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Index

9

The index contains proper names of persons, places, and tribal and other

groups, as well as topographical data, occurring in the text (and sometimes in the footnotes also), together with technical terms; where the

latter are explained in the footnotes, they are also noted.

The definite article al-, the abbreviation b. (for ibn "son”) and bt. (for

bint “daughter”) and everything in parentheses have been disregarded

for purposes of alphabetization.

A

Abarsam, Sasanid chief minister, 9, 12

Abarshahr, 15, 136

Abarwiz, Aparwez, Khusraw or Kisra

II, son of Hurmuz IV, Sasanid em-

peror, 303-304, 304-14, 317-24,

326-28, 330-39, 342-43, 346,

348-52, 354-57, 359, 371-3, 375“

82, 384-98

Abbas the squinter, Arab raider, 300

Abdallah b. Abbas, tawi, 414

Abdallah b. Abd al-Muftalib, father

of the Prophet Muhammad, 161,

268, 283

Abdallah b. al-Harith, the Prophet's

foster-brother, 271

Abdallah b. al-Thimir, of Najran, 192,

200-202, 204, 206

Abd Kulal b. Muthawwib, king in Ye-

men, 124

Abd al-Masib b. Amr al-Ghassani,

286-88

Abd al-Muftalib b. Hashim, grandfather of the Prophet, 224-28,

233-35, 270-71, 284

Abdal-Qays, Banu, 51, 55, 65, 291-92

Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Bakrah, tawi,

336

Abd al-'Uzza b. Imri’ al-Qays al-Kalbi,

poet, 76-79

Abid b. al-Ajram, Banu, of Quda'ah,

33

Abkhaz, 153

Abrahah, Abu Yaksum al-Ashram,

Abyssinian governor in Yemen,

164, 207, 212-35, 242, 244, 266

Abruwan, town on the Persian Gulf

shores of Fars, 51, 105

Abu Bakr al-§idd!q, caliph, 326

Abu Bakr b. Abdallah, tawi, 327

Abu Kalbah al-Qaysi, poet, 368-69

444

Index

Abu Mas'ud al-Thaqafl, 234

Abu Murrah al-Fayyad b. Dhi Yazan,

216, 242-44

Abu Righal, Abrahah's guide, 223

Abu Salamah b. 'Abd al-Asad al-

Makhzuml, 272

Abu al-Salt al-Thaqafl, poet, 249-50

Abu Talib, the Prophet's uncle, 284

Abu al-Tamahan al-Qayni, poet, 76

Abu 'Ubaydah Ma'mar b. al-

Muthanna, iawi, 339, 358-59

Abu Ya'fur b. 'Alqamah b. Malik,

Lakhmid ruler, 163

al-Abwa’, place in Hijaz, 283

Abyan, place in Yemen, 179, 18 1

Abyssinia, Abyssinians, al-Habashah,

159, 160, 179* 182-83, 204, 208,

212, 224, 231, 235-36, 238, 241,

242, 245, 248, 262, 266

Achaemenids, the Daras, 1 n. 1

Adam, place near Dhu Qar, 3 66

Adam, Adam, the first man, 412, 4r 6

Aden, 159, 240

Adhin Jushnas, 306

Adhri'at, in Transjordania, 325, 327

'Adi b. Aws b. Marina, 343-45

'Adi b. Hanzalah al-Ta’i, uterine

brother of 'Adi b. Zayd, 340

'Adi b. Zayd al-'Ibadi, poet and secretary, 37, 8r, 33r, 341-52

Afrasiyab, legendary king of Turan,

302

Agathias, Byzantine historian, xvi

ahbai, rabbis, r45 and n. 370

ahl al-dhimmah, protected peoples,

260

Ahlaf, of al-Hirah, 21

Ahmar, of the Banu 'Adi b. al-Najjar of

Yathrib, 165

al-Ahwaz, 11-13, 39, 58, 64-65, 255,

291, 407

'A’ishah bt. Abi Bakr, wife of the

Prophet, 4t4

Akhshunwar, king of the

Hephthalites, 1x3-20

Alans, al-Lan, people of the Caucasus

region, 151-52

Alar, village on the Persian Gulf coast

of Fars, 16

Aleppo, 254

Alexandria, 158, 318

Allat, pre-Islamic goddess, 223, 281

Amaj, place in the Hijaz, 168

Amid, Amida, 137

'amil, tax collector, 261

Aminah bt. Wahb, the Prophet's

mother, 269, 271, 274 n. 651, 275,

283

'Amir, Banu, 275-76, 279-82

'Ammar or Ubayy b. Zayd, brother of

'Adi b. Zayd, 340, 348-49, 35 1

'Amr b. 'Adi, Lakhmid ruler, 22, 44

'Amr b. 'A’idh al-Makhzumi, 234

'Amr b. Hujr al-Kindi, chief of Kindah,

122-23

'Amr b. Hah (?), poet, 33, 35

'Amr b. Imri’ al-Kays al-Bad’, Lakhmid

ruler, 67, 74

'Amr II b. al-Mundhir HI, 'Amr b.

