, monastery of,15Marāh, teut marks,127Marj ul 'Asi of the Orontes,186Marlborough Club, the,196Masyād,217Maṭkh swamp, the,259,269Mazār of Sheikh Serāk,123Mecca,265Railway,13,171;pilgrims,68;239; the Black Stone at,96;customs,259Medā'in Ṣāleh,239Medīna,239,259,265Meḥes,297,302Meidan, the, Damascus,133,151Mersina,262Mesopotamia,135,279Meskīn,37Metawīleh sect, the,160,168,171Mezērib,111Mikhāil, the cook,3,4,12,14,15,19,21,43,73,78,82,88,92,101,112,116,120,128,131,160,168,172,175,217,243,256,270,297,302,306,314,317,336Milḥēm, Emir Muṣṭafa,219Moab,10,38Mohammadan invasion, seventh century,76,77Morris, William,254Mosaics,260Mosul,293Mounds,26,52,54,122,219,221,223Moyemāt, village of,259Mshitta,24,28,34,45,47,48,126Mu'āwiyah,134Mudīk, Ḳal'at el,231,238; ruinsof,241Mughāra Merzeh, mud village,256Muḥammad Effendi, Muftī,229el Aṭrash, Sheikh,69,79muleteer,3,16,43,56,82,172Pasha, Sheikh of Jerūd,152Sāid ul Khāni, Ḳāḍi,189Bedouin,120the Agha Khān,196,233uncle of Ibn er Rashīd,14,48Mujēmir, Sheikh,51Mūsa, Kurdish guide,279,285,288,291,339Mushennef, Temple at,111,116Musil,55n.Mutanabbi, poetry of,108,208Muwaggar,seeEl MuwaggarMuwāli tribe, the,212,256
NABATŒAN necropolis,75; inscriptions,80Nahār, Sheikh,37,43Nahr el 'Awāj, the,133Najēreh, ruins,54Najīb, Ḥājj, zaptieh,272,285,297,301,302,305,306,314,317Nakshibendi, Sheikh Ḥassan,143,145,155,157Namrūd, Abu, guide,19,20,26,44,50,56,339Napoleon III.,146Nasīb el Aṭrash, Sheikh of Ṣalkhad,84,93Naṣṣār, Muḥammad en,81,82,96,102,339Nāzim Pasha, Vāli of Syria,135,141,156,268Nebi Mendu, Tell,175Negroes,38Nejd,14,47,84,139Nejha, village of,133Noṣairis, the,175,190,210,233,329Noṣairiyyeh, the Jebel,176,195,198
OG, King,84,111Olives, Mount of,7Omar, Amīr,149,159Omer,111Oppenheim, book of,102,112,125,168Ormān, village of,100,154Orontes, the,171,172,176,186,221,222,232,235,242,244,310,320,322,326,330
PALMYRA,28,111,129,176,209Petra,14Pieria,241Poets of the Ignorance,60,208Princeton archaeological expedition,256
RĀ'IB Effendi el Ḥelu,213RailwaysḤājj,22,34; Ḥejāz,136;Mecca,13,171; Rayak-Ḥamāh,261; Baghdad,261; theFrench,222Rājil, Wādi,101Rāmeh,111Rās Ba'albek,171Ras ul 'Ain, Ba'albek,185Rashīd, Ibn er,14,25,44Rayak,261Redīfs, the,14,16Rhodes, island of,136Riāḍ,14,47Riza Beg el' Ābid,211,339Rolandino, monument in Bologna,254Roman coins,27,219; camps,4;tanks,35; roads,74,160,218,219,297; forts,125Rōẓah, the,233Ruḥbeh plain, the,107,123Russia, pilgrims,7Ruwalla, the,146,175Ruweiḥā, the churches at,253,277
SACHAU, M.,250Sacrifice, Feast of,68Ṣafa, the,96,105,107Safaitic inscriptions,122Ṣāfiṭa Castle,210,211St. Peter, Cave of,325St. Simon Stylites, church of,seeSim'ān, Kala 'atSt. Stephen's Gate,4Ṣalaḥiyyeh,136,152,155Salamis, Gulf of,167Salcah, city of,seeṢalkhadṢāleh, guide,82Ṣāleh village,101Salisbury, Lord,105Saikhad,60,82Salkīn, town of,310Sallūm, Syrian doctor,230Salt, village of,16,18,22Samaria,266San Gimignano,181Sanctuaries,95Sandūk, the Sāhib es, at Ḳal'at elHousn,206Sāneh, village of,107Sa'oud, Ibn,14,44Saphathenos, Zeus,124Sarut, the River,219Safīnet Nuh (Noah's Ark),176Seijar, Kal' at es,232,235Seijari, Sheikh Aḥmed,235Selemiyyeh,195Seleucia, Bay of,329Pieria,327Nicator, temple and tomb of,241,313,322,327,330Selīm Beg,141,147,148,155Seljuk,206,230Selmān,81Serāk, Sheikh,123Serāya, the, Ḥomṣ,182; Antioch,322Serge, Archduke,135Serjilla, town and ruins,249,250,252Sermeda, plain of,297,302Sēs, Jebel,126Shabha, village,76Shabhīyyeh, village,76Shahbah,132Shakka, the Kaisarieh at,131Shām, Wādi esh,111Shāmmaṝ, the,14,25,47,48Sheikh Barakāt, Jebel,280297Sheikhly,111Shekīb el Arslān,151Sherarāt tribe, the,38,96Shibbekeh,111Shibly Beg el Aṭrash,77,309Shuraik,125Sidr bushes, the,11Siena Cathedral,181Silk industry,313,330Silpius, Mount,321,324Sim'ān, Ḳal'at,274; the villages,276Sīr, the Wādy,23,25Sirhān, the Wādy,77,84Sitt Ferīdeh, the, at Ḳal'at el Ḥuṣn,202,206Slime Pits of Genesis, the,12Smātiyyeh Arabs, the,235Smyrna,8,99Soktan, Sheikh,35Sommar, Mon. Luiz de,164Spina Christi, legend,11Stones, lettered,122Suḳ Wādi Barada,159,161Ṣukhūr tribe, the,14,25,31,65,88Sukkar, Yūsef Effendi,19Surkanyā, village,281Sweida,82,85,92,164Sweidiyyeh, the,327,328Sykes, Mr. Mark,3,4,164,218Syria, rule in,140; condition ofthe poor,206; the term,228Syriac inscriptions,292