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Index

*

A

Aaron 120

Abad Ardashir 8 1

Abarwiz b. Hurmuz 149

'Abdallah 80

'Abdallah b. Abbas 170

'Abdallah b. Abu Ja'far 162

'Abdallah b. Abu Najih

156-7

'Abdallah b. Abu Salamah

162, 166

'Abdallah b. Ahmad al-

Marwazi 80

'Abdallah b. al-Harith b.

Nawfal 170

'Abdallah b. Mas'ud 169

'Abd Bajr 148

'Abd al-Rafi' 165

'Abd al Rahman 155

'Abd al-Razzaq 157-8

'Abd al Samad b. Ma'qil 21,

113, 120

Abihail (father of Esther) 41,

So

Abijah b. Rehoboam 20

Abrahah Tubba' Dhu al-

Manar 79

Abraham b. Peleg b. Eber

30, 59

Abu Hilal Muhammad b.

Sulaym 161

Abu Hudhayfah 148

Abu Hudhayl 148

Abu Hurayrah 165-6

Abu Ishaq 165

Abu Ja'far ( = Tabari) 107,

126 , i5r, 160

Abu Khirash al-Hudhali 137

Abu Makhlad 170

Abu Malik 118

Abu al-Sa’ib 103

Abu Sakhr 166

Abu Salih 118

'Ad ( = Iram) 79, 134, 148

Adam rr4, 184

'Adan 13 1

Adamush 75

Adharbayjan 17, 40, 47, 79

'Adi b. Nasr 134

'Adi b. Zayd 145, 147

'Adiya 153

'Adnan 69

Africa 123

Afridhun 92

194

Index

Aghas b. Bihdhan u, 16

Ahasuerus b. Cyrus b.

Jamasb 48, 50, 51

Ahaz b. Jotham b. Uzziah 3 5

Ahaziah 35

Ahwaz 44, 96

Ajyad 154

Akhust (Frasiyat's brother)

13

Alexander 86, 88-96, 98-

102, 107-8, 127-29

Alexandra (martyred queen)

185

Alexandria 88

'Amaliq 131, 134, 139/ 148

Amaziah b. joash 35

'Amilah 79

'Amir 128

'Amluq (tyrant of Yamamah)

151

Amon b. Manasseh 40

'Amr (of Yaman, crossed the

sands) 78

'Amr b Abd al-JInn al-Jarmi

Hi, 143

'Amr b. Adi b. Nasr b. Rabi

ah 130, 136, 139, 141, 143/

144, 145, 146, 147, 148

'Amr b. Fahm 129- 132

'Amr b. Hammad 55, 118

'Amr b. Maymun al-Awdi

165

'Amr b. Qays al-Mula’i 156

'Amr b. Tharb 138

'Amr b. Zarib b. Hassan b.

Udhaynah b. al-Sumayda'

b. Hubar al-'Amlaqi 138

Anastasius 127

Anbar 66, 67, 69, 79, 127,

128, 130-32

Andirman (Frasiyat's

brother) 12, 73, 75

Andrew 123

'Anqa 75

Antioch 96, 167, 168, 170

Antiochus 96, 97, 167, 168

Antoninus Pius 126

Antoninus (Eiagabalus) 126

Antoninus (Caracalla) 126

'Anz 153

Apollo 174, 176, 183

'Aqil b. Farij 136

'Arabah 68, 69

Arabia 68, 69, 94, 123, 130

Arabs 66, 67, 69; 127-131;