Hind, Lakhmid ruler, 163, 237,

242, 370

'Amr b. al-Tallah, chief of the Ansar

in Yathrib, 165-66

'Amr b. Tubba', Tubba' king in Yemen, 122-24

'Amr the Blue-Eyed One, Arab raider,

300

'Amr, brother of Hassan b. Tuban

As'ad Abu Karib, called

Mawthaban, Tubba' king, 184-87

'Amr or Sumayy b. Zayd, brother of

'Adi b. Zayd, 340

'Amr b. Mabdhul, Banu, of the An§ar,

r65

Anahidh, fire temple of, at I§takhr, 4,

15

al-Anbar, Fayruz Sabur, 21-22, 57

An§ar, of Yathrib, 165-67, 174

Antioch, 29, 157, 254*55, 3<H

Anusharwan, Khusraw or Kisra I, son

of Qubadh I, Sasanid emperor,

128, 136, 138-39, 146-62, 237-

45, 252-66, 285-89, 294, 306, 353

'Aqil b. Abi Talib, 269

Index

445

al-'Aqlq, Wadi, at Yathrib, 172

'Aqr Babil, palace in Iraq, 378

Aramaeans, al-Aramaniyyun, 19 and

n. 70

Ardashir I, son of Babak, Sasanid emperor, 2-20, 23-27, 40, 87

Ardashir II, son of Hurmuz n, Sasanid

emperor, 66-68

Ardashir HI, son of Shiruyah, ephemeral Sasanid emperor, 400-402

Ardashlr's fire temple at Jur or

FIruzabad, n, 410

Ardashir Khurrah or Jur or FIruzabad,

10-12, 15-16, 40, 51, 105, 112,

1 16, 130, 382

Ardawan, Artabanus IV, Arsacid emperor, 8, 11, 13-14, 18-20, 22

Ardawanls, Nabataeans of Syria, 19

Arish, forebear of Bahram Jubln, 309

arjabadh, castellan, 6 and n. 15, 104

Armenia, 14, 95, 147, 151, 153, 306,

Airajan, Buqubadh, Warn Qubadh, 12,

130, 137-38

Arsacids, al-Ashakaniyyah, 1 n. 1, 23-

24

Arya*, Abu $aham (? Arethas), Abyssi-

nian commander, 207-209, 212-

15, 232,236

Asad al-Qura?I, Jewish rabbi of

Yathrib, 166

al-Asawif, date palm grove at Yathrib,

167

asawirah, cavalrymen of the Sasanid

army, 102 and n. 258, 245, 378,

403

Asfadh Jushnas, 382, 384-86, 395

al-A'sha of the Banu Rabi'ah, poet,

369-70

al-A'sha Maymun b. Qays of the Banu

Qays, poet, 34, 183, 293-94, 341,

358, 366-67, 369

al-Ashahib "the Shining Ones," sons

of the Lakhmid ruler al-Mundhir

IV, 341

Ashak, son of Khurrah, progenitor of

the Arsacids, 23-26

al-Aswad b. Maq$ud or Maf$ud,

Abyssinian commander, 224

al-Aswad b. al-Mundhir I, Lakhmid

ruler, 126, 162

al-Aswad b. al-Mundhir IV, Lakhmid,

340, 34S

'Ata’ al-Khurasanl, rawl, 327

'Athrn and Yam, Yemeni tribes, 172

'Atwadah, 'Attidah, slave of Abrahah,

215-16

'Awf, Banu, 167

Aws b. Qal(l)am, governor of al-HIrah.

74

'Ayn al-Tamr, place in Iraq, 36

Azerbaijan, 14, 95-96, 98-99, 113,

146, 149, 1 5 1, 303, 306-307, 3 1 1,

313/ 388

Aywan Kisra or Taq-i Kisra, at al-

Mada’in, 285, 287-88, 332, 335

Azadh Firnz, son of Jushnas, called al-

Muka'bir, 290-93

Azadhbih, son of [Adhurj Mahan (?),

Persian governor, 372

Azarmidukht, daughter of Khusraw II

Abarwiz, ephemeral Sasanid em-

press, 399, 406-408

B

Ba Jarma, Beth Garme, district in Iraq,

31 / 58

Bab al-Abwab, al-Bab, Darband, the

Caspian Gates, 162, 299

Baba, king of the Aramaeans, 19-20

Babak, son of \l.y.r.man (?), head of

the Persian army department,

262-63

Babak, son of Sasan, 5, 8

Badaraya, district of Iraq, 254

Badhghis, 299, 302

Badhan, Persian governor in Yemen,

iSi, 331, 375

badiab, purse, 377 and n. 935

Bagh al-Hinduwan, garden at al-

Mada’in, 379

446

Index

Bahram I, son of Sabur i, Sasanid emperor, 43, 45

Bahram n, son of Bahram I, Sasanid

emperor, 4 6

Bahram HI, son of Bahram II,

Sakanshah and Sasanid emperor,

47

Bahram IV, son of Sabur II, Kirman-

Shah and Sasanid emperor, 69

Bahram V Jur or Gur, son of Yazdajird

I, 75, 82-106

Bahram VI, son of Jushnas, known as

Bahram Jubin or Chubln, 301-

304, 306-11, 313-17, 338

Bahram, son of Siyawush, commander

of Bahram Jubin, 310-11

al-Bahrayn, 15-16, 51, 54 - 55 / 63, 253,

290, 347 , 372

Bahurasur, Bahraslr, town of al-

Mada’in, 118, 376

Bakr b. Wa’il, Banu, 55-56, 65, 289,

359 - 63 , 366

Bakusaya, district of Iraq, 254

Balanjar, people of the Caucasus region, 151, 153

Balash, Walash, son of Yazdajird II,

Sasanid emperor, 126-28, 130

Balash, Walash, local king in Kirman,

9-10

Balashawadh or Sabat, town, 127

Balkh, 15, 99, 160

Band-i Qaysar, the "emperor's dam,"

3° n. 94

banjakan, five-arrow volley, 247 and

n. 600

Banu al-Ahrar, "the Free Ones," name

for the Persians, 367, 369

baqaya, arrears of land tax, 99 and n.

