Index Aaron, 4, 64, 125 Abbas, 82, 84, 85, 134 Abbasids, 85, 134, 136, 137, 138, 145, 268, 269, 270 Abd al-Majid, caliph, 150 Abd al-Malik, caliph, 234– 235, 241 Abd al-Rahman, caliph, 147 Abd al-Wahhab, 237 Abode of <strong>Islam</strong>, 146, 147, 177, 190, 207, 211 Abode of War, 206 Abraha, 48, 49 Abraham, 1, 4–5, 7, 9–11, 12–20, 36, 38, 44, 62, 64, 73–74, 95, 222 ff., 229, 239, 253; religion of, 9, 72– 74 Abram, 7. See also Abraham Abrogation, 94, 114–115, 207 Abu Bakr, caliph, 83, 89, 90, 92, 130, 132, 134 Abu Hanifa, 204 Abu Hurayra, 167 Abu Qasim Muhammad, 141– 142 Abu Qubays , Mount, 17–18 Abu Sufyan, 84, 85, 134 Abu Talib, 65 Abyssinia, Abyssinians, 21, 35, 65, 71 Adab <strong>and</strong> adat, 173 Adam, 1, 4, 5, 8, 18, 59, 64, 125 Afterlife, 158 ff. Ahmad (Muhammad), 24 Ahmad ibn Hanbal, 123, 204 Aisha, wife of Muhammad, 38, 83–84, 134–135, 167 Alamut, 145 Ali ibn Abi Talib, cousin of Muhammad <strong>and</strong> caliph, 65, 83–84, 89, 125, 132–135, 137, 143, 204, 268, 269 Alidism, 137 Allah, 3, 40, 43, 45–46, 49, 58 Allegorical Exegesis, 111–112, 121–122 Alms Tithe (zakát), 8, 70, 128, 178, 216–217 Amir, 130, 145 Analogy (qiyas), 181 Andalus, al-. See Spain Angels, 75–76, 86 Annunciation (to Mary), 23 Anthropomorphism, 112– 113, 123–124, 264–265 Apostasy, 201 Apostolic Tradition, Succession, 161, 198 Aqsa mosque, 228, 231 Aquinas, Thomas, 210 Arabia 4; <strong>Christians</strong> in, 50;
278 t INDEX Arabia (cont.) <strong>Jews</strong> in, 48–49; pre-<strong>Islam</strong>ic, 31–32 Arabic script, 92 Arabization, 191–192 Arabs, 13–14, 132, 191–192 Arafat, Mount, 44, 223, 224 Aristotle, 171 Armenians, 197 Asceticism, 158, 246–247 Ashura, 71–72 Assassin, 267 Avicenna, 124 Aws, 68, 72, 78, 79 Ayat (verses) of Quran, 99 Ayla (Aqaba/Elath), 88 Azhar, al-, 143 Azraqi, al-, 19 Badr Wells, 69, 70, 119 Baghdad, 54, 85, 146, 147, 148, 211, 230, 238 Balkans, 197 Banu Hashim, 54, 65 Banu Israil (Israelites), 5, 6, 22, 71, 82 Baqum (Pachomius), 86 Bar Kokhba, 268 Baraka, 234, 250 Basra, 135 Batin, 125, 139, 140 Baya, 249 Bayt Allah, 40 Beatific Vision, 263–265 Bedouin, 42–43, 66, 80, 86, 129, 131–132 Berbers, 144, 146 Bernard of Clairvaux, 102 Bethlehem, 228 Bible, 2, 4, 6–7, 91; in the Quran, 4–6 Bida (“innovation”), 202 Binding of Isaac, 19–20, 62. See also Sacrifice of Isaac Bishop(s), 161, 198 Black Stone, 17, 40 Book, 9–10 Bostra, 87 Bukhari, al-, 168 Busra. See Bostra Cairo, 143, 146, 148, 153, 230, 232 Caliph, caliphate, 129–131, 146–150 Calligraphy, 242–244 Camel, Battle of the, 135 Canaan, Canaanites, 7, 14 Catechism, 199 Chosen People, 8, 109, 131 (?) Christianity, 6, 9, 186 <strong>Christians</strong>, 1, 3, 171; <strong>and</strong> the state, 127–128; Orthodox <strong>and</strong> Eastern under <strong>Islam</strong>, 197; in the Quran, 25– 29 Circumambulation ritual, 39, 44, 224 Circumcision, 184–185 Clergy, 175–176 Comm<strong>and</strong>er of the Faithful (amir almuminim), 130 Companions of the Prophet, 167 Consensus, 183, 198 Constantine, 227–228 Conversion, 188–189 Cordoba, 147, 148 Covenant, 7, 8–9, 23 Covenant of Umar, 81 Creation, 2, 7, 59 Crusades, 12, 209, 230–231 Custom (sunna), 161; of the Prophet 52, 161–165, 220 Damascus, 85, 135, 147, 232 Dante, 260, 261 Dar al-Harb. See Abode of War Dar al-<strong>Islam</strong>. See Abode of <strong>Islam</strong> Dar al-Nadwa, 34 Dargah, 248 Daughters of Allah, 45, 62, 95 David, 2, 4, 125, 227, 229 Dawa, dai, 143
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