Umayyads of Spain, the, 253, 264, 347, 405-414
-‘Umda, by Ibn Rashiq, 288
Umm ‘Asim, 204
Umm Jamil, 89
Unays, 67
-‘Urayd, 398
Urtuqid dynasty, the, 449
Usdu ’l-Ghaba, 356
‘Usfan, 22
ustadh, 392
Ustadhsis, 258
Usyut, 454
‘Utba, a slave-girl, 296
-‘Utbi (historian), 269, 354
‘Uthman b. ‘Affan, Caliph, xxvii, 142, 185, 190, 191, 210, 211, 213, 214, 215, 221, 236, 297
‘Uyunu ’l-Akhbar, 346
‘Uyunu ’l-Anba fi Tabaqat al-Atibba, 355. See Tabaqatu ’l-Atibba
-‘Uzza (goddess), 43, 135, 155
V
Valencia, 421
Valerian, 33
Van Vloten, 221, 222, 250
Vedanta, the, 384
Venus, 18
Vico, 439
Victor Hugo, 312
Villon, 243
Vizier, the office of, 256, 257. See wazir
Viziers of the Buwayhid dynasty, the, 267
Vogué, C. J. M. de, xxii
Vollers, 450
Vowel-marks in Arabic script, 201
W
Wadd, name of a god, 123
Wadi ’l-Mustad‘afin, 394
Wafayatu ’l-A‘yan, 451, 452. See Ibn Khallikan
-Wafi bi ’l-Wafayat, 456
-wafir(metre), 75
Wahb b. Munabbih, 247, 459
wahdatu ’l-wujud, monism, 402
Wahhabis, the, 463, 465-468
Wahhabite Reformation, the, 465-468
-Wahidi (commentator), 305, 307
-wa‘id, 297
Wa’il, xix, 56, 57
wajd, mystical term, 387, 394
Wajra, 398
-Walid b. ‘Abd al-Malik (Umayyad Caliph), 200, 203, 405
-Walid b. Yazid (Umayyad Caliph), 132, 206, 291, 375
Wallada, 424, 425
-Waqidi (historian), 144, 261, 349
Waraqa b. Nawfal, 149, 150
wasi(executor), 215
Wasil b. ‘Ata, 223, 224, 374
Wasit, 385, 386
Water-diviners, honoured by the pagan Arabs, 73
-Wathiq, the Caliph, 257, 369
wazir, an Arabic word, 256. See Vizier
Wellhausen, J., 56, 128, 135, 139, 140, 149, 173, 198, 205, 207, 209, 210, 215, 218, 219, 222, 250, 365
Well-songs, 73
Wellsted, J. R., 8
West Gothic dynasty in Spain, the, 204
Weyers, 425
Wine-songs, 124, 125, 138, 206, 325, 417
Witches, Ballad of the Three, 19
Women famed as poets, 89, 126, 127; as Sufis, 233
Women, position of, in Pre-islamic times, 87-92
Woollen garments, a sign of asceticism, 228, 296
Wright, W., 202, 226, 343
Writing, Arabic, the oldest specimens of, xxi
Writing, the art of, in Pre-islamic times, xxii, 31, 102, 131, 138
Wuuml;stenfeld, F., xviii, 17, 129, 132, 190, 213, 245, 253, 275, 295, 357, 378, 408, 416, 452, 459
X
Xerxes, 256
Ximenez, Archbishop, 435
Y
-Yahud (the Jews), 171
Yahya b. Abi Mansur, 359
Yahya b. Khalid, 259, 260, 451
Yahya b. Yahya, the Berber, 408, 409
Yaksum, 28
-Yamama, 25, 111, 124
-Yamama, battle of, xxii, 142
Ya‘qub b. -Layth, 265
Ya‘qub al-Mansur (Almohade), 432
-Ya‘qubi (Ibn Wadih), historian, 193, 194, 349
Yaqut, 17, 357
Ya‘rub, 14
Yatha‘amar (Sabæan king), 4
Yatha‘amar Bayyin, 10, 17
Yathrib, 62. See Medina
Yathrippa, 62
-Yatima.See Yatimatu ’l-Dahr