253, 376, 404

Baqi' al-Gharqad, at Yathrib, 172

Baraz, head of the Christians in Ahwaz, 255

band, postal and intelligence system,

50 and n. 147, 328

Bariq, fortress in Iraq, 361

Bariz, people in Kirman, 150

Basak (?), son of Mahbudh, 291

al-Bayda’, town in Pars, 6

Baynin, fortress in Yemen, 209

Bazranjin family of Fars, 4-5

Bih Ardashir or the western side of al-

Mada’in, 15-16, 61, 87-88, 376

Bihraslr, district of Iraq, 15

Bil, indicator of the site for Junday

Sabur, 38-39

Bilqis, queen in Saba’, 174

al-Binajan (?), son of al-Marzuban, son

of Wahriz, 252

Binduyah, Bind!, uncle of Khusraw

Abarwiz, 303-304, 307, 309-1 1,

313

Bint al-Qarin, of Shayban, poetess, 365

Bishtasb, Gushtasp, legendary Iranian

ruler, 390

Bistam, Isbahbadh, 91

Bistam, vmcle of Khusraw Abarwiz,

303-304, 307, 309-10, 313

B.n. du (?), king of Maysan, 13

B.n.j.r, people of the Caucasus region,

151,153

the Bosphoms, al-khalij, 327

'.b.ras.yai, tax arrangement, 260 and

n. 626

B.r.mudhat, son of Shabah, ruler of the

Turks

Bukayr, the Deaf One of the Banu al-

Harith b. 'Ubad, poet, 367-68

Bukht Nassar, Nebuchadnezzar, 22,

4i7

Buqaylah, Banu, of Ghassan, 286, 349

Buran(dukht), daughter of Khusraw

Abarwiz, 399, ephemeral Sasanid

empress, 403-405

Burd b. Harithah al-Yashkuri, 365-66

Burjan, the Bulghars of the Middle

Volga region, 161-62

Busra, 270, 282, 327

buzurg fiamadhar, buzuijfarmadhar,

chief minister among the later

Sasanids, 9 and n. 29, 99, 105

Buzurj Sabur, 'Ukbara, town in Iraq,

56

Index

447

Byzantium, the Byzantines, 28, 299,

304, 317-18, 320, 324-27, 378,

394, 400, 404. See also the Romans, al-Rum

C

Caucasus Mountains, 99

China, Chinese, 143-44, 160, 177

Christians, Christianity, at al-Hirah,

the 'Ibad, 21-22 and n. 78, 44; — ,

in Persia, 255, 298, 314-15,—,

among the Romans, 58-59, 61-

62, — , in South Arabia, 124, 192-

202, 205ff., 216

Constantinople, al- Qus{antiniyyah,

58, 103, 143, 319, 321, 376

Ctesiphon, 14, 52, 60-61, 87-88, 97,

1 18, 304, 377, 401, 409

D

Dadhbundadh, secretary of Ardawan,

14 ,

al-Danaq (?), plain in Azerbaijan, 313

Daniyal, Daniel, the Prophet, 57

Data, son of Bahman, 3

Dara, local ruler in Fars, 7

Dara, town in Upper Mesopotamia,

254

Darin, place in eastern Arabia, 55

Darabjird, 6-9

Dardistan, 150

Dasht-i Birin, plain in Fars, 105

Daskarat al-Malik, town in Iraq, 322-

23, 399

dawd, ink holder, 257 and n. 622

Daws, Jew of Najran, 204

Daws Dhu Tha'laban, 203, 206-208

Dawsar, corps of troops in the

Lakhmids' service, 79

Dawud, King David, 187, 416

al-Daybul, in Sind, 107

Daylam, the Daylamis, 160

al-Payzar. See al-Satirun

Dhat Tuman, well of, 165

Dhi’b b. Hajar, tribal group in Yemen,

287

Dhu Jadan al-Himyari, poet, 208-10

Dhu al-Jaddayn, house of Rabi'ah, 356

Dhu Nafar al-Himyari, 22r-22, 225

Dhu Nuwas, Zur'ah b. Tuban As'ad

Abi Karib, 190-91, 194-95, 202-

207, 210-12

Dhu Qar, Day of, Quraqir, al-Hinw,

etc., 338-39, 356, 358, 362-70

Dhu al-Qamayn, 173

Dhu Ru'ayn al-Himyari, 184-86

Dhu Yazan, house of, in South Arabia,

182

Dih, man from Ardashlr Khurrah, 112

dihqdn, Persian landholder, 296, 375

Dijlat al-'Awra’, "the Blind Tigris,"

331-35

Dinak, mother of Hurmuz II and

Fayruz I, 109

diiafsh-i Kabiyan, the banner of Kawah, 308 and n. 720

diwan, government exchequer, 116-

17

diwaniyyah, diwan rolls, 302

diwan al-muqatilab, department of

the army, 262

al-Duff, place in western Arabia, 168,

i73

Dunbawand, 147

E

Egypt, 416

Euphrates River, al-Furat, 80, 300, 210

F

faddam, pandam, cover over the

mouth, 367 and n. 892

fadhusban, provincial civil governor,

146-7 and n. 375, 318, 321, 392,

395, 397

448

Index

Fah.r ( ? ), Chief Mobadh, 9

Farruyah, Apamea, 254

Far'ahbt. Sa'd al-Ta’iyyah, wife of the

Lakhmid al-Nu'man III, 3 5 5

Faraz-mara-awar-khudaya, fire temple

in southwestern Persia, 105

Farghanah, 160

farr(ah),xwariah, "royal glory," 88 n.

