Sa‘sa‘a, 242
Sasanian dynasty, the, 34, 38, 40, 41, 42, 214, 256, 358, 457
Sasanian kings, the, regarded as divine, 214
Satire, 73, 200, 245, 246
Saturn and Jupiter, conjunction of, 322
Sa‘ud b. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz b. Muhammad b. Sa‘ud, 466
Sawa, 333
Sayf b. Dhi Yazan, 29
-Sayfiyya College, the, in Cairo, 395
Sayfu ’l-Dawla (Hamdanid), 269-271, 303-307, 311, 313, 360
Saylu ’l-‘Arim, 14
Schack, A. F. von, 360, 416, 436, 441
Schefer, C., 324
Scheherazade, 457
Scholasticism, Muhammadan, 284, 363, 460. See -Ash‘ari; Ash‘arites; Orthodox Reaction
Schreiner, 379
Schulthess, F., 87
Sciences, the Foreign, 282, 283, 358-364
Sciences, the Moslem, development and classification of, 282, 283
Scripture, People of the, 341
Sea-serpent, the, 354
Sédillot, 360
Seetzen, Ulrich Jasper, 8
Seleucids, the, 276
Self, dying to (fana), the Sufi doctrine of, 233
Selim I (Ottoman Sultan), 448
Seljuq dynasty, the, 264, 265, 268, 275, 276, 326, 445
Seljuq b. Tuqaq, 275
Seljuq Turks, the, 275, 444
Sell, Rev. E., 468
Semites, the, xv, xvi, 1, 328
Semitic languages, the, xv, xvi Senegal, 430
Seville, 399, 406, 416, 420, 421, 422, 424, 425, 427, 431, 435, 437, 447
Shabib, 209
Shabwat, 5
Shaddad (king), 1
Shaddad b. -Aswad al-Laythi, 166
Shadharatu ’l-Dhahab, 339, 399, 436, 460
-Shadhili (Abu ’l-Hasan), 461
Shadhili order of dervishes, 393, 461
-Shafi‘i, 284, 409
Shafi‘ite doctors, biographical work on the, 339
Shahnama, the, by Firdawsi, 265, 325
-Shahrastani, 211, 216, 220, 221, 223, 224, 297, 341, 388
Shahrazad, 457
sha‘ir(poet), 72, 73
Shakespeare, 252
Shamir b. Dhi ’l-Jawshan, 196, 197, 198
Shams (name of a god), 11
Shams b. Malik, 81
Shamsiyya, Queen of Arabia, 4
Shamsu ’l-‘Ulum, 13
-Shanfara, 79-81, 89, 97, 134, 326
Shaqiq (Abu ‘Ali), of Balkh, 232, 233, 385
Sharahil (Sharahbil), 18
-Sha‘rani, 225, 226, 392, 400, 403, 443, 460, 462, 464-465
shari‘at, 392
-Sharif al-Jurjani, 456
-Sharif al-Radi (poet), 314
Sharifs, of Morocco, the, 442
Sharik b. ‘Amr, 44
Shas, 125
Shayban (clan of Bakr), 58
-Shaykh al-Akbar, 404. See Muhyi ’l-Din Ibnu ’l-‘Arabi
Sheba, 4
Sheba, the Queen of, 18
Shem, the son of Noah, xv, xviii
shi‘a(party), 213
Shi‘a, the, 213. See Shi‘ites, the
-Shifa, 361
Shihabu ’l-Din al-Suhrawardi. See -Suhrawardi
-Shihr, dialect of, xxi
Shi‘ites, the, xxviii. 207, 208, 213-220, 222, 248, 249, 250, 262, 267, 268, 271-275, 297, 379, 409, 428, 432, 445, 466
shikaft(Persian word), 232
-shikaftiyya(the Cave-dwellers), 232
Shilb, 416
Shiraz, 266, 307
Shirazad, 457
-Shirbini, 450
-shurat(the Sellers), 209
Shu‘ubites, the, 279-280, 344, 372
Sibawayhi, 343
Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, 355
Sicily, xvi, 52, 441
siddiq, meaning of, 218, 375
-Siddiq (title of Abu Bakr), 183
Sidi Khalil al-Jundi, 456
Sifatu Jazirat al-‘Arab, 12, 18, 20
Siffin, battle of, 192, 208, 377
-sihr wa-’l-kimiya(Magic and Alchemy), 283