135, 138, 149/ 150

Proto-Arabs 132, 133/ * 39 /

148

Aramaic (speakers of) 69, 93

'Araqi 148

Arcadius 127

Archelaus (son of Herod) 125

Ard al-Rum (Byzantium,

Western Asia) 44

Ardashir 79

Ardashir (Bahman the

Mighty) 81

Ardashir (son of Babak) 82,

93, 96-101, X07, 127/ 129,

149

Ardawan b. Balash 97, 99-

101

Ardawanis 130-31

Ariobus 123

Armanis 130-31

Arsacids (Ashaghan) 99, 101,

102

'Asa (mare and tower) 142

Asa b. Abijah 20-22, 25-35

Asabahar 19

As'ad Abu Karib b. Malkl

Karib (tubba'} 131

Asawira 48

Asb 41

Index

195

Asbat 55, 118

al-A'sha 153

Asher 61

Ashak 93

Ashak b. Ashak 100

Ashak b. Darius 96, 100

Ashak b. Harah . . . Bishtasb

100

Ashakan b. Kayqubad 100

'Asim al-Ahwal 170

al-Aswad b. Ghifar 1 5 1

Athaliah 35

Augustus 95, 124

Aurelian 126

Aus, Aws 154

al-A'war b. 'Amr b. Huna’ah

b. Malik b. Fahm al-Azdl

'Ayn al-Tamr 132

Azariah 51, 61-63, 106

Azd 79, 128

Azwarah 82

B

Babylon-Babylonik 1, 6, 7,

17, 39, 4i, 46, 48-50, 52,

53, 61-64, 67-69, 85-87,

94, 96, 97, 102, 106-109,

in, 123, 130

Badhafrah 74

Bahman 47-51, 79

Bahman Ardashir (city) 81

Bahman bilsfandiyar 78, 83-

85

Bahman Dukht 83

Bahrain 12

Bahram b. Cyrus b. Bish-

tasp 48

Bahrayn 128, 129

Balash 97, 100

Balash b. Shapur 101

Balharith b. Ka r b 70

Balkh 1, 11, 43, 44, 47, 73,

74, 76

Baqqah 132, 140, 141

Bartholomew (apostle) 123

Barwa b. Fashinjan 13, 14

Batn al-Najjar 139

Batunas 156

Bayhas 144

Bayy b. Judharz 4, 8, 11, 13,

15

Belshazzar b. Merodakh 49

Benjamin 20, 6 1

Berbers 123

Berechiah b. Hananiah 66,

67

Berechiah b. Zerubabel b.

Shealtiel 68

Bethlehem 125

Bidarafsh 73

Bifaharid 100

Bihkanid (seven noble men)

77

Bilqis 78

Biri 87, 88

Bi’r Khasif 17

Birunas 156

Bishr 155

Bishr b. Mu r adh 168, 169

Bishtasb 43, 45~47, 71-74,

76-77, 79, 81-82, 85-86

Bistam b. Judharz 17

Bistam b. Kazdahman 15

Bizan b. Bayy 12, 15, 99, 100

Blacks' lands in Africa 123

Bukfarasb = Boukefalos =

bull-headed 9

Bukhtrashah = Nebuchad-

nezzar 43, 48, 49

Bulqayn 136

al-Buraq (the Prophet's

mount) 68

Burazah b. BIfaghan 1 5

196

Index

Burzafrah b. Kayqawus 8-

ii, 14

Bushutan (son of Bishtasb)

73

Buzurjframadhar (the great

commander) 14

C

Caesar Gaius Julius 95, 124

Carus 126

Cave (Kahf) 155

China 11, 80, 94, 154

Chosroes 99-roi

Christians 51, 85, 102, 107-

8, 122-4, 126

Claudius 126; Claudius II

127

Cleopatra cf. Ptolemies 95

Commodus 126

Constantine 98, 127; his

sons 127

Constantinople 98

Cyrus 41, 48

Cyrus Kaykawan 48

Cyrus son of Elam b. Shem

50

Cyrus the Elamite 49, 5 1

Cyrus son of Ahasuerus 5 1,

85-6, 107

D

Dacianus 173

Dadhana 173

Damascus 44

Damascus = Iram 130

Daniel 45, 50-1, 61-3, 106,

116

Dara (city) 89

Dara = Daranawa 89

Darabjird 84, 87

Darius b. Ardashir 88, 91-5,

98, 108

Darius the Elder 83

Darius the Great 82

Darius the Mede 49

Darstan 82

Daws al-'Atq 70

Daws b. Adnan 132

David (King) 5, 20, 23, 31,

44, 46, 48, 61, 108

Dayzan-S (Jadhima’s idol-s)

’ 134

Decius 126, 1 57

Dhu al-Adhar 6, 79

Dihistan 77

Diocletian 126

Dirafsh-e Kabyan 11, 74

Diz Nibisht 72

Dizru’In (Turkish city). In

Arabic: "The one of brass"