232

Farrukh Hurmuz, commander of

Khusraw II Abarwlz, 313

Farrukh Hurmuz, Isbabadh of Khurasan,

406

Farrukhzadh, son of Sumayy, 376, 378

Farrukhzadh Khusraw, son of Khusraw

II Abarwlz, Sasanid emperor, 408-

10

Fars, 3-4, 12-13, 19, 5 i, 54 , 63, 185,

291-92,313

Fasa, 147

Fasin, local ruler in Fars, 7

fatrah, the interval between prophets,

4i3andn. 1021,414

fay’ al-riyah "plunder of the winds," 394

Faymiyun, Christian ascetic of Najran,

193-94, 196-200

Fayruz, Firuz, Peroz I, son of Yazdajird II,

Sasanid emperor, 96, 107-21,

371

Fayruz, Firuz, Peroz II, son of Mihran

JushnasandSaharbukht, Sasanid

emperor through the female line,

408

Fayruz, minister of Shlruyah, 398

Fayruzdukht, daughter of Fayruz 1 , 1 1 9-

20

al-Fayyum, bridge of, 140

Firas,rawf, 364

Fudaylb. 'Abd al-Wahhab, rawl, 413

Fuqa, Phocas, Byxantine emperor, 317,

319

Fuqay m, Banu, of Malik of Kinanah,

218,221

Furumisha, probably Pulakesinll of the

Chalukya dynasty, king of India,

389-90

Fus Farrukh, 402-403

G

Ghalib b. Fihr, Banu, of Quraysh, 180-

81

Ghassan, Ghassanids, 347, 349

Ghumdan, fortress at San'a’, 209-10,

250

H

al-Hadr, Hatra, 31, 34

Hadramawt, 245

Haftanbukht (?), local ruler in the Persian Gulf coastlands, 10

Hajar, 54, 56, 291-92

Hallmah bt. Abi Dhu’ayb, the Prophet

Muhammad's foster-mother, 271-

75

Hamadhan, 14, 372, 376

al-Hamarz, Persian commander, 365-

67

al-Hamim b. 'Awf, Banu, 77

Hammad al-Rawiyah, zawi, 340

Hamzah b. 'Abd al-Muttalib, the

Prophet's uncle, 272

Hani’ b. Mas'ud al-Shaybanl, 356,

358 - 59 / 361

Hani’ b. Qabisah, 359, 363-64

Hanzalah, Banu, 56

Hanzalah b. Tha'labah al-'Ijll, 360-64,

366

Harat, 299, 302

al-Harith b. 'Abd al-’Uzza, the

Prophet's foster-father, 271

al-Harith (Arethas) b. Abi Shamir,

Ghassanid, 353

al-Harith b. 'Amr Akil al-Murar, ruler

of Kindah, 16 1 and n. 408

al-Harith b. 'Amr al-Maqsur, ruler of

Kindah, 125, 139-42

al-Harith b. Mariyah al-Ghassanl, Ibn

Jafnah, Ghassanid or Jafnid, 77-79

Harjand, son of Sam, 24

han as, volcanic regions of Arabia, 179

and n. 460, 181

Harun, Aaron, the Patriarch, 414

Index

449

Harun al-Rashld, caliph, 66 n. 180

al-Hasan al-Ba?ri, proto-$ufi, 35s

Hassan b. Tuban As' ad Abu Karib, Ibn

Ruhm, ruler in Yemen, 183-88

Hassan b. Tubba', king in South Arabia, 122-24, 142, 144-45

Hawdhah b. 'All al-Hanafi, 289-91,

293

al-Hayjumanah bt. 'Amr, 126

al-Haytham b. 'Adi, rawi, 41

frazi, prognosticator, 331 and n. 781

Hazzah or Budh Ardashir, in northern

Iraq, 16

Hephthalites, al-Hayafilah, 107, 1 ro-

ll, 136, 152, 160

Heraclea, 158-59

herbadh, Zoroastrian priest, 33, 298

tJijaz, 332

hima, sacred area, 227 and n. 558, 228

Him?, Homs, 254

Hiniyar, Himyarites, i2iff., 145, 170-

71, 183-84, 188-89, I9 1 , 102,

207, no, 216, 233, 235, 245, 248,

374

Himyaritic language, 243

Hind, woman apostrophized in verse,

292-93

Hind bt. al-Harith b. 'Amr b. Hujr,

princess from Kindah, Lakhmid

queen, 163, 37°

Hind bt. al-Nu'man, mother of the

Lakhmid al-Aswad, 126

Hind bt. Zayd Manat al-

Ghassaniyyah, mother of the

Lakhmid al-Mundhir 1 , 125

Hira’, mountain outside Mecca, 234-

35

al-Hirah, 20-22, 44, 67, 74ff., 124,

142, 177, 182, 237, 347 - 48 , 352,

370 , 371

Hiraql, Heraclius, Byzantine emperor,

319-24, 378

hiibadhan-biibadh, chief herbadh,

104

Hirr bt. al-Nu'man, mother of al-

Mundhir n, Lakhmid, 163

Hisham b. Muhammad, Ibn al-Kalbl,

rawi, 5, 18, 20, 32-33, 444, 67, 7°,

79-81, 109, 111, 125, 139, 161-

62, 187, 21 1, 220, 242, 268, 283,

289, 294-95, 298, 330, 338, 372-

73 , 376 , 379 , 415-16

Hi?n al-Hijara, the "Stone Fortress,"

407, 409

Hubal, pre-Islamic Meccan god, 271

Hubayrah b. Hudayr al-'Adawi, rawi,

292

Hudaybiyah, Day of, 330

Hudhayl, Banu, 168-69, 172-73, 219,

224, 226

Hulwan, town in Jibal, 130

Hulwan, Banu, of Qu^a'ah, 35

Hunatah al-Himyari, 224-26

Hurmuz I, Hormizd Ardashir, son of

Sabur I, Sasanid emperor, 39-43

Hurmuz, Hormizd n, son of Narsi,

Sasanid emperor, 49-50

Hurmuz, Hormizd m, son of Yazdajird

n, Sasanid emperor, 107-10

Hurmuz, Hormizd IV, son of Khusraw

I Anusharwan, Sasanid emperor,

265, 294-98, 301, 303-307, 373,

382

Hurmuz, agent sent against Bahram

Jubin, 315-16

Hurmuzjan, plain of, 13

I

'Ibad. See Christians, Christianity, in

al-Hirah

Ibn Dhi’bah al-Thaqafi, poet, 210-n

Ibn Humayd, Abu 'Abdallah Muham-

mad al-Razi, rawi, 146, 164, 166,

170, 174, 176, 178, 183, 195, 204,

235, 242, 268-69, 272, 282-84,

33 i , 335

Ibn al-Muqaffa', xix

Ibrahim, Abraham, the Patriarch, 169,

225,275,413, 416

*Ijl, Banu, 362, 366

'Ikrimah, rawi, 326-27

'Ilaf, Banu, 33

450

Index

'ilj, "rough one, barbarian," 78 and n.

210, 37s, 378

Imru’ al-Qays I al-Bad’, Lakhmid, 44,

67

Imru’ al-Qays II b. 'Amr b. Imri’ al-

Qays I al-Bad’, 74-75

India, 100- 102

Iram of Dhu Yazan, 180

Iran-Khurrah-Sabur, or Karkh, 57

Iranshahr-Sabur, town in Ahwaz, 65

Isa, Jesus, the Messiah, 192, 196, 199,

202, 275, 413-14, 416

i$babadh, provincial military governor, 91 and n. 237, 104, 131, 149,

3°3, 309, 401, 406

Isbahan, Isfahan, 12, 62, 313

Ishu'hab, Nestorian Christian

catholicos, 405

al-Iskandar, Alexander the Great, 2-3,

416-17. See also Dhu al-Qamayn

Israel, Children of, 276, 414

Istakhr, 3-5, 8, 12, 15, 62, 235, 285,

292, 402, 409-10

I?takhr, fire temple at, 285

Iyad. Banu, 363

Iyas b. Qabisah al-Ta’i, 341-42, 3 5 9—

60, 363, 366, 371-72

Izadh Jushnas, 307

J

al-Jabal, al-Jibal, 14

Jabalah, Day of, 267

Jabbar (or Hayyan] b. Fayd, of Najran,

203

Jabir b. Abjar al-'Ijli, 364

Jadls, Banu, 122

Jafnah b. al-Nu'man al-Jafni,

Ghassanid, 347-8

Jahjaba b. 'Atik b. Lakhm, 74

(al-) Jalabzin, Persian commander,

360-61, 363

Jamasb, Zamasb, son of Fayruz I,

Sasanid emperor, 133-36

Jaramiqah, people of Ba Jarma, 32

jarlb, measurement of surface area,

256 and n. 621, 258, 260-61

Jayhalah, mother of al-Dayzan, 32

Jayumart, Kayumarth, the legendary

first man, 390

al-Jazirah, 137

Jerusalem, al-Bayt al-Maqdis, 318,

416-17

Jews, Judaism, in Yathrib, 165-66,

191; — , in South Arabia, 191,

202-205

Jilinus, Jalinus, Persian guard com-

mander, 384-86

Jirih, place in Fars, 13

jizyat al-jamajim, poll tax, 255 and n.

