INDEX

A

‘Abbas I, 168–169, 170, 172–173

‘Abbasids, 15, 52, 74, 75–76, 77, 78, 80–85, 86, 89, 93–94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 105, 106, 113, 115, 121, 122, 133, 136, 139, 142, 192

‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, 65, 67–68, 69

‘Abd al-Rahman I, 80, 95, 96

‘Abd al-Rahman III, 95–97

‘Abd al-Raziq, ‘Ali, 194

‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, 126

‘Abduh, Muhammad, 102, 192, 195

‘Amr ibn al-‘As, 58, 64

Abu ‘Abd Allah al-Shi‘i, 98–99

Abu al-‘Abbas al-Saffah, 76

Abu al-Fadl, 173

Abu Bakr, 29, 40, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 66

Abu Bakr ibn ‘Umar, 148

Abu Hashim, 76

Abu Muslim, 75, 76, 80

Abu Talib, 13, 39

Abyssinians, 25, 27, 28, 32

al-‘Adawiyyah, Rabi‘ah, 108

al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din, 102, 192, 195

agrarian-based societies, rise of, 21–22

Ahmad, Muhammad, 190

Ahmad Baba, 180–181

Ahmad Grañ, 180

‘A’ishah (Muhammad’s wife), 48, 59, 63

Akbar, 172–174, 177, 190 ‘Alawites, 179

Al-e Ahmad, Jalal, 200–201

‘Ali, 14, 59, 61–65, 75, 76, 77, 80, 99, 110, 165–166, 179

‘Ali, Muhammad, 188

Almohads, 151–152

Almoravids, 148–151, 180

Alp-Arslan, 121, 122, 124, 125

Amazigh tribes, 66, 72, 97, 99, 146–147, 149, 152, 179, 194

al-Amin, 83, 87

Andalusia, Islamic dynasties in, 72–73, 89, 95–97, 147, 149, 151–152, 158

Arabian Peninsula, 25–28, 43, 58, 191

and trade routes, 12, 26, 30, 34

Arabic language, use of, 53, 67–68, 69, 70, 94, 114, 140, 146, 163, 195, 196, 212

Arabs, migration of, 133, 146–147

al-Ash‘ari, Abu al-Hasan, 104–107

al-Ash‘ari, Abu Musa, 64

Ash‘arites, 150–151

Askia, Muhammad I, 180

al-Assad, Hafiz, 199

Aurangzeb, 174, 175, 176, 177

Avicenna (Ibn Sina), 114

Awliya’, Nizam al-Din, 139

Axial Age, 20, 24–25, 37

Ayyubids, 101, 131, 133

al-Azhar University, 100, 101–102

B

Babak, 89

Babur, 15–16, 146, 170–172

Badr, Battle of, 43

Baghdad, 15, 80, 82, 85, 89, 93, 94, 100, 104, 105, 108, 109, 112–113, 116, 117, 121, 125, 126, 128, 136, 137, 149

Baha’i, 191

al-Banna’, Hasan, 194, 198

Barakat, Sidi, 178

al-Basri, al-Hasan, 74–75, 107–108

Baybars I, 136

Bayezid (son of Süleyman), 162

Bayezid I, 143

Bayhaqi, Abu al-Fadl, 116–117

Bedouins, 26, 30, 33, 37, 45, 46, 49, 103, 146

ben Badis, ‘Abd al-Hamid, 196

bin Laden, Osama, 211

al-Biruni, 116

Bistami, Abu Yazid, 108

Black Death, 156

British colonialism, 190–191

al-Bukhari, 92

Buyids/Buwayhids, 108–110, 114, 115, 117, 121, 123, 154

Byzantines, 16, 21, 28, 32, 53–54, 58, 65, 67, 68, 69, 82, 97, 98, 100, 103, 111, 121, 122, 127, 128, 142, 159, 160

