‘Abdar Rahim 164 ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Makki 185 ‘Abdul Ghani Nabulusi 7 ‘Abdul Haqq Muhaddith Dihlawi 61, 85, 105 ‘Abdul Karim <strong>of</strong> Bulri, Shah 100 ‘Abdul Latif Bhita’i, Shah 23, 37 ‘Abdul Qadir Jilani (Pir-i dastgir) 7, 18, 24, 56, 62, 119 ‘Abdul Quddus Gangohi 192 ‘Abdullah (musician) 135 ‘Abdullah al-Ansari <strong>of</strong> Herat 62, 178, 193 ‘Abdallah al-Yunini (Asad ash- Sham) 169 ‘Abdullah Ghazi, Shah 15, 22 ‘Abdur Rahman Chishti 156, 158, 171, 176 Abu (Bu) ‘Ali Qalandar <strong>of</strong> Panipat 185–6 Abu Bakr Tusi Hyderi (Qalandari) 191 Abu Hafs ‘Umar, Shihabuddin, Suhrawardi 62, 133, 134, 135, 137, 140, 142, 143–4, 180, 184 Abu Ishaq ash-Shami 61 Abu Ishaq Kazeruni 167 Abu Sa‘id al-Hujwiri 47 Abu Sa‘id bin Abul Khair Maihani 43, 62, 90, 128, 178 Abu Sa‘id Tabrizi 62 Abu Yazid Taifur Bistami (Bayazid Bistami) 22, 24, 39, 63, 106, 165, 173 Abul ‘Abbas al-Ashqani 45 INDEX 237 Abul Faraj Runi 53 Abul Fazl al-Khuttali 41 Abul Fazl ‘Allami 62, 70, 156 Abul Hasan ‘Ali al-Mas‘udi 153 Abul Qasim al-Gurgani 45 Afghanpur 110, 150, 151 Agra 54, 70, 81, 156 Ahmad ‘Abdul Haqq 192, 193 Ahmad al-Badawi 18, 169 Ahmad bin ‘Ali ar-Rifa‘i 190 Ahmad ibn Hanbal 16 Ahmad Naharwani 148 Ahmad Shah Abdali Durrani 2 Ahmad Shahid <strong>of</strong> Rai Bareilly 169 Ahmad Sirhindi, Shaikh, mujaddid-i alf-i thani 20, 28, 35, 36, 37 Aibek, Qutbuddin, Sultan <strong>of</strong> Delhi 64, 65 Ajmer 26, 29, 63–7, 81, 157, 171; pilgrimage <strong>to</strong> 69–80 Ajodhan see Pakpattan Akbar, Jalaluddin, the Mughal Emperor 5, 53, 70–1, 74, 156 ‘Ala’uddin Hasan Bahman Shah (Hasan Gangu) 112 ‘Ala’uddin Khalji, Sultan <strong>of</strong> Delhi 11, 110, 122, 141, 191 Aleppo 171 ‘Ali Asghar Chishti 65, 85, 91 ‘Ali bin Abi Talib, the fourth Caliph 7, 18, 24, 36, 47, 61, 133 Amir Hasan Sijzi 85, 93, 96, 99, 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 113, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122,
124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 136, 140, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 181, 182, 189, 193, 201 Amir Khurd (Sayyid Muhammad bin Mubarak Kirmani) 19, 61, 65, 85, 87, 89, 94, 96, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 108, 110, 113, 115, 117, 127, 148, 149, 165, 191, 201 Amir Khusrow Dehlevi 108, 124–5, 127, 193 Amroha 190 amulets 8 Anasagar 64, 67 Ana<strong>to</strong>lia 169 Aquinas, Thomas 8 Arakan 166, 168, 169 Arkali Khan 191 Asad ‘Ali, Sayyid 166, 167 Ashraf Jahangir Simnani 135, 171, 176, 186 Astrabad 62 ‘Attar, Fariduddin 40, 56 Aurangzeb, the Mughal Emperor 4, 5, 28, 75, 176 Aush 86 Awadh 19, 157, 158, 160, 171 Ayodhya 155, 160 Azerbaijan 41 Bab ‘Umar 44, 45, 72 Baba Farid (Shaikh Mas‘ud Fariduddin Ganj-i Shakar) 2, 11, 23, 24, 37, 54, 70, 81–104, 106, 107, 113, 114, 116–19, 123, 124, 127, 140, 141, 145, 149, 155, 166, 177, 178, 181, 183, 184, 200, 201 Baba Ratan, Hajji 24 Baba Tahir ‘Uryan 24, 178 Babur, the Mughal Emperor 7, 18 Badaun 113, 145 Badauni, ‘Abdul Qadir 20, 24, 28, 75, 113, 174 Badruddin Ishaq 94, 95, 96, 97, 117, 124, 147 Badshahi Masjid <strong>of</strong> Lahore 7, 36 Baghdad 16, 18, 24, 41, 47, 56, 62, 92, 133, 139, 143, 144, 145, 163 INDEX 238 Bahadur, the Mughal Emperor 76 Baha’uddin Naqshband 16, 18 Baha’uddin Zakariya Multani 13, 78, 81, 86, 118, 127, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141–50, 152, 153, 154, 181, 184, 186, 194 Bahraich 18, 155–6, 158, 159, 160, 165 Ba’i Tilokdi 76 Bait al-Jinn 52 Bakhtiar, Laleh 32 Bakhtyar Kaki, Qutbuddin 10, 11, 16, 19, 30, 66, 70, 79, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 96, 98, 119, 126, 134, 146, 183, 185, 201 Balban, Giyathuddin (Ulugh Khan), Sultan <strong>of</strong> Delhi 95, 97, 191 Baluchistan 22 Bangalore 22 Bansal 124 Barani, Ziya’uddin 28, 102, 105, 108, 111, 127, 129, 187 Bari Imam 18 Bayazid Ansari (Pir-i Raushan) 4, 82, 203 Bayazid Bistami see Abu Yazid Taifur Bistami Bertels, E. 125 Bhit Shah 29 Bibi Fatima 97 Bibi Hafiz Jamal (Hafiza) 65, 77 Bibi Nahzan 23 Bibi Pakdaman 139, 150, 154 Bibi Rani 101 Bibi Sharifa 97 Bibi Zulaikha 114, 115, 116 Bihar 165, 168 Bilal bin Rabah 44 Bistam 24, 41 Borges, Jorges Luis 28 Bukhara 16, 18, 41, 61, 113, 114, 115, 143, 144 Bullhe Shah 54, 83, 84 Burckhardt, J. 20, 21 Burhan ad-Din Sagharji 164 Burhanuddin Gharib 122, 124 Bur<strong>to</strong>n, Richard 31
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