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This is an index of proper names only. English standard spelling was preferred to transliterations or to French spelling. The article “al” is not considered for alphabetization. ‘Abbasids 158, 304, 322, 338, 340, 341 ‘Abd al-Malik 126 Abu Bakr 107 Abu Muslim 168 Achaemenid 340, 350, 352 Afghanistan 187, 258, 271, 339 Afrasiyab 307 Africa 50, 221, 293 Afshar, Iraj 257 Aghkand 330 Agra Taj Mahal 87, 150, 180, 186, 187, 220, 242, 247 Akbar 52, 186, 340, 342 Akhtamar 234 Alberti, B. 351 Aleppo 88, 109, 113, 115, 139, 140, 159, 162, 163, 164, 166, 168, 169, 191, 335 Alexander the Great 31, 338 Alexandria 121 Algeria 219 Algiers 186 Ali 71, 164 Anatolia 92, 115, 132, 139, 142, 169, 179, 187, 271, 272, 302, 304, 338, 341, 352, 353 Andalusia 84, 339 Ankara 266, 274 Antioch 288 Arabia 44, 91, 93, 124, 125, 133, 186, 248, 313, 337 Arameans 352 Ardalan, Nader 14 Artuqid 341

ash-Shafi‘i 164 Aswan 93, 94, 119 Athens Parthenon 58 Attar 24 Awrangzeb 220 Ayyubids 197 Azerbaijan 87, 88, 138, 231, 257, 258, 269, 271, 299, 322 Azhar 111, 127, 129, 206 Baghdad 51, 98, 109, 111, 113, 131, 133, 134, 137, 155, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 168, 169, 174, 187, 191, 220, 304, 338, 340, 341 Bahram Gur 231 Balis 254 Balkans 75 Balkh 160 Bangladesh 218, 293 Basra 109, 110, 131, 159, 160 Behzad 17, 24, 36 Beirut 234, 266, 280 Benjamin of Tudela 97 Berbers 299, 341 Berlin 66, 98, 100, 247, 258, 273, 311, 312, 313, 318, 320 Bizhen and Manizeh 7 Bourgouin, J. 13, 47 Bukhara 88, 98, 100, 101, 112, 169, 182, 187, 189, 222 Kalayan minaret 182, 187 Bulaq 197 Bulghars 183

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Bursa 191 Buyids 158 Byzantium 122, 285, 336, 338 Cairo 43, 47, 955, 98, 1033, 109, 111, 112, 113, 115, 129, 131, 137, 139, 141, 148, 150, 159, 163, 164, 167, 169, 172 , 187, 191, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 200, 201, 206, 210, 212, 213, 214, 219, 239, 240, 247, 257, 258, 266, 268, 271, 272, 274, 275, 306, 340, 341, 345, 350 Ahmad Ibn Tulun mosque 97, 111, 113, 127, 129, 199, 300 al-Aqmar mosque 164, 198 Baybars Jashankir’s mosque 115, 203, 204, 209 Guyushi Mosque 187 Hakim’s mosque 95, 210 Imam Shafi’i Shrine and Monument 200 Mausoleum of Sultan Barquq 148 Muhammad Ali mosque 219 Rifat Pasha 205 Sultan Qala’un’s mausoleum 201, 202 Sultan Hassan madrasa 43, 164, 172, 201, 205, 206, 300, 305 Yashbak Qusun Palace 209, 210 Caucasus 322 Central Asia 33, 87, 88, 89, 91, 93, 103, 142, 165, 256, 257, 258, 269, 271, 292, 339 Chartres 221, 300 China 31, 55, 57, 221, 265, 266, 293, 325, 329, 342 Choisy, A. 47 Church, Frederic 349 Cilicia 159 Cordoba 955, 977, 111, 112, 127, 128, 129, 131, 132, 146, 152 187, 247, 271, 339 Great Mosque 127, 129, 132, 247, 271 Corinth 288 Ctesiphon 340 Taq-i Kisza 340 Damascus 15, 19, 88, 96, 97, 109, 110, 113, 114, 115, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132,