619

jizyah, poll tax, 259-60 and n. 625

al-Jubabat, 262-63

Jubanan, place in Fars, 7

al-Jubb, near Dhu Qar, 363

Judhamah bt. al-Harith, called

Shayma’, the Prophet Muham-

mad’s foster-sister, 271-72

Jumdan, place in western Arabia, 173

Junday Sabur, Jundishapur, Bih-az-

Andiw-i Sabur, 29, 38-39, 45, 64-

65

Jur. See Ardashir Khurrah

Jurash, in Yemen, 179

Jurhum, Banu, 169

Jurjan, Gurgan, 15, 73, 112, 153

Jushnas Dih, ephemeral Sasanid emperor, 405

Juwani, head of the Persian chancery,

88-89

Juwatha, battle of, 372

Juzhir, Juzhir, local ruler in Istakhr, 5-

8

K

Ka’b al-Ahbar, rawi, 145

Ka’b al-QurazI, Jewish rabbi in

Yathrib, 1 66

Index

45i

Ka'bah, at Mecca, and its haram, 168-

70, 172-73, 177, 218, 221-24, 226-

28, 232-35, 266, 271, 281

Ka'ba-yiZardusht inscription, 3 n. 5, 29

n. 93, 46 n. 137

Kabulis tan, 150

kahin, soothsayer, 175 and n. 445, 179,

279

Kalb, Banu, 78

Karazin, place in the district of Ardashir

Khurrah, 130

Kardfar], son of Mihr Narsi, supreme

commander of the army, 104-105

Kardadhan, fire- temple of, 105

al-Karkhbyal-Sus, inAhwaz, 65

Karkh Maysan or Astabadh Ardashir, in

Lower Iraq, 13, 16

Karun river, here called the Dujayl, 1 2

al-kayiyyah, the qualities of Persian

kingship, 41 and n. 127

Kazarun, in Fare, 1 3

al-Kazimah, in eastern Arabia, 5 1

Kerder, Chief Mobedh, 46 n. 1 37

Khalidb. Jabalah, Ghassanidor Jafnid,

* 5^-53

Khalidb. *Abdal-'Uzza,poet, 166-67

Khalidb. al-Walid, 372

khandaq, trench, 1 1 5

Khandaq, village of Bih- Ardashir, 376

Khaniqin, in eastern Iraq, 357-58

Khaqan of the Turks, 94-99, 126, 128,

152-53,160,265,307

kharaj, land tax, 255,258,261

Khath'am, Banu, 216, 222

al-Khatt or Fasa ( ? ) Ardashir, town in

eastemArabia, 16, 54-55

Khatun, wife of the Khaqan of the

Turks, 98 and n. 251, 265 , 318 -17

al-Khawamaq, palace of the Lakhmids,

75-76,78,81

al-Khayzuran, wife of the caliph al-

Mahdi, 269

Khazars, 59-60, 149, 160, 299

KhunI Sabur ( ? ), town in Ba Jarma, 58

Khumay, building of, 8

Khumaniyah, village in the Sawad, 380

Khir, district near I$takhr, 4

Khurasan, 15, 28, 58, 99, 109-11, 113,

118, 149, 160, 313-14, 406

Khurrakhusrah, son of al-Binajan, 252

Khurrakhusrah, son of al-Maruzan,

375

Khurshidhan, 310

Khusraw I Anusharwan. See

Anusharwan

Khusraw II Abarwiz. See Abarwiz

Khusraw, Kisra n, son of Mihr

Jushnas, ephemeral Sasanid emperor, 407-408

Khusraw Khurrah-zadh, descendant of

Khusraw II Abarwiz, ephemeral

Sasanid emperor, 407

Khusraw Shah Qubadh, palace of, 401

Khuwaylid b. Wathilah al-Hudhali,

226

Khwaday-namag, Book of Kings , xix

Khwarazm, 15, 99

Kinanah, Band, 219, 224, 226

Kindah, tribal group, 122

Kirman, 9-10, 56, 65, 66, 69

kiswah, covering of the Ka'bah, 232

and n. 572

Kujaran, district on the Persian Gulf

coast of Fare, 16

Kun.s (?), place in Fare, 7

kurah, province, 15, 38, 43, 58, 254-

55

Kurdi, brother of Bahram VI Jubln,

304, 308-309, 313

Kurdiyah, sister of Bahram VI Jubin,

309, 316-17

Kurds, 11

Kusa', the proverbial man of, 345

Kushans, 15

Kutha, in Iraq, 15

L

al-Lan. See Alans

Lahazim, Arab tribal group, 368

452

Index

Lakhi’athah (?) Yanuf, Dhu Shanatir,

ruler over Himyar, 188-91

Layth b. Bakr, Banu, 2,76

L.r.w!r (?), place in Fars, 7

Lu’ayy, Banu, of Quraysh, 17s

Lulyanus, the Roman emperor

Julian[us], 58-62

M

Ma’ al-Sama’ al-Namariyyah, Mariyah

bt. 'Awf, mother of the Lakhmid

al-Mundhirl, 124-25, 161, 163

Ma'add, Arab tribal group, 124, 345

ma'afii, Yemeni cloth, 169

al-Mada’in, 14-16, 65, 109, 130, 141,

157/ 159-60, 292, 303-304, 306,

309-10, 313, 323, 336, 376, 407,

410

Ma'di Karib, son of Abu Murrah al-

Fayyad Dhu Yazan, 242, 244

Mah, Media, 97, 296

Mahmud, the elephant sent against

Mecca, 228-29, 233, 235

Mahyay (?), instructor of the cavalry-

men, 403

Majushnasfan, fire-temple in south-

western Persia, 105

Majusnas, son of Mihr Narsi, head of

the department of the land tax,

104-105

Makran, 15, 102

Malik b. al-Nadr, 181

manar, lighthouse, 144

manaiah, tower, 118

manazir, frontier guard posts, 55 and

n. 155

Manbij, 254

al-Mandab, Bab al-Mandab, 21 1

Mam, Mani, Manichaeans, 238, 45,

149

Mani's Gate, at Junday Sabur, 45

Mankah, Indian physician, 66 n. 180

al-Mansa'ah, near Yathrib, 167

Manushihr, legendary Kayanid ruler,

302, 309

Manushihr, local ruler of Pars, 7

Marasfand, 382

Mardanshah, courtier of Khusraw II

Abarwiz, 395-97

Marina, Banu, of al-HIrah, 341, 343

Mariyah bt. Hanzalah, 364

Mariyah bt. al-Harith al-Taymi,

mother of al-Aswad b. al-Mundhir

IV, 340

al-Maruzan, Persian governor in Yemen, 294, 373-75

Marw, 15

Marwan al-Qaraz, 356

Maryam, daughter of the Byzantine

emperor Mawriq or Maurice, 305,

3ii

maizban, warden of the marches, 96

and n. 247, 239, 185, 303, 365,

391

al-Marzuban, son of Wahriz, 251

ma$alih, garrison posts, 140

al-Masani', mountain in Yemen, 374-

75

mashzafi, type of sword, 367 and n.

