Fatima.Mernessi_The-Forgotten-Queens-of-Islam-EN

amir, amira, 20, 31
'amma (common people), 34—5,
130, 177-8, 179-89
al-'Amri, Yasin al-Khatib, 148
Andalusia, 16-19, 45-6
Ansar, 76
apostasy movement (ridda), 119
al-'aql (reason), 34
Arabian Nights, 52
Arab opposition to women's rule,
86, 110-11, 117-18
Arghun, Ilkhan, 101
aristocracy, 15-16, 34, 56, 177-8;
Prophet's attitude to, 122, 150;
Shi'ism and 121; women's role
(Arab), 59, (Mongol), 21, 86,
102-4, 106-7
Armenians, 60
Arpa, Ilkhan, 105
'Arwa Bint Ahmad al-Sulayhiyya,
14, 16, 115-16, 117, 140-1,
147-57
ashraf (elite), 15-16, 79
Asia, South-East, 30, 86, 107-10
Asma (sister of Khayzuran), 53
Asma Bint Shihab al-Sulahiyya,
14, 16, 115, 139-41, 144-6
Asmahane, 174
assassinations of caliphs, 179-81
Assassins, 150, 151, 156, 157
astrology, 160, 164-5
Atabek dynasty, 104
Atjeh state, 30, 109-10
Aurora (Subh), 44-9
Awis, 105
Aybak, 'Izz al-Din, 92, 93, 97-8
Aybak, Qutb al-Din, 93
Ayyubid dynasty, 28-9, 89, 91, 98
al-'Aziz, Fatimid caliph, 159,
160-1, 162, 163
Baghdad: Mongol sack, 24, 26-7,
29; al-Mustansir invades, 150-1;
under Mongols, 102
al-Baghdadi, Muhammad Ibn
Habib (d. 245/859), 133
Index 221
Balqis, queen of Sheba, 9, 43-4,
89, 118, 141-4
Bani Husayn, 175
Bani Khurshid dynasty, 104-5
Banu Najah, 136
Banu Nasr (Banu al-Ahmar),
dynasty 17
Banu Rashid, 18
Banuqa, 57-8
Barak Hajib (Kutlugh Khan),
99-100
Barbarossa, 18, 19
Barquq, al-Zahir, 106
Barmakids, 61
Baroda, India, 125
al-Bassasiri, 72
Basra, 129
Batu, 106
bay'a (choice of leader), 34, 128,
163
Baydu, Ilkhan, 102
Berbers, 14, 57, 59, 127
Bhutto, Benazir, 1-2, 13, 34, 86,
177-8, 185
Bir Umm Ma'bad, 138, 145
Bohora, India, 149
Bombay, India, 125
Buddhism, Mongol, 100, 101
Bukhari, Imam, 80, 82
Buyids, 40-1, 71-2, 129
Byzantium see Roman Empire
Cairo 160, 167-8; al-Hakim orders
burning, 166, 175
calendar, 165, 186
caliphate, 9-13, 31-6;
assassinations, 179-81;
despotism, 10-11, 80, 98, 181;
espionage, 171-2; etymology of
title, 32, legitimizes rulers, 26-7,
90, 99-100, (refuses women),
26-9, 91, 110; Ottomans
assume, 22, 24; and
parliamentary politics, 179-89;
spiritual authority, 10-12, 26-7,
32, 71; succession, to 22-5,