-Muhallabi, the Vizier, 267, 347
Muhammad, the Prophet, xxiii, xxvi-xxviii, 3, 10, 15, 18, 27, 30, 51, 62, 64, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 74, 86, 87, 105, 124, 132, 134, 135, 137, 139, 141-180, 181-183, 186-188, 190-193, 201, 202, 207-209, 213-218, 223, 224, 229, 231, 233, 235, 237, 249, 250, 251, 257, 258, 267, 273, 274, 277, 278, 279, 280, 318, 327, 330, 341, 342, 348, 349, 355, 356, 380, 383, 392, 400, 403, 420, 428, 433, 449, 455, 462, 463, 465, 467
Muhammad, question whether he could read and write, 151; his attitude towards the heathen poets, 159, 212, 235; his aim in the Meccan Suras, 160; his death, 175; his character, 179, 180; biographies of, 144, 146, 247, 349; poems in honour of, 124, 127, 326, 327, 449; mediæval legend of, 327; identified with the Logos, 403; pilgrimage to the tomb of, 463; his tomb demolished by the Wahhabis, 467
Muhammad (‘Alid), 258
Muhammad (Seljuq), 326
Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Wahhab, 465-467
Muhammad b. ‘Ali (‘Abbasid), 251
Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha, 466, 468
Muhammad b. ‘Ali b. -Sanusi, 468
Muhammad Ibnu ’l-Hanafiyya, 216, 218, 220
Muhammad b. -Hasan, the Imam, 217
Muhammad b. Isma‘il, the Imam, 217, 272-274
Muhammad al-Kalbi, 348
Muhammad b. Sa‘ud, 466
-Muhtadi, the Caliph, 264
Muhyi ’l-Din Ibnu ’l-‘Arabi, 399-404, 434, 462
Muhyi ’l-Maw’udat (title), 243
Muir, Sir W., 142, 143, 146, 156, 184, 197, 338
-Mu‘izz (Fatimid Caliph), 420
Mu‘izzu ’l-Dawla (Buwayhid), 266, 267, 347
-Mujammi‘ (title), 65
Mu‘jamu ’l-Buldan, 17, 357
Mu‘jamu ’l-Udaba, 357
Mukarrib (title), 10
-Mukhadramun (a class of poets), 127
-Mukhtar, 198, 218-220, 250
-Mukhtarat, 128
-Muktafi, the Caliph, 257, 269, 325
-Mulaththamun, 423
Müller, A., 5, 101, 261, 266, 355, 429
Muuml;ller, D. H., 9, 10, 12, 13, 17, 18, 24
Multan, 203
Muluku ’l-Tawa’if (the Party Kings of Spain), 414
-Munafiqun (the Hypocrites), 171, 172, 176
-Munakhkhal (poet), 49
-Mundhir I (Lakhmite), 41
-Mundhir III (Lakhmite), 41-44, 45, 50, 51, 60, 87, 103, 104
-Mundhir IV (Lakhmite), 45, 47
-Mundhir b. -Harith (Ghassanid), 50, 52
-Mundhir b. Ma’ al-sama, 50, 51. See -Mundhir III
-Munjibat (title), 88
Munk, S., 360
-Munqidh mina ’l-Dalal, 340, 380
munshi, 326
-Muqaddasi (geographer), 356, 357, 409
-Muqaddima, of Ibn Khaldun, 32, 229, 278, 289, 437-440. See Ibn Khaldun
-Muqanna‘, 258
-Muqattam, Mt., 394, 396
-Muqtabis, 428
-Muqtadir, the Caliph, 325, 343, 399
-murabit, 430
-Murabitun, 433. See Almoravides, the
murid, 392
murji’(Murjite), 221
Murjites, the, 206, 220, 221-222, 428
Murra, 56, 57, 58
Mursiya (Murcia), 399
Muruju ’l-Dhahab, 13, 15, 37, 195, 203, 205, 206, 259, 260, 267, 349, 353, 354, 387, 457
muruwwa(virtue), 72, 82, 178, 287
Musa b. Maymun (Maimonides), 434
Musa b. Nusayr, 203, 204, 405
Musa b. ‘Uqba, 247
Mus‘ab, 199
Musaylima, 183
-Mushtarik, 357
Music in Pre-Isiamic Arabia, 236
Musicians, Arab, 236
-musiqi(Music), 283