Domitian 126

E

Egypt 40, 45 , 94 / 95 / 101,

114, 116, 117, 12.5

Eli 106

Elijah 175

Elizabeth bint Faqud 103

Esther 41, 50, 51

Esther Asturya 82

Ethiopia 50, 150

Euphrates 67, 132, 140

Ezra 64, 65, 86

F

Falhawi (at Mah Nihawand)

77

Faqhal 148

Farakhlad 12

Faramurz 82

Farashkhadh 12

Fars 71/ 74 / 84 / 87, 96, 97 ,

100, 129

Fasal 71

Index

197

Fartah b. Tafaraghan 15

Farudhah b. Famdan 1 5

Fashinjan 15

Fashutan 75

Firan (Frasiyat's general and

heir) 12-13

Firan b. Wisaghan 3-4, 9

Firuzan 101

Florian 127 (brother of

emperor Tacitus)

Franik 82

Frasiyat 2-5, 8-10, 12-13,

16-18, 76

Furdah 141

Furudh b. Siyawakhsh 9

G

Gabriel (the Angel) 112-13,

119, 161, 184

Gaius, son of Tiberius 126

Galienus 126

Gallus 126

Ghatafan 129, 13 1

Ghazaliah 3$

Ghumayr 132

Gog and Magog 27

Goliath 23, 31

Gomer 43

Gordian 126

Gratianus 127

Greeks 86, 88-9, 91-3, 95,

99 i 115

H

Habib 167, 169-170

Habib b. Maslamah 159

Habur (in Hebrew: sincere

convert) no

Hadur 68-9

Hadr (Hatra)

Hadrian 126

Hajjaj 51

al-Hakam b. Bashir 156

al-Hakam b. 'Utaybah 170

Hamadhan 90, 92

Hamasf b. Fashinjan 9

Hammad al-Rawiyah 130

Hananiah 51, 61-3

Hanna bint Faqud 103

al-Harith 161

al-Harith b. Mudad al-

Jurhumi 70

Harran 69

al-Hasan al-Ashyab 161

Hasan b. Hani ( = Abu

Nuwas) 7

Hasan b. Yahya 157-8

Hasan b. 'Umarah 170

Hassan b. Tubba' ( = Dhu

Mu'ahir; = Tubba' b.

Tubba' Tuban; = As'ad b.

Abikarib b. Malkikarib b.

Tubba b. Aqran) 132,

151-4

Hayqar b. al-Hlq 129, 130

Hebrew 76

Helakos 95

Helen 90-91

Heraclius 127

Herat 94

Herod 108, 124-5

Herodias 108

Hezekiah b. Ahaz 35, 40,

48-9

Hijaz 45, 149

Himyar 6, 79-80, 131, 148,

151-2

HIrah 66-7, 79, 127-8,

130-2, 134, 137, 143, 145,

148-9

Hiraj 92

Hisham b. Muhammad al

Kalbi 6, 44, 66, 68, 76, 78,

198

Index

Hisham ( continued )

82-3, 88-9, 96, 98, 108,

127-8, 150-2

Hit 132

Honorius 127

Hudhayl 79-80

Humayniya (on the Upper

Zab) 81

Hurmuz 99-100

Hurmuzan 10 1

al-Husayn 51

al-Husayn b. 'Amr b.

Muhammad al-'Anqari

(and his father Isra’il) 165

I

'Ibad 148

Iblis 1 1 5, 118-20

Ibn 'Abbas 103, 118, 155,

157-8, 161-2, 166

Ibn Bashshar 155, 170

Ibn Humayd 36, 41, 55, 103,

108, 122-4, 150-1, 156,

162, 165, 167, 169-70, 173

Ibn Ishaq 103, 108, 122-3,

150-1, 156-7, 162, 165,

167-71, 173

Ibn Jumayd 156-7

Ibn furayj 5 1

Ibn al-Kalbi 7, 13 1-3, 144,

146, 150 cf. Hisham

Ibn Mas'ud 104, 118, 165

Ibn Qusayt 166

Ibn Ra’in 148

Ibn Sulaym al-Ansarl al-

Zuraqi 123

Ibn Wahb 166

'Ikrimah 155, 158

Ilsharah 78

'Imran b. 'Amr 128

'Imran b. Mathan (father of

Mary) 102

India 21, 28, 35, 47, 50, 71,

79, 88, 95

Iram 130, 148

Iraq 66, 96, 101, 127, 129-

30, 145-7, 149-50

Isbahan (formerly Jayy) 8,

14, 94, 97, 100

Isaac 30

Isaiah 35-7, 40-2, 48, 55,

107, 125

Isbahbadh 2, 10, 14, 44

Isfakhram (Frasiyat's

brother) 12

Isfandiyar (son of Bishtasb)