139, 144, 155, 159, 162, 163, 167, 169, 170, 180, 187, 191, 222, 257, 261, 273 Azem palace 167 Great Mosque 127, 129, 132, 222, 261 Hospital Nur al-Din, room 18, 144 Dante 4, 239 Dashti 152 Daylami 169 Delacroix, E. 4, 349 Delhi 187, 191, 339 Dhaka 218 Disneyland 218 Diyarbakr 169 Dura Europos 7 Dust Muhammad 48, 306 Edhem, Khalil 257 Edirne 219, 247, 306 Selemiye 219, 221, 247 Egypt 6, 13, 87, 92, 93, 122, 127, 149, 159, 160, 172, 179, 186, 191, 239, 247, 251, 256, 269, 271, 272, 280, 281, 285, 292, 294, 302, 306, 307, 312, 322, 328, 329, 332, 338, 341, 350 Escher, Maurits Cornelius 82, 83 Euphrates 93, 123, 130, 139, 160 Evliya Celebi 306 Ezekiel 7 Farhad and Shirin 340 Fars 312, 314, 336, 340 Fatehpur Sikri 52, 186, 220 Fatimids 98, 112, 187, 191, 197, 270, 322, 330, 341 Fez 50, 103, 162, 163, 191 Fustat 97, 109, 157, 160, 170, 211, 254 Gagik 234 Ganja 231 Gayet, A. 47 Gaza 227 Gazur Gah 267, 285 Genesis, Book of 7 Geniza 161, 199 Ghaznevid 339 al-Ghuzuli 306, 343 Goethe, J. 347

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Gogol 10 Goya 9 Granada 139, 141, 143, 165, 169, 231, 241, 339 Alhambra 16, 29, 58, 844, 123, 139, 141, 142, 143, 149, 169, 180, 183, 220, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 241, 242, 243, 247, 248, 249, 261, 271, 339 Gupta 340 Gurgan 159 al-Hakim mosque 209 Hama 110 Hamadan 169 Hanafi 309 Hanbalism 155, 156, 165 al-Hariri 158, 161, 168, 170, 318 Harun al-Rashid 168, 340 al-Hasayn ibn ‘Ubayd 156 Hasan, Sultan 43 Hassan ibn ‘Ali (merchant) 241 Hegel, F. 347 Herat 24, 160, 174 Hirah 43, 304 Hittites 338, 350, 352 Horeb 70 Hungary 219 al-Husayn ibn ‘Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Silsila 155 Hussein 342 Hussein, Taha 40 Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi 306 Ibn Abdun 306 Ibn al-‘Arabi 179 Ibn al-Banna’ 155 Ibn Battuta 165, 185 Ibn Bibi 304 Ibn Fadlan 183 Ibn Hawqal 113, 160, 169 Ibn Hisham 119 Ibn Jubayr 185 Ibn Khaldun 44, 107, 108, 109, 124, 183, 3022, 305, 306, 307 Ibn Miskawayh 156, 157 Ibn Nadim 183 Ibn Tulun 97, 111, 113, 127, 170, 222

Ikat 75, 76 Ilkhanids 341 India 16, 49, 50, 52, 57, 65, 74, 132, 139, 141, 150, 183, 235, 236, 237, 239, 257, 266, 268, 269, 288, 292, 313, 340 Indonesia 50, 75, 247, 293 Iqbal, Muhammad 40 Iran 6, 13, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 36, 48, 51, 52, 64, 72, 887, 88, 911, 92, 93, 97, 102, 111, 115, 117, 122, 130, 139, 141, 142, 147, 149, 150, 157, 159, 162, 163, 165, 166, 170, 171, 174, 179, 183, 189, 200, 218, 231, 235, 240, 241, 251, 257, 258, 261, 262, 269, 271, 272, 274, 276, 283, 285, 288, 292, 299, 301, 302, 306, 307, 313, 314, 317, 322, 325, 327, 328, 329, 331, 332, 335, 340, 341, 350 Iraq 17, 28, 93, 127, 130, 131, 133, 159, 163, 165, 168, 186, 219, 258, 261, 262, 271, 274, 307, 326, 328, 340, 350, 352 Isfahan 16, 17, 18, 73, 74, 88, 96, 109, 114, 115, 141, 145, 146, 147, 151, 152, 158, 164, 168, 169, 174, 180, 183, 186, 189, 191, 220, 221, 232, 233, 240, 247, 254, 271, 283, 285 Ali Qapu 232, 233 Friday Mosque 180 Great Mosque 113, 221, 254 Masjid-i Jum‘a 96, 147, 151, 220, 285 Masjid-i Shah 146, 283 Mihrah 18, 20 Shrine of Lutfallah 186 Islamabad King Faisal Mosque 1 Israel 274 Istanbul 47, 48, 72, 74, 103, 115, 141, 145, 150, 152, 168, 191, 201, 210, 219, 234, 236, 241, 257, 258, 266, 268, 271, 274, 275, 339, 341, 342, 345, 349 Hagia Sophia 36, 74, 150, 141, 242 Süleymaniye 115, 152, 219 Sultan Ahamet’s mosque 219 Topkapı Saray 72, 184 Italy 36, 200 · Iznik 344, 351 Jabal Says 133