C

Cairo, 15, 100, 101, 123, 136, 139, 140, 149, 152, 154

caliphs/caliphate, 14, 29, 48, 49, 51, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 70, 74, 75, 76, 89, 90, 94, 95, 100, 104, 108, 109, 110, 112, 116, 117–118, 122, 160, 166, 194

Çelebi, Evliya, 163

Çelebi, Kâtip, 163

Chagatai, 136, 143, 171, 172

Christianity, 12, 14, 15, 20, 24, 25, 27, 32, 34, 38, 44, 45, 48–50, 54, 60, 66, 67, 68, 71, 73, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 112, 127–133, 137, 142, 149, 151, 152, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 168, 178, 180, 187

Christian Reconquista, 127–128, 151, 178

Companions of the Prophet, 43, 49

Constantinople/Istanbul, 16, 27, 82, 142, 159, 163

Crusaders/Crusades, 15, 68, 120, 127–133

D

dan Fodio, Usman, 190

Dara Shikoh, 174

dhimmah, 14, 44, 67, 71, 74

al-Din, Hasan, 183

Ditch, Battle of the, 44, 45

Dome of the Rock, 67, 68

Druze, 102

E

Egypt, Islam in, 89, 100–102, 128, 146, 157, 158, 160, 195, 197–198, 204, 205

Egyptian Islamic Jihad, 205

Esfahan, 169, 170

Europeans, worldwide expansion and domination of, 156–157, 184, 185–186

F

al-Farabi, 103

al-Fasi, Muhammad ‘Allal, 196

Fatah, 206

Fatimah, 59, 99, 101

Fatimids, 15, 96, 99, 100–102, 103, 108, 109, 121, 123, 128, 130, 131, 133, 146

Ferdowsi, 114

fitnahs, 61–66, 67, 73–76, 87–92

Five Pillars of Islam, 12, 68–69

Fivers, 78

Franks, 120, 127–133

G

Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma), 174

Genghis Khan, 16, 133, 134–135, 136, 137, 144, 170

al-Ghazali, 123–126, 149

Ghazan, Mahmud, 139

Ghaznavids, 109, 114–117, 118, 121, 124, 137

Golden Horde, 136

H

Habsburgs, 161, 165, 169

Hadith, 12, 70, 85, 86, 88–89, 91, 92, 104, 105, 106, 110, 117, 150, 188, 190, 198

Hafsids, 152, 158

al-Hakim, 100–102

al-Hallaj, 104, 107–108

al-Hamadhani, 113

Hamas, 207

Hamdanids, 103, 108, 109

Hanbali, 105, 141

Harun al-Rashid, 80, 81, 82–83, 87, 124

Hezbollah, 207

Hijrah, 13, 20, 39, 56, 107

Hilalian invasion, 146

History of Prophets and Kings, 106–107

Holy League, 165

Hülegü, 136

al-Husayn, 14, 63, 167–168

Husayn I, 170

I

Ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Hasan II, Idris, 79

Ibn al-‘Arabi, 151, 153, 174, 182

Ibn al-Muqaffa‘, 84

Ibn al-Nafis, 140

Ibn Battutah, 153

Ibn Fadlan, 94

Ibn Hanbal, Ahmad, 88, 89, 110, 141

Ibn Hazm, 97

Ibn Hisham, 88

Ibn Ishaq, 75, 88

Ibn Khaldun, 154–155, 185

Ibn Khallikan, 140

Ibn Rushd (Averroës), 151

Ibn Sa‘ud, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz, 194

Ibn Sa‘ud, Muhammad, 189

Ibn Tashufin, Yusuf, 148–149

Ibn Taymiyyah, 140–141, 189, 190

Ibn Tufayl, 151

Ibn Tughluq, Muhammad, 139

Ibn Tumart, 149–151

Ibn Yasin, ‘Abd Allah, 148, 149, 150

Idrisids, 108, 178

Il-Khans, 136, 137

Imamis, 78, 166, 167

Imazighen, 96, 98, 133, 146–155

India, Islamic dynasties in, 115, 116, 117, 139, 143, 146, 157, 159, 172

Indian Ocean Islam, 158, 159, 181–183, 190

Indo-Timurids, 157, 169, 170–178

Internet, and Islam, 208, 210

Iqbal, Sir Muhammad, 192

Iran

Islam in, 73, 89, 113–117, 121, 143, 157, 158–159, 166–169, 186–187, 200–201, 202–204, 206