73-6, 79

Isfandiyar Falhawi (at Rayy)

77

Ishaq b. al-Hajjaj 120, 162

Ishaq b. Yahya 80

Ishmael 30

Isma'il b. 'Abd al-Karim 42,

55, ii3, 120

Isma'il b. Sadus 157

Israfil 184

Israel, Israelites, the children

of Israel 20-1, 25, 31,

35-6, 40, 42-4, 46, 49,

50-2, 54-6, 59, 60-1,

63-5, 68, 70, 85-6, 95,

97-8, 101, 104-5, 107-9,

hi, 120, 126-7

Isra’il 155

Istakhr (Persepolis) 72, 83,

100

Iyad 79, 134

J

Jacob 30, 61

Jadhimah al-Abrash b. Malik

129, 132-42, 147-9

Jadis 132, 148, 15 1, 154

Jadmir b. Judharz 1 5

Index

199

Jair b. Shimei . . . Saul 82.

Jamas 19

Jamasb 41, 73-4

Jamasb b. Qahad 76-7

Jamma (Mountain Aqiq,

near Medina) 123

Jashwadaghan (father of

Judharz) b. Basakhrak b.

Farruyln b. Jabar b. Ras-

wud b. Urath b. Taj b.

Rabasang b. Aras b.

Wedinaj b. Raghar b.

Nawadjah b. Mashwana b.

Nawdhar b. Manushihr

Jawharmaz (brother of Khar-

zasf) 73-s

Jaww (old name of

Yamamah) 132

Jazirah 88, 98, 138

Jehoahaz b. Josiah 40

Jehoiachin b. Jehoiakim 40,

49

Jehoiakim 40, 49

Jehoshafat b. Asa 35

Jeremiah 44-6, 55-6, 58-

62, 68-9, 107

Jeroboam son of Nabat 20

Jerusalem 25, 27 , 37/ 39,

43-4,46, 48,51, 55,6 o - i ,

85-6, 95, 99-100, 108,

124, 126

Jerusalem (Ulya = Aelia)

123

Isa 37, 95, 98-103,

108-9, 112, 114-8, 120-2,

124, 126-7, 143, 156, 168,

173, 175

Jews 47-8, 60, 85, 1 2 1, 154

Jezebel 175

JIbal 96, 100

Jihrazad (nickname of Darius

b. Bahman) 87

Jirjls (St. George) 173-186

Joash 35

Jochanan b. Oshia b. . . .

David 84

John (apostle to Ephesus)

123

John the Baptist (son of

Zechariah) 37, 54-5, 68,

95-7, 101-8, no, 1 14,

119, 127

Jonah b. Amittai (Dhu al-

Nun) 160-6

Jordan River (Urdunn) 98,

ro2

Joseph 61

Joseph with Mary 1-3, 112-

14, 125

Joshua, the son of Nun 26

Joshua b. Pandera 125

Josiah b. Amon 40

Josiah b. Amoz 5 5

Jovian 127

Jubayr b. Mut'im 130

Judah 20, 61, 66

Judas (Judas Iscariot) T23

Jubbadh b. WIsaghan 12, 14

Judham 79

Judharz 8, 10-15, 17-18

Judharz b. Abzan 101

Judharz b. Ashaghan 99

Judharz b. Ashakan 97

Judharz b. Bizan 100

Judharz b. Shapur 101

Ju'fi 79, 80, 131

Jur 100

Jurazm 73

Jurd b. Jarhaman 16-17

Jurhum 70, 131

Jurjan 14, 77

Jurjln b. Miladhan 11, 15, 17

Jusham b. Julhumah 70

Justinus I 126

200

Index

Justinus II 127

Justinian 127

K

Ka'b al-Ahbar 167

Ka'b b. Ju'ayl b. Ajrah b.

Qumayr b. Tha'labah b.

'Auf b. Malik b. Bakr b.