891

Masruq b. Abrahah, Abyssinian gover-

nor in Yemen, 160, 236, 240, 242,

244-46

Mas'ud b. Mu'attib al-Thaqafi, 223

matmurah, pi. matamir, underground

storehouse, 10 and n. 33, 112

Mawriq, Maurice, Byzantine emperor,

304, 311-15, 3i7, 3i9, 383

al-Maw§il, Mosul, 14, 16, 322

Maysan, in Lower Iraq, 13, 37, 408

Mazdak, son of Bamdadh, Mazdakites,

132-35, 148-49, 153

M.dh.riyyah (?), 148

Mecca, 173, 224-29, 266, 273, 325,

3i7

Medina. See Yathrib

Mih Adhar Jushnas, 400-401

Mihisht, title, 83

Mihr Hurmuz, son of Mardanshah,

395, 397-98

Mihr Narsi, son of Burazah, 99-100,

103-106, 108

Index

453

Mihr Narsi Hazarbandah, vizier of

Yazdajird I, 7a

Mihr Narsiyan, fire-temple in south-

westem Persia, 105

Mihrak, king of Abarsas (?), ro-n,

40-42

Mihran, Persian family, 131-32, 288

mikhlaf, administrative division of

Yemen, 179 n. 462, 212, 249

Minwar, place in Hijaz, 293

al-Mirba', place in northern Iraq, 37

mubadhan mubadh, chief Mobedh, 9

and n. 30, 90-92, 104, 119-20,

132, 245, 265, 285-87, 397

Muijar, Arab tribal group, 44, 67, 219

al-Mughammis, valley near Mecca,

223-24

Muhallim, river in eastern Arabia, 291

Muhallim, clan of Shayban, 367

Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah, the

Prophet, 163-64, 172-73, 175 ,

252, 266, 268-84, 330, 381, 413,

416

Muhammad b. Ishaq, raw!, 146, 188,

199, 202, 214, 217, 221, 235, 251,

^83, 33i

Muhammad b. Ka'b al-Qura?i, raw!,

199, 202

Muhammad b. Khuza'i al-Sulami,

218-20

Muhammad b. Sa'd, iawi, 231

Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Waqidi, idwi,

283, 413, 415

Muhammad b. Yusuf, brother of al-

Hajjaj, 269

al-Muha$§ab, valley near Mecca, 230

Muluk al-Tawa’if, the Party Kings, the

Parthians or Arsacids, 1, 3, 17, 22

al-Mundhir I b. al-Nu'man I, Lakhmid

ruler, 83-89, 93, 124-26, 139,

159, 161, 163

al-Mundhir II b. al-Mundhir I,

Lakhmid ruler, 163

al-Mundhir HI b. al-Nu’man II,

Lakhmid ruler, 253, 353

al-Mundhir IV b. al-Mundhir TIT,

Lakhmid ruler, 341-42, 370

al-Mundhir b. al-Nu'man in al-

Gharur, last of the Lakhmids, 372

Musa, Moses, the Patriarch, 275, 413-

14, 416

al-Mushaqqar, in eastern Arabia, 291-

93

Mushil, Mushel, Armenian ruler, 313

Mufim b. 'Adi al-Nawfali, 234

Muzdbuwadh (?), adviser of Fayruz I,

US

N

al-Nabaf, al-Anbat, the Nabataeans of

Iraq, 19 and n. 71, 375-76

al-nabatiyyah, Aramaic language, 37

al-Nabighah, building of, in Yathrib,

283

al-Nadirah bt. al-Payzan, 34-37

Nahr Darqit, in Iraq, 15

Nahr Jawbar, in Iraq, 15

Nahrawan, in Iraq, 254

Nahrawan river, 304, 307-308

na'ibdh, extraordinary levies, 112 and

n. 288

al-Najaf, 80, 142

NajashI, the Negus, king of Abyssinia,

205-208, 211-18, 221, 232

al-Najjar, Banu, (?) al-Najarah, 165,

167, 284

Najran, 181, 192-96, 198-206

al-Nakhirjan, Persian commander, 372

Namdar Jushnas, 401

al-Namir, Banu, 125, 161

Naqsh-i Rustam, 3 n. 5, 14 n. 56

Narsi, Narseh, son of Sabur I, Sasanid

emperor, 48

Narsi, brother of Bahram Jur, 99

Na$r b. Rabi'ah, the house of the

Lakhmids, 370, 372-73

al-nas, leading men in the state, 1 1

and n. 38, 27, 132

al-Natff, of the Banu Sail*, 289

Nawzadh, son of Wahriz, 240

Naysabur, NIshapur, 58, 65, 128, 130

454

Index

Nimruz, "the region of the south,"

395 - 97 , 401

Niniwa, Nineveh, 32,2

Nlrufarr (?], ruler of al-Ahwaz, 12

Ni?ibin, Nasibis, 28, 62, 321-22, 407,

409

Niw Khusraw, commander, 401

Niwandukht, mother of Khusraw I

Anusharwan, 128-29, 136

N.tra (?), brother of the Khaqan of the

Turks, 317

Nufayl b. Habib al-Khath'ami, 221-

23, 228, 230-31, 233-34

Nuh, Noah, the Patriarch, 413, 416

Nu'm, the gap or slope of, in Arabia,

188, 294.

al-Nu'man I b. Imri’ al-Qays II,

Lakhmid ruler, 75, 79-81, 124-25

al-Nu'man II b. al-Aswad, Lakhmid

ruler, 163

al-Nu'man III b. al-Mundhir IV,

Lakhmid ruler, 339 - 47 , 350-52,

354 - 58 , 361, 370-71

al-Nu'man b. al-Mundhir I, Lakhmid,

85, 87-88, 139

al-Nu'man b. Zur'ah al-Taghlibl, 359—

60, 369

P

Paikuli inscription, 15 n. 60, 48 n. T41

Procopius, Byzantine historian, xvi

Q

Qabus b. al-Mundhir HI, Lakhmid

ruler, 341, 370-71

Qadhuqiyyah, Cappadocia, 29

qafiz, measure of quantity, 260 and n.