as Islamic republic, 169, 170, 203–204

Iranian Revolution, 17, 200–201, 202–204, 206

Iraq

cultural flowering in, 104–108

Islamic dynasties in, 73, 80, 89, 108–113, 121, 157, 158–159, 162

Iraq War (2003), 211

al-‘Isfahani, Abu ‘Isa, 65

Iskandar Muda, 181

Islam

activism and, 55, 56, 188, 189–190, 191

conflicts within, 60–66, 73–79, 80, 87–89, 93

contributions to world culture, 11–12, 14–15, 81–84, 97, 100, 103, 104–107, 114, 116–117, 140, 141–142, 169–170

division of, 14, 77–79, 157

founding/rise of, 11, 13, 36, 37, 38–48, 49

and globalization, 209–212

“modern” period of, 184–213

and a national culture, 193–196

and political centralization, 157

politicizing of, 193–194, 196, 198–199, 200–209

precursors of, 19–28

Renaissance of, 94

spread of, 11, 13, 14–16, 19, 52–54, 55–58, 60–61, 65–66, 69–72, 90, 94–95, 152–155, 157–159

and structure of premodern society, 110–113

and technology, 208

Islamist movements

dimensions of revivalism, 207–209

mainstreaming of, 205–207

since the 1960s, 200–205

Isma‘il, 78, 99

Isma‘il I, 166–167, 168

Isma‘ilis/Isma‘iliyyah, 78, 98, 100, 101, 102, 114, 123, 125, 128, 133, 136, 173

J

Jacobites, 173

Ja‘far al-Sadiq, 77–78

Ja‘far the Barmakid, 82, 83

Jahangir, 174, 176, 177

al-Jahiz, 84, 92

Jains, 173

Jama‘i-Sunnis, 77, 89, 99, 100, 107, 109, 110, 123, 141, 149, 167

Janissaries, 143, 172, 188

Jerusalem, 15, 40, 44, 58, 67, 128, 129, 131–132, 133, 149

Jesuits, 173

jihad, 55, 130, 148, 178, 180, 188, 189, 190, 191–192

John (János Zápolya), 161

Judaism, 12, 14, 15, 20, 24, 27, 32, 34, 38, 39, 44, 45, 48–50, 54, 65, 67, 68, 71, 73, 81, 86–87, 137, 152, 159, 173

al-Junayd, Abu al-Qasim, 108

K

Ka‘bah, 30, 34, 37, 38, 47

Kamil, Mustafa, 193

Karim Khan Zand, 187

Kemal, Mustafa (Atatürk), 197

Khadijah (Muhammad’s wife), 13, 35, 36, 39

Khalid, ‘Amr, 208

Kharijites, 64, 65, 73, 79, 89, 99

Khayr al-Din, 162

al-Khayzuran, 82

Khomeini, Ruhollah, 166, 201, 202–204, 208

al-Khwarizmi, 81–83

Kishk, Sheikh, 208

Knights of St. John, 161, 162

Köprülüs, 165

Kublai Khan, 136

al-Kurani, Ibrahim, 182

L

Liu Zhi, 182

M

madrasahs (medreses), 122–125, 163, 169

al-Maghili, 180

Maghrib, Islam in, 72, 89, 96–99, 146, 147, 151, 152, 153, 154, 157, 158, 160, 194–196

al-Mahdi, 82, 84, 173

Mahmud, 114–116, 117

Mahmud of Qandahar, 170

Majid, Nurcholis, 212

Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir, 170

Malik ibn Anas, 85

Malik-Shah, 122, 124–125

Mamluks, 101, 102, 133, 136, 139, 140, 141, 143, 152, 154, 158, 160

al-Ma’mum, 83, 87–88, 89

Manmati, 176

Mansu Musa, 152, 153

Marinids, 152, 158

Marwan, ‘Abd al-Malik ibn, 65, 67–68, 69

Marwanids, 67–69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 80, 84, 95, 122