Muslim (Moslem), meaning of, 153
Muslim (author of -Sahih), 144, 337
Muslim b. ‘Aqil, 196
Muslim b. -Walid (poet), 261
musnad(inscriptions), 6
-Mustakfi (Spanish Umayyad), 424
-Mustakfi, ‘Abbasid Caliph, 266
-Mustansir (‘Abbasid), 448
-Mustarshid Billah, the Caliph, 329
-Musta‘sim, the Caliph, 254, 445
-Mustawrid b. ‘Ullifa, 210
-mut‘a, 262
-Mu‘tadid (‘Abbadid), 421, 425
-Mu‘tadid (‘Abbasid Caliph), 325
-Mu‘tamid (‘Abbadid), 421-424
-Mutajarrida, 49, 122
-Mutalammis (poet), 107, 108, 138
Mutammim b. Nuwayra, 127
-Mutanabbi (poet), 266, 269, 270, 289, 290, 291, 292, 304-313, 315, 316, 324, 396, 416, 448
mutasawwifa(aspirants to Sufiism), 229
-Mu‘tasim, the Caliph, 129, 257, 263, 369, 375
-Mutawakkil, the Caliph, 257, 264, 284, 344, 350, 369, 375, 376, 388
mutawakkil, 233
Mu‘tazilites, the, 206, 220, 222-224, 225, 230, 262, 268, 284, 346, 367-370, 376, 377, 378, 392, 409, 428, 431
-Mu‘tazz, the Caliph, 325
-Muti‘, the Caliph, 353
Muti‘ b. Iyas (poet), 291, 292
muwahhid, 432
-Muwalladun, 278, 408
muwashshah, verse-form, 416, 417, 449
-Muwatta’, 337, 408, 409
Muzaffar Qutuz (Mameluke), 446
Muzayna (tribe), 116
-Muzayqiya (surname), 15
-Muzhir, 71, 455
Mystical poetry of the Arabs, the, 325, 396-398, 403
Mysticism. See Sufiism
N
-Nabat, the Nabatæans, xxv, 279
Nabatæan, Moslem use of the term, xxv
Nabatæan Agriculture, the Book of, xxv
Nabatæan inscriptions, xxv, 3
-Nabigha al-Dhubyam (poet), 39, 49, 50, 54, 86, 101, 121-123, 128, 139
nadhir(warner), 164
Nadir (tribe), 170
-Nadr b. -Harith, 330
Nafahatu ’l'Uns, by Jami, 386
Nafhu ’l-Tib, by -Maqqari, 399, 413, 436
Nafi‘ b. -Azraq, 208
-Nafs al-zakiyya (title), 258
-Nahhas (philologist), 102
-Nahrawan, battle of, 208
-nahw(grammar), 283
Na’ila, 35
-Najaf, 40
-Najashi (the Negus), 26, 27, 28
Najd, xvii, 62, 107, 466
Najda b. ‘Amir, 209
Najdites (a Kharijite sect), the, 208
Najran, 26, 27, 105, 124, 136, 137, 162
Na‘man, 11
Namir (tribe), xix Napoleon, 468
-Naqa’id, of -Akhtal and Jarir, 240
-Naqa’id, of Jarir and -Farazdaq, 239
Naqb al-Hajar, 8
-Nasafi (Abu ’l-Barakat), 456
-Nasa’i, 337
Nashwan b. Sa‘id al-Himyari, 12, 13
nasib(erotic prelude), 77, 310
Nasim, a place near Baghdad, 461
-Nasimi (the Hurufi poet), 460, 461
Nasir-i Khusraw, Persian poet, 323
Nasiru ’l-Dawla (Hamdanid), 269, 411
Nasr b. Sayyar, 251
Nasr II (Samanid), 265
Nasrid dynasty of Granada, the, 435, 442
nat‘, 257
-Nawaji (Muhammad b. -Hasan), 417
Nawar, wife of -Farazdaq, 243, 244
Nawar, the beloved of Labid, 121
Nawruz, Persian festival, 250
Naysabur, 232, 276, 338, 339, 340, 348
Nazmu ’l-Suluk, 396
-Nazzam, 369
Neo-platonism, 360, 384, 389, 390
Neo-platonist philosophers welcomed by Nushirwan, 358
Nero, 325
Nessus, 104
Nicephorus, 261
Niebuhr, Carsten, 7
Night journey of Muhammad, the, 169, 403
Night of Power, the, 150
Nihayatu ’l-Aráb, 455
Nile, the, xxviii, 264, 354, 455
Nirvana, 233, 391
-Nizamiyya College, at Baghdad, 276, 340, 380, 431
-Nizamiyya College, at Naysabur, 276, 340