Sino-Iranica - The Search For Mecca

GENERAL INDEX
The Index contains also additional information.
A-lo-yi-lo, 378 note 2, 511.
Abel-R£musat, see Remusat.
Abu Dulaf, 351.
Abu Mansur, 194, 209, 298, 301, 306,
307, 315. 320, 332, 350, 354, 364, 366,
369. 370, 373. 38o, 383, 396, 399, 405,
425, 443, 446, 449, 453, 455, 459. 481,
483. 507. 509. 544-547. 549. 55*. 553.
587, 589; Indian elements in pharmacology
of, 580-585.
Abulfeda, 351.
Achundow, A. C, 194, 209, 253, 298,
301, 304, 306, 307, 315, 320, 327, 332,
350, 354, 364. 366, 367, 370, 373, 380,
383, 396, 399. 402, 405, 425. 443. 446,
449. 453-455, 459. 478, 483, 507, 509,
544-547, 551, 580, 583-585, 587-
Aconite, 582.
Acorn, in Persia, 246.
Acosta, C, 356, 528, 550, 556, 591.
Aden, almonds of, 405.
Aeschylus, 320.
Aetius, 586.
Africa, aloes of, 480; date-palm introduced
into eastern, 389 note 1 ; ebony
from, 485, 486; home of Ricinus, 404;
home of sesame cultivation, 290;
home of water-melon, 438; myrrh
from East, 461.
Ahlquist, A., 577.
Ahmed Sibab Eddin, 56 1.
Ai-lao, 489.
Ain-i Akbari, 222, 282, 319, 502, 592.
Ainslie, W., 241, 254, 266, 364, 367, 453,
484, 514, 585, 588.
Aitchison, 343.
Akbar, promoter of viticulture, 240.
al-Akfanl, 566.
Albertus Magnus, 395 note 6, 411.
Alcohol, Chinese allusion to, 237.
Aleni, Giulio, S. J., 433, 527.
Alexander Romance, Chinese in, 570-
571; Ethiopic version of, 566.
Alexandria, 550.
Alfalfa, cultivation of, in Fergana, 210;
history of, 208-219; wild species of, in
China, 217-218. — Alfalfa is cultivated
in Arabia, being styled gadhub
on the South-Arabian coast. The
Arabs also received the plant from
Persia. In Egypt it became only
known during the nineteenth century
under the name "Arabian clover"
599
(bersim hegi&si); cf. G. Schweinfurth,
Z. Ethn., 1891, p. 658.
Almeria, 492, 497.
Almond, 193, 405-409.
Altabas, altobas, term for brocades,
derivation of, 492.
Alum, 336, 474-475-
Amber, 521-523; of Samarkand, 251.
Ammianus Marcellinus, 355, 548.
Amomum, 481-482.
An-si, Chinese name of the dynasty of
the Arsacides or Parthia, 187, 221,
457; cotton stuffs of, 488.
Anabasis, 223, 224.
Andamans, Memecylon on, 315.
Anderson, J., 266, 286.
Andreas, 529.
Anglo-Saxons, cultivation of carrot by,
451, 452; cultivation of coriander by,
299.
Annam, pepper of, 375; Psoralea of, 484;
styled Yavana, 212; Styrax benjoin
of, 465.
Antimony, 509.
Ao-men ci lio, 434, 501.
Apricot, in India, 240, 408; transmitted
from China to the west, 539.
Arabia, alleged home of fig-culture, 41 1 ;
amber from, 522; costus of, 463;
manna of, 346 note 3; myrrh from,
461; saffron from, 310; turmeric exported
from India to, 314.
Arabs, activity in sugar-industry of,
377; date of, 390; gold-dust of, 510;
grapes of, 223; grape-wine of, 239;
importers of asbestos into China, 500;
nux-vomica of, 449; rape-turnip of,
381; symbolism of pomegranate
among, 287; trading
brocades with
Kirgiz, 488-489; viticulture of, 241;
yue no textiles of, 494.
Areca palm, 584.
Argentine, alfalfa in, 219.
Aristobulus, 239, 372.
Aristophanes, 208.
Aristotle, 411, 512.
Armenia, alfalfa in, 218; grape-wine in,
220; peach and apricot in, 539; rhubarb
of, 547.
Armenian apple, Greek term for apricot,
203, 209.
Aromatics, 455-467.
Arrian, 455.