Habib b. 'Amr b. Ghanam

b. Taghlib b. . . . b. Wa’il

(poet) 131

Ka'bah (the sanctuary) 154

Kalb 79, in, 148

Karardashir b. Dashkal 50

Kasrud (river) 9, 76

Kasutunas 156

Kay Arash b. Kayabiwah 1 7,

85-6

Kay Bih Arash 17

Kay Luhrasb 18, 86

Kay Oji b. Kay Manush b.

Kay Fashin b. Kayabiwah

Kayabiwah 17

Kaykadar = Qayqadur 5

Kaykhusraw (son of Siya-

wakhsh) 8-14, 16-19, 43,

86

Kaykhusrawanh 3

Kayqawus i-8, 86

Kayqubadh b. Zagh b. Buj-

bah 1

al-Khadir 55, 58

Khafiyyah 132

Khardus ( = Herod) 109-10

Kharzasf b. Kay Sawasf 18,

72-5

Khatus (wife of Bishtasb) 74

Khazars n, 92

Khazraj 154

Khuman b. WIshgan 12

Khumani (mother of Darius,

nicknamed Shahrazad) 5 1,

74, 81-5, 107

Khunyarth 16

Khuragan 6, 8, 11-12, 43,

84, 92, 94, 154

Khuzistan 17, 86

Kidar b. Fashinjan (brother

of Frasiyat) 4-5

Kindah 131

Kirman 17-73

Lakham 15

Kufah 80, 96

Kurr river (Istakhr) 84

L

Lakhm 79, 134, 136

Lamis bint Zuhayr (sister of

Jadhimah al-Abrash) 129

Lehi 17 1

Leo I 127

Levi 61

Lifar 40

Lihb 135

Lihyan 79-80, 131

Liunan b. Babuttan 125

Luhrasb 19, 43, 45, 47, 73~4,

77, 86

Luhrasf 18

M

Ma'add b. Adnan 67-70, 128,

148

Ma al-Sama’ b. al-Harithah

= al-Ghitrif b. Tha'labah

b. Imru’-l-Qays 128

Macedonia 89

Macrinus 126

Mada’in (Ctesiphon) 101

Maghrib (North Africa) 45,

47, 95, i*3

Magians 106

Index

201

Magnentius 175

Mah Nihawand 77

Mahiyahind (mother of

Darius II, daughter of

Hazarmard) 88

Mahrin 175

Majlitis 180

Maksimilina (Mahsimilina)

156

Malik b. Fahm b. Taymallah

1 30-1

Malik b. Farij 136-7

Malik b. Zuhayr b. 'Amr b.

Fahm b. Taymallah b.

Asad b. Wabarah 129, 131

Malkan b. Kindah 131

Manasseh b. Hezekiah 40

Manushihr 18

Marcian 127

Marcus Aurelius 126

Martus 156

Maurice 127

Marw 94

Mary bint 'Imran b. . . .

Solomon 102-3, 108,

1 1 2-4, 116-7, 119-20,

122, 124-5, 143, 156, 168,

175-6

Mary Magdalene 122

Marzban 11

Matabikh (in Mecca) 154

Mattaniah (Zedekiah) 41-49

Matthew 123

Maximian 127

Maximinus (ghasmiyanus)

126

Mecca 70, 154

Medes, Media (Mahat, Mah)

49, 100, 123

Men of the Cave (Ashab al-

Kahf) 155

Merodakh 49

Michael (archangel) 18 1, 184

Mihrud (river) 76

Miladh b. Jurjin n, 16

Miqsam Abu al-Qasim 170

Mishael 51, 61-3, 106

Mordechai 51

Moses 23, 26, 31, 36, 120

Mosul 40, 79, 96-7, 130,

173-4, ( = Nineveh) 160

Mu’ammal 170

Mu'ammar 157-8

Mu'anah (Ma'add's daughter)

70

Mud 148

Mudar 130

al-Mughirah b. Abi Labid

171

Muhammad 37, 68, 126-7,

156

Muhammad b. Askar 5 5

Muhammad b. Ishaq 35, 41,

55 , 124

Muhammad b. Sahl 21, 42,

55

Mujahid 156—7, 170

Muhr 155

Mukhabbal = Rabi'ah b.

