Kitabu ’l-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya, 338
Kitabu ’l-Akhbar al-Tiwal, 349
Kitabu ’l-Amali, 131
Kitabu Ansabi ’l-Ashraf, 349
-Kitab al-Awsat, 353
Kitabu ’l-‘Ayn, 343
Kitabu ’l-Badi‘, 325
Kitabu ’l-Bayan wa-’l-Tabyin, 347
Kitabu ’l-Falahat al-Nabatiyya, xxv Kitabu Futuhi ’l-Buldan, 349
Kitabu ’l-Hayawan, 346, 375
Kitabu ’l-‘Ibar, by Dhahabi, 339
Kitabu ’l-‘Ibar, by Ibn Khaldun, 437
Kitabu, ’l-Ibil, 345
Kitabu ’l-Ishtiqaq, 343
Kitabu ’l-Kamil fi ’l-Ta’rikh, 355. See -Kamil of Ibnu ’l-Athir
Kitabu Khalq al-Insan, 345
Kitabu ’l-Khayl, 345
Kitabu ’l-Luma‘, 393
Kitabu ’l-Ma‘arif, xviii, 202, 223, 224, 345, 346
Kitabu ’l-Maghazi, by Musa b. ‘Uqba, 247
Kitabu ’l-Maghazi, by -Waqidi, 144
-Kitab al-Mansuri, 265
Kitabu ’l-Masalik wa-’l-Mamalik, 356
Kitabu ’l-Milal wa-’l-Nihal, by Ibn Hazm, 341, 427, 428
Kitabu ’l-Milal wa-’l-Nihal, by -Shahrastani, 341. See -Shahrastani
Kitabu ’l-Muluk wa-akhbar al-Madin, 13
Kitabu ’l-Shi‘r wa-’l-Shu‘ara, 75, 78, 105, 117, 257, 293, 346
Kitabu ’l-Ta‘arruf li-Madhhabi ahli ’l-Tasawwuf, 338
Kitabu ’l-Tabaqat al-Kabir, 144
Kitabu ’l-Tanbih wa-’l-Ishraf, 353, 354
-Kitab al-Yamini, 355
Kitabu ’l-Zuhd, 247
Koran, the, xvii, xx, xxii-xxv, xxvi, xxvii, 1, 2, 3, 15, 17, 18, 27, 68, 74, 91, 102, 119, 132, 134, 141-143, 144-152, 154-156, 158, 159-168, 169, 172, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179, 183, 184, 185, 187, 192, 201, 203, 207-212, 215, 221, 223, 225, 231, 234, 235, 237, 247, 249, 273, 277, 278, 279, 282, 284, 287, 294, 318, 327, 329, 330, 342, 343, 344, 363, 365, 368, 369, 375, 378, 379, 397, 398, 403, 408, 417, 433, 449, 454, 455, 460, 461, 462, 463, 467
Koran, the, derivation of, 159; collection of, 142; historical value of, 143; arrangement of, 143, 161; style of, 159, 318, 368; not poetical as a whole, 160; held by Moslems to be the literal Word of God, 159, 235; heavenly archetype of, 151, 163, 368; revelation of, 150-152, 159; designed for oral recitation, 161; commentaries on, 144, 145, 351, 455; imitations of, 318, 368, 375; dispute as to whether it was created or not, 262, 368, 369
Koran-readers ( -qurra), the, 209, 210, 277
Kosegarten, 128
Krehl, L., 151, 360
Kremer, Alfred von, 13, 14, 18, 19, 23, 24, 101, 139, 140, 220, 221, 225, 233, 279, 281, 302, 304, 316, 318, 321, 323, 324, 360, 373, 379, 383, 399, 439
-Kufa, xxiv, 38, 70, 127, 133, 134, 186, 189, 193, 196, 198, 202, 207-210, 215, 218, 219, 229, 250, 253, 291, 293, 296, 304, 342, 343, 344
-Kulab, battle of, 253
Kulayb (tribe), 244, 245
Kulayb b. Rabi‘a, 5, 55, 56, 57, 76, 93
Kulayb b. Wa’il, 110. See Kulayb b. Rabi‘a
Kulthum b. Malik, 110
-Kumayt (poet), 138
kunya(name of honour), 45, 50, 112
-Kusa‘i, 244
Kuthayyir (poet), 216
-kutub al-sitta(the Six Books), 337