-Sila fi akhbari a’immati ’l-Andalus, 426
Silves, 416
Simak b. ‘Ubayd, 210
Sinbadh the Magian, 258
Sindbad, the Book of, 363
Sinimmar, 40
Siqadanj, 252
Siratu ‘Antar, 459
Siratu Rasuli ’llah, 349
siyaha, 394
Siyaru Muluk al-‘Ajam, 348
Slane, Baron MacGuckin de, 32, 104, 129, 132, 136, 190, 213, 224, 229, 245, 261, 267, 278, 288, 289, 295, 326, 343, 344, 348, 355, 357, 359, 360, 371, 377, 378, 387, 408, 422, 425, 427, 429, 435, 437, 438, 440, 451
Slaves, the, 413
Smith, R. Payne, 52
Smith, W. Robertson, 56, 199
Snouck Hurgronje, 217
Socotra, dialect of, xxi
Solecisms, work on, by -Hariri, 336
Solomon, xvii
Solomon Ibn Gabirol, 428
Soothsayers, Arabian, 72, 74, 152, 159, 165
South Arabic inscriptions, the. See Inscriptions, South Arabic
South Arabic language, the, xvi, xxi, 6-11
Spain, xvi, xxx, 199, 203, 204, 253, 264, 276, 399, 405-441, 442, 443, 449, 454
Spain, the Moslem conquest of, 203, 204, 405
Spencer, Herbert, 382
Spitta, 378
Sprenger, A., 143, 145, 149, 153, 456
Steiner, 369
Steingass, F., 328
Stephen bar Sudaili, 389
Stones, the worship of, in pagan Arabia, 56
Stories, frivolous, reprobated by strict Moslems, 330
Street-preachers, 374
Stylistic, manual of, by Ibn Qutayba, 346
-Subki (Taju ’l-Din), 461
Suetonius, 354
suf(wool), 228
Sufi, derivation of, 227, 228; meaning of, 228, 229, 230
Sufiism, 227-235, 382, 383-404, 460, 462, 463-465
Sufiism, Arabic works of reference on, 338
Sufiism, origins of, 228-231, 388-389; distinguished from asceticism, 229, 230, 231; the keynote of, 231; argument against the Indian origin of, 233; composed of many different elements, 389, 390; different schools of, 390; foreign sources of, 390; principles of, 392; definitions of, 228, 385, 392
Sufis, the, 206, 327, 339, 381, 460-465. See Sufiism
Sufyan b. ‘Uyayna, 366
Suhaym b. Wathil (poet), 202
-Suhrawardi (Shihabu ’l-Din Abu Hafs ‘Umar), 230, 232, 338, 396
-Suhrawardi (Shihabu ’l-Din Yahya), 275
-Sukkari, 128, 343
-Sulayk b. -Sulaka, 89
Sulaym (tribe), xix Sulayma, 34
Sulayman (Umayyad Caliph), 200, 203
Sulayman al-Bistani, 469
-Suli, 297
-Suluk li-ma‘rifati Duwali ’l-Muluk, 453
-Sumayl b. Hatim, 406
Sumayya, 195
-Sunan, of Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, 337
-Sunan, of Ibn Maja, 337
-Sunan, of, -Nasa’i, 337
-sunna, 144, 234
-sunna, collections of traditions bearing on, 337
Sunnis, the, 207
Sunnis and Shi‘ites. not between the, 445
sura, 143, 159
Sura of Abu Lahab, the, 160
Sura of Coagulated Blood, the, 151
Sura of the Elephant, the, 68
Sura of the Enwrapped, the, 152
Sura of the Morning, the, 152
Sura, the Opening, 143, 168
Sura of Purification, the, 164. See Suratu ’l-Ikhlas
Sura of the Severing, the, 161
Sura of the Signs, the, 162
Sura of the Smiting, the, 163
Sura of the Unbelievers, the, 163
Suratu ’l-Fatiha(the opening chapter of the Koran), 168. See Sura, the Opening
Suratu ’l-Ikhlas, 461. See Sura of Purification, the