267, 261

qalls, qullays, church at San'a’, 217-

21

Qaluqiyyah, Cilicia, 29

Qa'nab al-Riyahi, 292

al-qaryatayn, sc. Mecca and al-Ta’if,

187

qayl, miqwal, petty ruler in South

Arabia, 185 and n. 473, 211, 287

Qays, Arab tribal group, 368

Qays b. Khuza'I al-Sulami, 219-20

Qays b. Mas'ud, of Dhu al-Jaddayn,

356 - 57 , 36i, 367, 369

Qay$ar, Caesar, the Roman or Byzantine emperor, 28, 64-65, 157, 159,

205-207, 21 1, 220-21, 236-37,

253 , 309, 3 i 5 , 327 , 329 - 30 . See

also Byzantium the Byzantines,

and the Romans, al-Rum

Qinnasrin, 254

Q.t.mah (?), Byzantine commander,

327

Qubadh, Kawad I, son of Fayruz I,

Sasanid emperor, 126, 128-42,

152, 255-56, 377

Qubadh, Kawad II Sheroy. See

Shlruyah

Qubadh Khurrah, town in the district

of Ardashir Khurrah, 130

Qubath b. Ashyam al-Kinanl, 268-69

Quda'ah, Arab tribal group, 20, 32-33,

35

qudat al-kuwar, judges of the prov-

inces, 261

Quraysh of Mecca, 225, 227, 276-77,

283, 327

Qurayzah, Banu, 165-66, 173

Qusayy, Banu, of Quraysh, 175

Qustantin, Constantine, Roman

emperor

al-Qutqutanah, fortress in Iraq, 360

R

Rabi'ah, Arab tribal group, 44, 67, 356

Rabi'ahb. Nasr, Lakhmid, 176-79,

182-83

al-Rahidah, place near Dhu Qar, 366

Rahzadh, Persian commander

al-Ramaliyyah, 56

Rambihisht, wife of Sasan, 4-5

Ram-abzud-Yazdajird, title, 83

Ram Ardashir, town in Pars, 1 r, 16

Index

455

Ram Fayruz, town near al-Rayy, 112

Ram Hurmuz, town in Ahwaz, 12, 43,

138

Rathashtaran Salar, rank of the supreme commander of the army,

104

Rawahah b. Sa’d, of the Banu 'Abs,

356

Rayhanah bt. 'Alqamah Dhi Jadan,

216, 242, 244

al-Rayy, 109, 112, 301

Ri’am, sacred site of the Himyarites,

171-72

Riw Ardashir, Reshahr, on the coast of

Fars, 16

al-Riyanus, Valerian, Roman emperor,

29-31

’.r.n.j.d.h (?). slave of Abrahah, 213

Romans, al-Rum, the Roman empire,

2, 28, si, 59-60, 63-65, 84, 103,

108, 137, 143/ 159/ 244, 3*5- See

also Byzantium, the Byzantines,

and Qay$ar, Caesar, the Roman or

Byzantine emperor

\r.sh.sh.yat.y.n, legendary Persian

archer, 302

al-Ruha, Edessa, 254

al-Rumaqan, place in Iraq, 15

al-Rumiyyah, town of al-Mada’in,

157 - 58 / 254-55

Rumiyuzan, Persian commander, 318

Rushan Fayruz, town in Jurjan, 113

Rustam, son of Farrukh Hurmuz, 406-

407

S

Saba’, 'Abd Shams, ancestor of the

Tubba’s, 176

Sabat, place near al-Mada’in, 297,

357-58

Sabur, Shabur I, Sabur al-Junud, Shah

Bur, Ashah Bur, son of Ardashir I

and Khurrazad, Sasanid emperor,

13-14, 16, 22-31, 33-39/ 41-43,

182

Sabur, Shabur n, Dhu al-Aktaf, son of

Hurmuz n, Sasanid emperor, 49-

67

Sabur, Shabur m, son of Sabur n, 68

Sabur, son of Afriyan, 313

Sabur, son of Babak, 8

Sabur of al-Rayy, 131-32

Sa'db. Bakr, Banu, 271-3, 282

al-Sadir, palace of the Lakhmids, 81

al-$afa, fortress in eastern Arabia, 291

Safawan, the toff of, 361

al-Sa’ib, kahin or diviner, 331-32

§alih, ascetic follower of Faymiyun,

196-98

Sali(, rawi, 3 66

Sallt, Banu, 289

Sal4 b. Sa'd, poet, 76

Salma, Sulma bt. Wa’il, mother of the

Lakhmid al-Nu'man m, 241

al-Samahij, place in eastern Arabia, 5 5

Samarqand, 143-44, 177

al-Samawah, in the Syrian Desert, 288

Sanbil (?), place in Ahwaz, 12

§an'a’, 203, 212, 217-21, 249

Sanan, tribal group in Yemen, 287

Sanatniq, king of al-Bahrayn, 15

Sarandib, Ceylon, 264

Sarjis, Sergius, Byzantine commanderin-chief, 312-13

Sasan, forebear of Ardashir I, 2-5, 23-

24

$a'$a'ah b. Najiyah al-Mujashi'i, 289

Satih, kahin or soothsayer, 178-81,

183, 286-88

al-Safirun, al-Dayzan b. Mu’awiyah,

king of Hatra, 31-37

Sawad of Iraq, the, 14, 16, 56, 62, 97,

127, 140, 291, 300, 354, 380

Sawah, 285, 288

Sayf b. Dhi Yazan, Sayfan b. Ma'dI Ka-

rib, 236-42, 249, 251, 264

Shabah, ruler of the Turks, 298-99,

301

Shadh Sabur, king of I$bahan, 12

Shadh Sabur or Dima, town in Lower

Iraq, 37

shadurwan, dam, 30 and n. 94

Index

456

Shaff b. Kulayb, kahin or soothsayer,

175

Shahanshah, title, 14 and n. 56

al-Shahba', corps of troops in the

Lakhmids' service, 79

Shahin, Persian commander, 318, 321

Shahram Fayruz, town in Azerbaijan,

113, 151

Shahrazur, town in Kurdistan, 33

Shahrbaraz, Farruhan, Farrukhan, Per-

sian commander and ephemeral

emperor in al-Mada’in, 219, 321-

13/ 326-30, 400-403

Shahriyar, son of Khusraw II Abarwiz,

379-80

Shamir Dhu al-Janah, Tubba' king in

Yemen, 142-45

Shamir Yur’ish, Tubba' king in Yemen, 176-77

Shamta, son of Yazdin, 398

Sham'un, Simon, the Apostle Simon

Peter, 414

Shann, Banu, of 'Abd al-Qays, 292

Shaqiqah bt. Rabi'ah, mother of the

Lakhmid al-Nu'man I, 75

Sharahil and 'Abd al-Harith, sons of

‘Abd al-'Uzza b. Imri’ al-Qays al-

Kalbi, 77

Shayban, Banu, 356, 363-65, 367

Shiqq, kahin or soothsayer, 178, 18 1-

83

Shiraz, no

Shirin, wife of Khusraw II Abarwiz,

379-80, 389, 403

Shiruyah, Sheroy, Qubadh or Kawad

II, epemeral Sasanid emperor,

378-79, 381-99, 409

Shlz, fire temple of Adhur-Gushnasp,

in Azerbaijan, 95, 97-98

sijill, sealed document, 6 and n. 18

Sijistan, Sistan, 15, 47, 65, 107, 116,

118, 380

