M 31(Royal Navy), 59Maan:Arab victory at, 99–101as military goal, 379, 390, 394telegraph line cut to, 98Turks bottled up in, 359Mac Andrew, H. J. M., 414MacDonald, Ramsay, 674Macdonogh, Sir George, 444, 445Machiavelli, Niccolт, 457Mack, John E., 188, 582n A Prince of Our Disorder, 513, 695Mackenzie, Compton, 617Madeba, as military goal, 359Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad), Dervish army of, 47Malleson, Miles, 691Malory, Sir Thomas, Le Morte d’Arthur, 179, 243, 401, 402, 630Mandela, Nelson, 449Manning, A. J., 671, 672Manning, Frederic, 265, 672Mao Tse-tung, 29, 309, 686maps:Aqaba-Maan Zone, 97Arabia, 3Battle of Tafileh, 369Hejaz railway, 308Northern Theater, 324Ottoman Empire (by Lawrence), 532–33Turkey’s lifeline, 75Mardrus, J. C., Mille et Une Nuits (’e Arabian Nights), 594Marlborough, Duke of, 60, 669Marsh, Edward, 452, 508, 511, 618, 625, 641, 656Marson, T. B., 575, 627, 674Mason, A. E. W., ’e Four Feathers, 319Maxton, James, 639Maxwell, Sir John Grenfell, 110, 254, 255, 257, 273, 282, 284–85, 322McBey, James, 440McCarthy era (Hollywood), 692McMahon, Sir Henry, 45, 47and Cox, 286as Egypt high commissioner, 7, 12, 246, 257, 266, 273Hussein’s correspondence with, 267–70, 272, 281, 399, 452, 453, 525and Sykes-Picot agreement, 280Mecca:closed to infidels, 10defense of, 37, 41, 47, 53“great Hajj road” to, 190holy city of, 10, 524Hussein as sharif of, 11, 19, 70, 88, 404isolation of, 260pilgrims to, 24, 190, 292sharia law in, 56Turkish surrender of, 292Turkish threats to, 59Medina:failure of attack on, 18, 19, 21, 35, 36, 53, 293holy city of, 10, 524“Pilgrim Road” from, 24railway to, 21, 24, 49, 51, 70, 75–76, 75, 79, 260, 293, 298, 307, 359, 379, 390, 395strategic thinking about, 37, 62, 70–71, 74–76, 81, 111Turkish control of, 59, 293Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 282, 285Mehmed Jemal Kuchuk Pasha “Jemal the Lesser,” 339Mehmet Talat Pasha, 398Meinertzhagen, Richard, 323, 325, 469–71, 512–13, 520, 583–84Merneptah stele, 204Mesopotamia:British control in, 40, 257, 444, 454, 458, 460, 474, 477, 505independent, as goal, 259Indian ambitions in, 256–57, 261intelligence gathering in, 286–87local uprisings in, 505, 506oil reserves in, 253, 257, 268, 279, 454Middle East:ancient hatreds within, 274and Balfour Declaration, seeBalfour DeclarationBritish history of failure in, 290–91British interests in, 506, 510brutality in, 34–35, 96, 290, 349Churchill as head of Colonial Office on, 510–21deteriorating events in, 504–7, 698European ambitions for, 38–40, 67, 81–82, 83, 112, 253, 266, 270, 275, 454, 468, 504–5, 697Lawrence as adviser to Churchill in, 510–13, 515–16, 520, 521, 524–30, 533, 539, 540, 625, 626, 671, 684, 689Lawrence’s achievements in, 530–33, 684, 686, 696–99Lawrence’s developing interest in, 163, 164, 166Lawrence’s first travel to, 166–76Lawrence’s incisive views on, 443–44, 451–52, 474, 505–7, 509, 527, 532–33, 625–26, 629–30oil in, 40, 253, 257, 268, 276, 279, 454, 461, 483, 484, 510, 517, 531, 698and Paris Peace Conference, 100, 460–61, 470, 473, 474, 476, 510San Remo conference on, 504and Sykes-Picot Agreement, 276–80, 361, 458, 486voices of women in, 389–90Weizmann-Feisal agreement on, 465–68 see alsoOttoman Empire; specific nations and tribesMijbil (guide), 341–42, 347, 348Mills, John, 694Mirren, Helen, 694Mitchell, Reginald J., 642–43Mitford, Nancy, 416n, 482Mitla Pass, 106Mohammed (Auda’s son), 80Mohammed Said el Kader, emir, 333, 400, 430, 433Moliиre, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, 663Montgomery, Bernard Law, 28, 483Morgenthau, Henry J., 475nMorocco, as French colonial possession, 48, 442Morris, William, 156–57, 159, 205–6, 212, 598Moses, 2, 63, 233, 237, 245Mosley, Lady Cynthia, 446Mosley, Sir Oswald, 667, 676Mosuclass="underline" British control of, 398, 460, 461, 517French ambitions for, 454Motalga tribe, 367, 368, 370–72Mountbatten, Lady Louis, 670Mount Edgcumbe, Lord and Lady, 651Mudawara, raids on, 311–14, 319–20, 322, 344, 357, 375, 395, 403Muhammad (Prophet):descendents of, 259successors to, 256Muhammad Sharif al-Faruqi, 268, 283Murray, Sir Archibald:and Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 4, 45, 285at Gaza, 4, 70–71, 91, 104–5and Lawrence’s reports, 291and Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 282and military strategy, 5, 29, 285replacement by Allenby, 105, 108, 110, 297, 322Murray, Thomas, 140nMuslims, spiritual leadership of, 261
Nablus, British conquest of, 412Nakhl Mubarak, Arab army at, 54, 56, 57Napoleon Bonaparte, 235, 275Lawrence compared to, 28, 60, 61, 149, 515Lawrence’s studies of, 28, 29military strategies of, 366, 370, 411Naqib of Baghdad, 523Nasir, sharif of Medina, 399and attack on Aqaba, 99, 238journey to Aqaba, 82, 83, 89, 90, 95journey to Damascus, 428, 429journey to Wejh, 65at Sheikh Saad, 417, 424and tribal rivalries, 92on Turkish threat to Aqaba, 301Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 234Nazareth, British conquest of, 411–12Nefudh dunes, 86Nehru, Jawaharlal, 483Nelson, Flight Lieutenant, 546Nelson, Horatio Viscount Nelson, 112, 567, 686, 690Nesib el Bekri, 82, 89New, E. H., 167Newcombe, Stewart F.:as British military adviser to Feisal, 63, 65and Carchemish site, 240and Lawrence’s funeral, 679military skills of, 235mutual respect of Lawrence and, 64, 65, 90and Palestine map survey, 235, 236–38in Paris, 472and raids on railway to Medina, 70, 82and World War I, 250, 252, 254, 257Newspaper Proprietors Association, 673 New York Times, The, 636, 638Nicholas, Grand Duke, 289Nicholas I, Czar, 13Nicolson, Sir Arthur, 274–75Nicolson, Sir Harold, 274n, 475, 583, 656Nightingale, Florence, 449Northern Theater, map, 324Nuri as-Said, 364–65Arab regulars commanded by, 417cutting railway lines, 364, 410deportation to India, 259as former Turkish officer, 19as future prime minister of Iraq, 259at Tafas, 419, 424at Tafileh, 360, 365travel with Feisal to Europe, 457at Um el Surab, 415Nuri Shallan, Emir, 415, 417as Arab ruler, 88–89, 92, 403attacks on Turkish lines, 416, 428at Damascus, 429physical traits of, 91and tribal rivalries, 88Turkish connections of, 88, 89, 95