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

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Muharijun, 76
Muhammad Uzbeg Khan, 103
al-Muhassan, 126
al-Muhtadi, caliph, 57
al-Mu'izz, Fatimid caliph, 160
al-Mukarram, 115, 137, 138, 140,
136-7, 150, 154-5
mulk (earthly power), 10-11, 71
al-Muntasir, caliph, 57
al-Muqtadi, caliph, 28
al-Muqtadir, caliph, 42
al-Murakushi, 'Abd al-Wahid, 49
Musaylima al-Kadhdhab, 119
music, 55
al-Musta'in, caliph, 57
al-Musta'li, 156, 157
al-Mustansir, Abbasid caliph,
89-90, 94
al-Mustansir, Fatimid caliph, 132,
134, 149-51, 154, 155, 156, 158
al-Mustarshid, caliph, 151
al-Musta'sim, caliph, 24, 28, 29,
90
al-Mu'tamid, caliph, 38
al-Mutawakkil, caliph, 57, 58
muwali (non-Arab converts), 121
Myriam, sultana of Maldives, 108
al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, 149-53
Najib al-Dawla, 157
nasab (lineage), 126
al-nashiz (rebellious woman), 177
Nawar, 83-4
Nestorian sect, 21
Nisa'i, Imam, 80-1
Nizar Ibn al-Mustansir, 156
Nizar Qabbani, 212
Nur al-'Alam Nakiyyat al-Din
Shah, 30, 110
Ottoman caliphs, 22, 24
Padishah Khatun, 21, 99, 100,
101-2
parliamentary politics see
democracy
party, political see hizb
passion, ruler misled by, 39-41
path or way in Islam, 12
people, common see 'amma
Persia: Absh Khatun's rule, 104;
culture, 55; Kutlugh-Khanids,
21, 99, 100-2; Shi'ism, 122, 125,
129
pilgrimage see under Mecca
piracy, 18-19
poetry, 55
politics: link with Islam, 5, 32, 71,
74, 133; mosque as arena, 75,
79; women rulers as threat to
order, 12-13, 66, 176, 177, 185;
see also aristocracy; caliphate;
democracy
polyandry, 118
polygyny, 13, 53-4, 98
power, earthly see mulk
pre-Islamic era: aristocracy, 15,
122; pilgrimage to Mecca, 63,
132-3; rulers of Sheba, 119, 141;
women's status, 83
prisoners of conscience, 187
Prophet see Muhammad, the
Prophet
prophets (al-anbiya), 11
qadis, 20, 182
al-Qannuji, Muhammad Sadiq, 82,
143
Qasim, Ilkhan kingdom of, 106
Qum, 153
Quraysh, 15, 23-4, 122
Qutb al-Din Aybak, 93
Qutb al-Din (Kutlugh Khan), 100
al-Rabi, Ibn Yurus, 61
race and attitudes to women
rulers, 86, 110-11, 117-18
Radiyya, 13-14, 30, 86, 88, 89-90,
93-7, 110
al-Rahawi, Amir Ibn 'Abdallah,
129, 130, 131-2
al-Rashid, caliph, 151