-Kutubi, 449, 452
L
La Fontaine, 469
Labid (poet), 50, 109, 119-121, 128, 139, 140
Lagrange, Grangeret de, 396, 417
Lahore, 268
Lakhmites, the, of -Hira, 33, 38, 39-49, 54, 69
Lamis (name of a woman), 82
Lamiyyatu ’l-‘Ajam, 326
Lamiyyatu ’l-‘Arab, 79, 80, 89, 134, 326
Lamta (tribe), 429
Lamtuna (tribe), 429
Lane, E. W., 53, 164, 448, 459
Lane-Poole, Stanley, 264, 275, 371, 432
-Lat (goddess), 135, 155
Lata’ifu ’l-Minan, 464
Latifi (Turkish biographer), 460
Laus duplex (rhetorical figure), 311
Law, Muhammadan, the schools of, 283, 284, 363, 465; the first corpus of, 337
Lawaqihu ’l-Anwar, 225, 226, 392
-Lawh al-Mahfuz, 163, 378
Layla, mother of ‘Amr b. Kulthum, 44, 109, 110
Layla, the beloved of -Majnun, 238
Le Strange, G., 256, 356, 357
Learning, Moslem enthusiasm for, 281
Lees, Nassau, 386
Leo the Armenian, 359
Letter-writing, the art of, 267
Lexicon, the first Arabic, 343
Library of Nuh II, the Samanid, 265, 266; of Hakam II, the Spanish Umayyad, 419
Linguistic Sciences, the, 282
Lippert, 370
Lisanu ’l-Arab, 456
Lisanu ’l-Din Ibnu ’l-Khatib. See Ibnu ’l-Khatib
Literary culture despised by the Arabs, 278
litham, 423
Littmann, Enno, 73
Logos, the, 403
Lollards, the, 374
Longland, 450
Loth, O., 1
Lourdes, 382
Love, Divine, the keynote of Sufiism, 231; two kinds of, 234; an ineffable mystery, 387; hymn of, 396; in Sufi poetry, 234, 397, 398, 402, 403
Loyalty, as understood by the heathen Arabs, 83-85
Lucian, 319
-lugha(Lexicography), 283
Luhayy, 63
Lull, Raymond, 404
Lu’lu’, 304
Luqman b. ‘Ad (king), 2, 14
-Luzumiyyat, 315, 316, 319, 323, 324
Luzumu ma la yalzam, 315. See -Luzumiyyat
Lyall, Sir Charles, 32, 54, 71, 75, 82, 89, 92, 97, 101, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 120, 121, 125, 129, 139, 140, 149
M
Ma’ al-Sama (surname), 41
Ma’ab, 63
ma‘ad(place of return), 215
Ma‘add, xix, xx, 112
Ma‘arratu ’l-Nu‘man, 313, 314, 323
-Ma‘arri (Abu ’l-‘Ala), 448. See Abu ’l-‘Ala al-Ma‘arri
Ma‘bad (singer), 236
Ma‘bad al-Juhani, 224
Macbeth, Arabian parallel to an incident in, 25
Macdonald, D. B., 273, 378, 382, 433
Macedonia, 276
Machiavelli, 439
Macoraba, 5, 62
Madagascar, 352
-Mada’in (Ctesiphon), 29, 33, 46, 47, 48. See Ctesiphon
Mada’in Salih, 3
-madh al-muwajjah, 311
-madid(metre), 98
madih(panegyric), 78, 294
Madinatu ’l-Salam, 255. See Baghdad
Madrid, 420
mafakhir, 100
maghazi, 247
-Maghrib, 460
Magi (Magians), the. See Zoroastrians, the
Magian fire-temple at Balkh, the, 259
Mahaffy, J. P., 82
Mahdi, the, 216, 217, 248, 249, 274, 431
-Mahdi, the Caliph, 103, 128, 257, 258, 296, 343, 367, 373, 374, 418
-Mahdiyya, 274
Mahmud (Ghaznevid), 268-269, 355
Mahra, dialect of, xxi
Maimonides, 434
Majdu ’l-Din al-Fúrúzábádú. See -Fúrúzábádú -Majmu‘ al-Mubarak, 355