Awf al-Sa'di 147

Mukran 4

Muluk al-Tawa’if 46

Muqatil 156

Murrah al-Hamdani 118

Musa b. Harun al-Hamdani

55, 104, 1 18

Mu'sa b. Talha 80

al-Mutalammis 144

Mutammim b. Nu way rah

137

Muthanna 120

Muthanna b. Ibrahim 162

202

Index

N

Nabat of the Sawad 130

Nabataean 146-7

Najran 67

Naphtali 61

Nahshal b. Harri (of Tamim)

141

Najdah (a tribe of ’Amaliq)

131

Namir b. Tawlab al-'Ukli 153

Narsi 99, 101

al-Nasr (deity) 143

Nasr 148

Nasr b. RabPah 149-50

Nastur b. Zarin 73

Nazareth 125

Nebuchadnezzar b. Nabuza-

radan b. Sennacherib b.

Darius b. Nimrod . . ,

40-1, 43-5, 48-55, 59,

61-71, 86, 104-7, 127-8,

131

Nebuzaradan 109- n

Nero 126

Nerva 126

Nihlus (Ephesus ?) 157

Niffar 130-1

Nineveh 40, 161

Nizar b. Ma'add 70

Nu'man 130

Nu'man b. al-Mundhir 149-

50

Numarah 136, 141

Numarah b. Lakhm 129

Numarah b. Qays b. Nu-

marah 131

O

Omri 35

Ostahan 12

P

Pekoros 10 1

Palestine (Sha’m) 24, 41,

45-6, 48, 52-3, 61, 64,

98-9, 103, 105, 108-9,

116-17, 125-7, 173

Palmyra 139

Paul 123, 126

Persia, Persians 5, 27, 43,

76-7, 82, 85-6, 89, 92-3,

95-6, 98-100, 102, 124-5,

129, 149, 15 1

Pertinax 126

Peter 123, 126

Pharaoh 23, 31

Philip, emperor 126

Philip of Macedon 89, 92-3

Philip (Herod's brother) 108

Philip the Apostle 123

Phocas 127

Pilate (Pontius Pilatus) 125

Probus, emperor 126

Ptolemies of Egypt, Muf-

qanis (Macedon). Ptolemy

(b. Lagos, Dionysos, Cleo-

patra, Philadelphus,

Euergetes, Epiphanes,

Soter, Alexander) 95

Q

Qabus = Kayqawus 6, 44,

76, 78

Qahtan 6

Qalansuwah 7

Qalus 156

Qanas 129, 130

al-Qa'qa' b. al-Darma

al-Kalbi 139

al-Qasim b. al-Hasan 5 1

Qaslr b. Sa'd 140-7

Qatadah 155, 158-9, 168-9

Index

203

Qayrawan and Carthage 123

Quda'ah 79

Quintillus, emperor 127

Qutqutanah 132

R

al-Rabl' 162

Rahab bint Pinchas 82

Raka’ik 80

Rami 19

Ramin r9

Raqash 134

Raqim 155, 156

Ra’s al-Kalb 153

Rasmunas 156

Rass 68

Rastin 87, 88

Raysut 69, 70

Rayy 77, 96-7

Rehoboam 20-82

Reuben 61

Riyah b. Murrah 152

Roman Rulers 126-7

Rome, Romans 47, 82, 84-5,

97-8, 123-5, 158, 167,

171

Rum (Asia Minor) 94

Rushanak 88, 90-1, 93, 95

Rustam 2, 4-7, 76, 81

Ruyin b. Firan 12

S

Sabah b. Sabah 129, 13 1

Sabians 77

Sadiq 168

Saduq 168

Safa 148

Sa'id 168-9

Sa'id b. Jubayr 51, 53, 162,

166

Sakkun 79

Salam 92

Salamah 55, 103, 122-4,

150-1, 156-7, 162, 165,

167, 169-71, 173

Salamah b. al-Fadl 36

Salaman 41

Salaman, the left-handed 40

Salih b. Hilwan . . . b.