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al-Jahiz 160, 174 Jam 187 Jamal al-Din al-Afghani 40 Japan 55, 221, 265, 266, 348 Jelal al-Din Rumi 388, 343 Jerusalem 72, 107, 109, 110, 124, 130, 131, 159, 162, 169, 170, 187, 191, 247, 261, 273, 275, 280, 285 Aqsa Mosque 131, 253, 285 Dome of the Rock 87, 98, 145, 180, 186, 220, 242, 249, 261, 285 Haram al-Sharif 187 Holy Sepulcher 124 Jidda 119 Jonas 165 Jones, Owen 65 Jordan 352 Kairouan 111 Kandinsky. A. 82 Karbala 164 Kashan 166, 174, 329 Kashan luster plate 15 Kazakhstan 339 Khargird 189 Kharraqan 305 Khirbat al-Mafjar 97, 99, 133, 135, 137, 234 Khirbat al-Minyah 98 Khitat Misr 157 Khorasan 312, 314, 315, 335 Kirman 162 Kitab al-muwashsha 304 Konya 141, 191 Kuala Lumpur 122 Kubatcha 330 Kufa 109, 130, 131, 134, 159, 160, 168 Kufic 325 Lane-Poole, S. 47 Lebanon 240 Lewitt, Sol 84 Linjan 73, 74, 240, 243 London 48, 240, 274, 320 Los Angeles 247 Loti, Pierre 349 Lucca 346

Ma’arrat al Nu’man 97 Madinat al-Zahra’ 133, 137 Maghrib 339 Magritte, René 84 al-Mahdi 125 Malaysia 293 Mamluks 31, 43, 115, 119, 122, 191, 197, 199, 200, 201, 206, 208, 209, 251, 267, 315, 341 Mantran, R. 103 Maqamat 158, 161, 162, 167, 168, 305, 318 al-Maqdisi 158, 160 al-Maqrizi 98, 109, 110, 113, 157, 257 Marrakesh 170, 191 Mashhad 164 Massisa 159 Mas‘ud of Ghazna 242 al-Mas’udi 107, 304 Matisse, H. 82, 348, 349 al-Mawardi 108, 109 Mecca (Bakka) 106, 107, 124, 156, 165, 191 Ka‘ba 124, 183, 186, 315 Medina 94, 95, 1106, 1107, 110, 120, 124, 125, 127, 129, 130, 156 Mehmed 342 Merv 112, 160, 168, 236 Mesopotamia 50, 341 Misr 160 Mitchell, So. Dak. 122 Mondrian, H. 71 Mongol 27, 115, 138, 159, 172, 174, 317, 322, 339, 341 Morocco 122, 132, 159, 163, 174, 235, 290 Moses 70 Mosul 113, 160, 191, 332 Mshatta 20, 66, 67, 77, 98, 137 Mughals 31, 33, 191, 218, 235, 248, 335, 340, 348 Muhammad 26, 33, 71, 73 Munich 47, 48, 320 Muqaddasi 183, 306 Muqaddima 107, 183 Murad III 313 Mutawakkil, Caliph 304 Nabateans 352

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Najaf 164 Caliph an-Nasir 169, 209 Nero 225, 226, 227, 231, 232, 237 Nile 192, 352 Nineveh 165 Nishapur 15, 17, 20, 21, 97, 159, 160, 161, 171, 251, 254, 288, 307, 308, 309 Nizami 231, 232, 3166, 317, 318 North Africa 103, 139, 159, 2558, 269, 271, 274, 292, 350 Nubia 119 Nyssa 88, 89, 91 Ottomans 28, 115, 150, 158, 168, 174, 186, 187, 191, 208, 219, 220, 241, 248, 251, 266, 269, 302, 313, 322, 323, 332, 335, 339, 340, 341, 342, 348, 350, 351 Pakistan 280 Palestine 162, 240, 255, 271, 340 Palissy, Bernard 346 Panjikent 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 Paris 48, 239, 240, 274, 347 Arc de Triomphe 222 Persepolis 340 Pharaohs 338 Philippines 177 Plato 181, 351 Prisse d’Avesnes 13, 47 Procopius 153, 179 Pushkin, A. 6 Qala’un 209 Qarafa 109 Qasr al-Hayr, East 133, 134, 157, 161, 168, 241, 254 Qasr al-Hayr, West 133, 136 Qayrawan 159 Qaytbay 187, 209, 215, 240, 242 Qazvin mosque 241, 242 Qum 164 Qusayr ‘Amrah 98, 133, 137, 227, 228, 265 Rabat 159 Raqqa 162, 166 Rashid al-Din 305, 306