Silhin, fortress in Yemen, 209

Sind, Sindis, 65, 102, 150, 238, 243

Sinjibu, Khaqan of the Turks, 152-53

Sinnimar, builder of al-Khawamaq,

75-76, 78

Sinnin, fortress near al-Hirah, 350

Sogdia, al-§ughd, 142

al-su'ada’, "the fortunate ones," corps

of Persian troops, 400

Sukhra, son of Wisabur, called Qarin,

in, 116-18, 120, 127, 131-32,

302

sukhiah, forced labour or corvde, 112

Sul, people of the Dihistan steppes,

150-53

Sul, the gates of, at the southeastern

end of the Caspian Sea, 1 12-13

Sulayman b. Dawud, King Solomon,

416

Suq al-Ahwaz or Hurmuz Ardashir,

town, 12, 16

Surayd b. Abi Kahil al-Yashkuri, poet

Surraq, district in Ahwaz, 12

Suristan, Beth Aramaye, the Sawad of

Iraq, 14

al-Sus, Susa, 52, 65-66

Syria, 33, 79-80, 198, 229, 254, 270,

282-83, 286, 288

T

Tabaristan, 147

al-taff, frontier zone of western Iraq,

361

Taghlib, Banu, 55, 65

al-Ta’if, 223, 253

tajmii, garrisoning of troops along distant frontiers, 53 and n. 151, 383

Takrit, 31

al-Talaqan, town in Bactria or

Tukharistan, 108

Tamim, Banu, 55-56, 289-94, 360

Tansai, Kitab, the Letter of Tansar,

xviii, 17 n. 66

Tanukh, Banu, 20-21, 79

Taq-i Kisra, Aywan-i Kisra, palace at

al-Mada’in, 332, 334-36

Tashan, place in Ahwaz, 12

Tawwaj, town in Fars, 65

Tawq b. Malik, desert tract of, in Arabia, 188

Index

457

Tayyi’, the two mountains of, 35s

Tazid b. Hulwan, fianu, of Quda'ah,

32, 35-36

Thakan, place in Arabia, 287

al-Thamir, man of Najran, 200

Thaqif, of al-Ta’if, 223

Tharthar river, in northern Iraq, 37

Thiyadhus, Theodosius n, Roman em-

peror, 86

Thiyadhus, Theodosius, brother of the

emperor Maurice, 3i2-r3

Thuwaybah, the Prophet Muhammad's foster-mother, 272

Tigris, river and its bridge, 52-53, 112,

285, 287, 322

Tihamah, coastal district of Yemen,

219, 226

tinnln, seven-headed serpent, 197 and

n- 493

Tira, eunuch of Babak, son of Sasan,

6-7

al-Tirbal, palace at Jur, 11

Tirudih, village near I$takhr, 3

Torah, al-Tavnat al-$uiah, 4x2

Tukharistan, X09, rso

Turan, district of the modem Baluchistan, 15

Turks, the Turkish lands, sr, 94ff.,

152-53, 265, 297, 304, 314-17/

388

Tustar, Shushtar, in Ahwaz, 30

Tuban As'ad Abu Karib, Tubba' II,

X46, r 64-78

Tubba' I, t76

Tubba’ b. Hassan b. Tubba', 124, 142

U

Ubayy b. Khalaf al-Jumahi, 326

Ubayy b. Wahb al-Tamlmi, 292

al-Ubullah, town in Lower Iraq, 357

al-ukhdud, the trench at Najran,

a$hab al-ukhdud, the men of the

trench, 195, 202, 204

'Uman, 153

'Umar lb. al-Kh&ttaib, caliph, 206, 260

'Umar II b. ’Abd al-’Aziz, caliph, 336

'Umayr, Arab warrior at the Day of

Dhu Qar, 364

Umayyah b. ’Abd Shams, 268

Umm al-Malik bt. 'Amr b. Hujr, al-

Kindiyyah, 163

Unays, keeper of the elephant Mahmud, 225-26

’Urwah b. Hayyad al-Milasi, 220

'Usfan, place in the Hijaz, 168

’Uthman b. 'Affan, caliph, 268, 289

al-’Uzza, pre-Islamic goddess, 28 r

W

wada’i', rates of taxation, 256

Wahb b. Munabbih, rawi, 195, 199,

331, 415-16

Wahriz, Persian commander in Yemen, 239-42, 245-51, 289, 294

Wari, son of al-Nakhirjan, X47

Wastra’i’ushan Salar, rank of the head

of the department of the land tax,

104

W.r.z, king of the Hephthalites, t52

W.y.n (?), Persian governor in Yemen,

294, 373

Y

Ya'fur, Tubba' commander, 143-44

Yakh^iyanus, Justinian, Byzantine em-

peror, 252-53, 255

Yaksum b. Abrahah, Abyssinian gov-

ernor in Yemen, 235-36, 242, 244

al-Yamamah, district of eastern Arabia, 55, 63, 253, 289

Ya'mar b. Nufathah al-Kinanl, 226

Ya'qub, Jacob, the Patriarch, 4x6

Ya'qub b. Ibrahim, rawi, 414

Yarbu', Banu, of Tamim, 289

Yathrib, the Islamic Medina, 145,

164-74, 283-84

Yazdajiid I, son of Bahram IV, Sasanid

emperor, 70-75, 82-83, 86-87

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458

Yazdajird II, son of Bahrain V Jur,

Sasanid emperor, 106-109

Yazdajird HI, son of Shahriyar, last

Sasanid emperor, 380, 409-12,

Yazld b. Himar al-Sakuni, 363

Yazid b. Iyas al-Nahshali, poet, 76

Yazld b. al-Mukassir b. Hanzalah,

poet, 364

Yazid b. Mus'hir al-Shaybani, 363, 366

Year of the Elephant, in Meccan

chronology, 268-69

Yemen, 106, 121, 149, x6o, 170, 180,

i83ff., 240ff., 264, 331, 373 - 7 S

Yusanus, Jovian, Roman emperor, 59-

63

Z

Zabulistan, 150

Zadhl, Zadhuyah, ra'is al-khawal

"Chief of the Servants," 408-10

Zafar, in Yemen, 187

zamzamah, Zoroastrian religious for-

mula, muzamzimun "mur-

murers," 377 and n. 932, 397

Zaradusht, son of Khurrakan, proto-

Mazdakite, 148-49

Zarawandadh, son of Mihr NarsI, 105

Zarawandadhan, fire temple in south-

western Persia, 105

Zarmihr, son of Sukhra, 128, 130, 134

Zayd b. 'Adi b. Zayd, 35 1—5 5 / 357

Zayd b. 'Amr b. Tubba' I, 176

Zayd b. Hammad, father of 'Adi, 340

Zaynab bt. Aws, al-Ta’iyyah, wife of

the Lakhmid al-Nu'man HI, 355

zindiq, zandaqah, 38 andn. 118, 139,

142

Zoroastrians, al-Majus, Zoroastria-

nism, 2, 313-15, 3 ^ 5 , 387,

al-Zuhri, Muhammad b. Muslim,

raw i, 336

Zur, place in Hijaz, 293 Zurwandadh or Zarawandadh, son of

Mihr NarsI, Chief Herbadh, 104-

105

Zutt, gypsies, 94 n. 243