Yatimatu ’l-Dahr, 267, 271, 304, 308, 348
-Yawaqit, by -Sha‘rani, 403, 460
Yazdigird I (Sasanian), 40, 41
Yazid b. ‘Abd al-Malik (Umayyad Caliph), 200
Yazid b. Abi Sufyan, 426
Yazid b. Mu‘awiya (Umayyad Caliph), 195-199, 208, 241
Yazid b. Rabi‘a b. Mufarrigh, 19
-Yemen (-Yaman), xvii, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12, 15, 17, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 42, 49, 65, 68, 87, 99, 103, 137, 215, 247, 252, 274, 405
Yoqtan, xviii
Yoqtanids, the, xviii, 4. See Arabs, the Yemenite
Yusuf b. ‘Abd al-Barr, 428
Yusuf b. ‘Abd al-Mu’min (Almohade), 432
Yusuf b. ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, 406
Yusuf b. Tashifin (Almoravide), 423, 430, 431
Z
Zab, battle of the, 181, 253
Zabad, the trilingual inscription of, xxii
-Zabba, 35, 36, 37. See Zenobia
Zabdai, 34
zaddiq, 375
Zafar (town in -Yemen), 7, 8, 17, 19, 21
Zafar (tribe), 94
zahid(ascetic), 230
Zahirites, the, 402, 427, 433
-Zahra, suburb of Cordova, 425
zajal, verse-form, 416, 417, 449
Zallaqa, battle of, 423, 431
-Zamakhshari, 145, 280, 336
zandik, 375
-Zanj, 273
Zanzibar, 352
Zapiski, 375
Zarifa, 15
Zarqa’u ’l-Yamama, 25
Zayd, son of ‘Adi b. Zayd, 48
Zayd b. ‘Ali b. -Husayn, 297
Zayd b. ‘Amr b. Nufayl, 149
Zayd b. Hammad, 45
Zayd b. Haritha, 153
Zayd b. Kilab b. Murra, 64. See Qusayy
Zayd b. Rifa‘a, 370
Zayd b. Thabit, 142
Zaydites, the, 297
Zaynab (Zenobia), 35, 36
Zaynab, an Arab woman, 237
Zaynu ’l-‘Abidin, 243
Zenobia, 33, 34, 35
Zinatu ’l-Dahr, 348
Zindiqs, the, 291, 296, 319, 368, 372-375, 387, 460
Ziryab (musician), 418
Ziyad, husband of Fatima, the daughter of -Khurshub, 88
Ziyad ibn Abihi, 195, 256, 342
Ziyad b. Mu‘awiya. See -Nabigha al-Dhubvani
Ziyanid dynasty, the, 442
Zone, the, worn by Zoroastrians, 461
Zoroaster, 184, 258
Zoroastrians, the, 184, 341, 354, 373, 461
Zotenberg, H., 352
Zubayda, wife of Harun al-Rashid, 262
-Zubayr, 190
-Zuhara, 18
Zuhayr b. Abi Sulma (poet), 62, 116-119, 128, 131, 137, 140, 312
zuhd(asceticism), 229, 230. 299
zuhdiyyat, 294
Zuhra b. Kilab b. Murra, 64
-Zuhri (Muhammad b. Muslim b. Shihab), 153, 247, 258
zunnar, 461
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Litigants before a Judge
From an Arabic manuscript in the British Museum (Or. 1200; No. 1007 in Rieu's Arabic Supplement), dated A.H. 654 = A.D. 1256, which contains the Maqámȧtof Ḥarìrì illustrated by 81 miniatures in colours. This one represents a scene in the 8th Maqáma: Abú Zayd and his son appearing before the Cadi of Ma‘arratu ’l-Nu’mán. The figure on the left is Ḥárith b. Hammám, whom Ḥarìrì puts forward as the relater of Abú Zayd's adventures.