Quda'ah 139

Salome 108

Samarqand 94, 154

Sami (a Hebrew prophet)

76-7

Samir Dhu al-Janah 154

Samson 17 1

Sasan 82-3

Satan 184-5

Satih 150

Sawad 67, 81, 88, 96, 98-100

Sayhun, Persian King in

Babylon 52-3

Sayha’in 105-6

Seleucus Nicator 96

Sennacherib 36-8, 40, 48-9,

60

Septimius Severus 126

Sergius (martyr) 124

Severus Alexander 126

Shadus b. Judharz 7, 1 5

Shahr 5

Shahr b. Hawshab 161

Shahrah 5

Shahrazur 94

Shah Ustun (steppe) 10

Shalum 168

Shapur 99-101

Shapur b. Afqur 127

Sharqi 66

Shealtiel 66

Shidah 16

Shiqq 150

204

Index

Shumahan n, 16

Sijistan 2, 73, 76-7, 81

Silf 148

Simak 15s

Simeon 120, 123

Siyamaq 12

Siyawakhsh (Siyawush) 2-4,

7-8, 11-14, 17

Solomon 5, 20, 23, 26, 31,

48-9, 78

al-Suddi 118

Sudhabah 2

Sufyan 156, 170

Sul gate (near Derbend,

Caucasus) 76

Sulayman 80

Surin Falhawi (in Sijistan) 77

Susa 51

Syriac 123, 126, 128, 136,

138, 173

T

Tacit, emperor 126

Talut = Saul 82

Tamidhar, mountain 74

Tamim 79-80

Tarasf b. Judharz 9

Tanukh 129, 136

Tarkhan (Turkish dignitary)

15-16

Tarshish 29

Tasm 132, 148, 15 1 -2

al-Tawi 148

Tayyi’ 79 / 136, 148

Tazid b. Hulwan . . . b.

Quda'ah 139

Thabit 80

Theodosius I, II, The Great

127

Thomas 123

Tiban As'ad (king in Yaman)

79

Tiberias 44

Tiberius (son of Augustus)

125-6

Tiberius II emperor 127

Tibet 76

Tibet, Arabs in 95

Tifshll (a dish)

Tigris 44, 81, 161

Tihamah 128-9

Titus (son of Vespasian) 99,

126

Trajan 126

Tranquilinus 175

Transjordan 45

Traqbalina 181

Tubba' (king of Himyar in

Yaman) 79

Turks 2-5, 8-10, 12-18, 27,

44, 72-4, 76,79

Tus b. Nudharan 5, 8-9

U

Ubagh 134

Ubullah 130, 16 1

Ufaq 148

'Umar b. 'Abdallah b. 'Urwah

b. al-Zubayr 123

'Umar b. al-Khattab 163

Umaym 148

Umm 'Amr 136-7

Umm Salamah 165

Ushtasb b. Lahrasib 41

al-'Uzza (deity) 143

Uzziah 35

V

Valentinian II; III 127

Valerian 126

Vashti 51

Vespasian 126

Vittelius 126

Index

205

W

Wabar 132

Wadi al-Qura 45

Wadi al-Raml 78

Wahb b. Munabbih 21, 42,

55, 65, 113, 118, 120, 122,

157, 167, 171, 173

Wahishtkank (city) 76

Washin 9

Wishgan 13, 15

Wisfafarid 3, 8

Y

Yabrin 134

Yahya b. Berechiah 102

Ya'la b. Muslim 5 1

al-Yamamah bint Murrah (a

Jadis woman) 152, 154

Yamamah (formerly faww

and Qaryah) 133, 15 1-3

Yaman 2, 6-7, 78-80, 123,

128, 131, 149-50, 154

Yamlikha 156

Yamnlkha 156

Yaqtan 148

Yasir b. 'Amr b. Ya'fur

( = Yasir An'am) 78

Yathrib 45, 154

Yazid 155, 169

Yazid b. Ziyad 163, 165

Yazid b. Zuray 168

Yubil 181

Yunus 166

Z

Zab river 8 1

Zabba ( = Na’ilah) 139-148

Zabiba (Zabba 's sister) 139

Zabulistan 7

Zandah b. Shaburighan 15

Zandaray (Frasiyat's brother)

12

Zarin b. Luhrasb 73

Zebulun 61

Zechariah 37, 103, 108, 119-

20

Zechariah b. Berechiah 102

Zedekiah 35-8, 40-1, 49

Zeno, emperor 127

Zerah (Zarj, the Indian king)

21, 24, 27-9, 32-4

Zerubabel b. Shealtiel 82-3

Zion, Mt. 1 1 3

Zoroaster, 46-7, 7i~3, 76-7

Zoroastrians ro7-8

Zuhr 129