A literary history of Persia

5ooINDEXAvestic language (so-called",Zend " or " Old Bactrian "),27, 39, 43, 44- 60, 62, 67, 78,81,89Avicenna (Ibn Sina), 40, 288,289, 293, 368, 372, 375- 38i,470*'Awfi, Muhammad (authorof Lubabu'l-Albab andJawami'u'l-hikayat), 13, 15,262, 283, 340, 449, 450, 452-455, 462, 463, 466, 468, 470471Awhadu'd-Din Kirmani(poet),420Abu 'Awn, 245'Ayn b. 'Ayn b. 'Ayn, 241'Aynu'l-Kamal . See Evil Eye.Aywan - i - Kisra (Palace ofChosroes), 258Ayyam ("days," '.., notablebattles, of the Arabs), 270,388Abu Ayyub-Muriyani, 258Az (in Talish dialect = azem," " I in Avestic), 27Azarbayjan (Adharbadhagan),19. 28, 35, 78, 79. 313, 325,448. See Atropalene.Azhi-Dahaka, 114. SeeDahak.-Azraqi (historian of Mecca),345-'Aziz, Abu Mansur Nazar(Fatimid Caliph), 373BBabak (Papak), the father ofArdashir Babakan (q.v.),122, 137-142Babak (heresiarch), 247, 311,323-831, 334, 336*Baba Tahir (dialect poet),26, 27, 83Ibn Babawayh(Shi'ite divine),375-Babbagha (poet), 370Babis, 86, 98, 99, 100, 101, 130,165, 170, 172, 311, 312, 407,410, 415, 423Babylon, Babylonia, 21, 04,128, 154, 158, 163, 164, 282,3i, 35, 36, 357Bacon, Roger , 40Bactria, 4, 25, 28 31, 34, 35,78, 94, 95-Bada (heretical tenet), 311Badaraya, 158Badghis, 309, 317, 346, 452Badhan (Persian satrap of-Yaman), 181, 183-Badhdh, Mountain of, 325,326Badi', Abu Muhammad ofBalkh, 467Badi'u'z-Zaman -Hnmadhani,463, 464Badr, Battle of,216Bagayadish (Old Persianmonth), 32Bar Hebraeus (Abul-Faraj),Baghdad, 6. 163, 164, 197-Barfaryad, 162 Bible, 37198, 209, 210, 254, 258, 259, 322, 323274, 286, 289, 292, 293, 295, Barmak (ancestor of Barmecides,306, 307, 316, 317, 329, 339-q.v.), 257, 25834 2 > 34 6 , 353.- 356, 358-361, Barmecides, 164, 252, 254, 257,364, 367, 377, 398, 42. 434-446, 465, 466, 474258, 276, 342Barsom, 52Paul Baehir (Turkish general), 342 Barthelemy, de St. .59Baharistan (of Jami), 417, Barthelemy, 107425. 456Bartholonue, 64Baha'u'llah, 311Barton, Dr. (of Oxford), 50Bahlabad (minstrel of KhusrawBarzaentes (satrap of Darius),Parwiz). See Barbad 9iBahman, 97, 117, 118, 137, 142. Bas-faruj= Abu Sufra, 263See also VohumanoBashshar b. Burd (poet andBahman Yasht, 169sceptic), 267, 276Bahram I. (Sasanian), 154, BacriXtioi SiQOtpat, 122157-159, 163BahramBuaiXtKciII. (Sasanian), 154ctTrofivrifiovtv-Bahram V. (Sasanian), called Hara, 122"Gur," "the Wild Ass," 12, Basra, 184, 216, 219, 223, 245,262, 364263, 270, 289, 296, 302, 349,Bahram Chubin, 109, 129, 181, 35.8, 359, 378, 383, 396, 402267, 352Batinis, 311, 407, 414, 422.Bahrayn, 201, 344, 402Balahbad. See BarbadBakan Yasht, 98See Isma'ilis, Carmathians,Sect ofthe Seven, &c.-Battani, Muhammad b. Jabir-Bakharzi, -Husayn b. Sinan (Albategnius), 363b. 'AH(biographer of poets), 358,448Baur, 155, 191Bayabak (Turkish officer), 342Bakhtiyari dialect, 87 Bayan (of Babis), 101Bako Yasht, 97BayazidAbu (Sufi), 352,Bakr (Caliph), 194, 195, 426-428205, 209, 210, 214, 217, 330. Bayda (= Dizh-i-sapid, "the343, 391, 437White Castle," in Fars), 434-Bakuratu's - Sulaymantyya, Bayhaq, 355203Bayhaqi (historian of GhaznawiDynasty), 331Bakusaya (in Babylonia),158Ba'labakk (Baalbeck), 278,-Bayhaqi (author of Kitabu'l-Mahasin, q.v.), 15, 183 ofi-Baladhuri (historian), no,Baynun (castle in -Yaman),175152, 197, 199, 201, 202, 203, Baysunghar, 122203, 281, 263. 268, 323, 337 Baytu'l - Hikma (" House of-Balaghatu's-sab'a (Isma'ili Wisdom" of the Caliphbook), 401-Ma'mun), 306-Bal'ami, Abu'1-Fadl, 356 ;Baza -gar (= -Athim, "theAbu 'Ali (son of the Sinner," a term applied topreceding), II, no, 356, Yazdigird I, q.v.), 135, 166368-369, 455, 478Balfour of Burleigh, 221Balkatagin b. Alptagin, 372Bazanes (Bishop), 172Beatific Vision, 285, 287, 361Beausobre, 155Balkh, 4, 35, 36, 163, 207, 244, Bedouin, 271. See Arabs.252. 257, 315, 347, 348, 354, Beer, 64425. See also Bactria Behbehan, 87-Balkhi, Abu Zayd (geographer),Behistun (Bagastana, Bi-situn),315, 368, 372Ballad poetry, 16, 17, 185, 31, 63, 66, 70, 78, 92,93Baluchistan, 4, 83Bel, 10Bamdadh (father of Mazdak, Benfey, Prof. , 9, 68q.v.), 169Berbers, 397Bang, W., 64Beresine, 27, 83Banu'l-Ahrar (Persian settlers Berlin Library, 262, 449, 452,in -Yaman), 181, 262464Barbad (minstrel and poet of Bermann, 153Khusraw Parwiz), 14-18 Berosus, 21Barbier de Meynard, 132, 365, Bessus (satrap of Darius), 91368,447Bevan, Prof. A. A., 159,Bardesanes, 160Bardesanians, 382, 387, 415160, 165Bibi Shahrbanu. See ShahrbanuBardiya (Smerdes), 31, 32