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Ray, Rayy 160, 288, 321 Riegl, Alois 47, 62, 77, 259 Rome 71, 89, 92, 134, 191, 235, 236, 248, 341 Golden House 225, 226 Ruskin, John 9, 343 Sabil 208 Safavids 122, 145, 147, 168, 191, 221, 249, 251, 314 Sakaka 118 Samanids 100, 101 Samarkand 109, 138, 145, 152, 159, 160, 165, 189, 191, 236, 254 Mosque of Bibi Khanum 152 shah-i Zinda 165 Tomb of Tamerlane 220 Samarra 98, 111, 127, 129, 131, 133, 134, 137, 141, 159, 182, 184, 251 Sari 330 Sasanians 92, 123, 231, 285, 325, 340, 352 Saudi Arabia 118 Seljuqs 23, 221, 285, 304, 322, 352 Serbia 186 Shafi‘i 309 Shah Abbas 247, 342 Shahnameh 7, 14, 15, 255, 274, 275, 280, 316, 318, 319, 341 Sheba, Queen of 142 Shi’ism 156, 165, 301, 317 Shiraz 98, 275 Siberia 88 Sicily 139 Sikandra 220 Tomb of Akbar 220 Sinan 219 Sinan Pasha Mosque 207 Sinkiang 339 Siraf 164, 166, 168, 174, 254, 261 Soghd 91 Soghdians 94, 339, 352 Solomon 27, 142, 226 Spain 13, 16, 17, 20, 34, 74, 87, 121, 122, 127, 133, 149, 159, 177, 231, 247, 248, 249, 256, 258, 266, 268, 269, 271, 272, 341

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Stella, F. 82, 84 St Augustine 181, 185 St Petersburg 48, 68, 77, 271 Hermitage Museum, Bobrinski Kettle 171, 319 St Thomas Aquinas 185 Stravinsky, I. 344 Suetonius 225, 227, 231, 232, 234, 237 Sufism 156, 173, 179, 301, 309 Suger 153, 179 Sulayman 339, 340 Suleyman the Magnificent 340, 342 Sultaniyah 159, 186, 220, 236, 253 Oljaytu mausoleum 186, 253 Sumerians 352 Sung 33 Susa 254, 288, 325 Syria 92, 97, 110, 131, 157, 159, 163, 168, 241, 248, 258, 269, 271, 338, 340, 350, 351, 352 Taaffe, Ph. 82 Tahmasp, Shah 15 Tamerlane 234 al-Tanukhi 170, 306 Taq-i Bustan 340 Tarsus 159, 288 Tehran 265 Tiflis 172, 316 Tim Mausoleum 147 Tinmal 159 Timurids 191, 241, 242, 285, 314, 339 Tivoli 228 Hadrians’s villa 228 Tlemcen 191 Transoxiana 88 Tripoli 97, 191 Tunis 191 Tunisia 159, 187

Turkey 117, 142, 150, 218, 257, 258, 269, 274, 275, 329, 350 Turkmenistan 339 Turks 174, 199, 234, 265, 341 Twain, Mark 349 Uighur 339 Ukhaydir 133 Ukraine 68, 70 ‘Umar 110, 126 Umayyads 50, 944, 127, 133, 137, 168, 235, 248, 254, 285, 288, 339 al ’Ush, Abu al-Faraj 257 Uzbekistan 75, 76, 339, 352 Valéry, Paul 239 Van, Lake 234 Vasari, G. 351 Venice 6, 7 San Marco 6, 7, 9, 235 Versailles 235 Vienna 77, 259, 318, 347 Violet-le-Duc, E. 47 Vitruvius 217, 351 al-Walid I 94, 125, 126 Waqfnama 306 Washington 172, 247, 273 Wittgenstein, L. 181 Wölflin, H. 351 Xanadu 235 Yamasaki. K. 122 Yazd 64, 162, 191 Yemen 75 Ziyad Ibn Abihi 110 Zoroastrianism 92, 124, 130