Marxism, 200, 201

Mas‘ud I, 94, 117

al-Mawardi, 117–118

al-Mawdudi, Abu al-A‘la, 204

Mecca, 28, 29, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 55, 63, 79, 93, 100, 107, 174, 200

as birthplace of Muhammad, 12, 13

as centre of trade, 30, 34

and hajj, 30, 44, 47, 90, 99, 125, 148, 149, 153

and the Quaraysh, 30–32, 33–34, 44, 46–47, 59, 63

Medina (Yathrib), 13, 20, 28, 29, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 55, 58, 59, 93, 100, 125, 148

Muhammad’s emigration to, 39–44, 56, 75, 107

Mehmed I, 158

Mehmed II, 159

migration, periods of, 119–120, 154–155

militancy, 199

Mir Damad, 169–170

Mirza, ‘Umar Shaykh, 170

Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, 202, 203

Möngke, 136

Mongols, 15, 120, 133–145, 160, 166, 171

neo-Mongols, 120, 143, 159

Mu‘awiyah I, 14, 61, 63, 64–65

Mubarak, Hosni, 199, 206

Mughals (Indo-Timurids), 16, 146, 157, 169, 170–178

Muhammad, 50, 51, 53, 55, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 68, 70, 71, 74, 75, 77, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 101, 105, 106, 107, 110, 147, 150, 174, 178, 179, 190, 193, 194, 195, 212

death of, 47–48

life of, 13, 34–46

receives revelations, 11, 12, 13–14, 35–36, 37, 44, 57

and rise of Islam, 36–47, 49, 56, 59

Mullah Sadra, 169–170

Mumtaz Mahal, 176

Murad I, 142–143

Murad IV, 165

Musaylimah, 49

Muslim Brotherhood, 194, 197–199, 204, 205

Muslim Ibn al-Hajjaj, 92

Muslim World League, 200

Mustafa, 162

al-Mutanabbi, 103

al-Mu‘tasim, 87, 89

al-Mutawakkil, 89

Mu‘tazilah, 87–88, 89, 104–105, 109

N

Nadir Shah, 187

Naima, Mustafa, 163

Napoleon, 184, 188

al-Nasir, 133

Nasr al-Din, tales of, 177–178

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 198, 199, 204

nationalism, and Islam, 191, 193, 196, 197–198, 206, 208

New Persian, use of, 94, 113, 114, 115, 116, 140, 158

Nile-to-Oxus region, 23–25, 53, 70, 72, 73, 154, 173

Nizam al-Mulk, 122–123, 124–125

Nizar, 123, 128, 133

al-Nuqrashi, Mahmud Fahmi, 198

Nur al-Din (Nureddin), 130–133

Nur Jahan, 176

O

Oghuz Turks, 120–121, 142

Ögödei, 135

oil production, 17, 191, 200

Osman I, 142

Ottoman language, 163

Ottomans, 16, 102, 142–143, 156, 157, 158, 159–165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174–175, 178, 187–188, 193

end of the empire, 194, 197

and Westernization, 187–188, 191

P

Pan-Islamism, 188, 192, 193

patronage, importance of in premodern Islamic society, 111–112

Persian language, use of, 140, 158, 163, 169

Q

Qadiriyah, 126

al-Qaedam 210–211

Qajars, 187, 191

al-Qalqashandi, 140

Qaramitah, 98

Qur’an, 12, 43, 49, 59, 64, 67, 70, 71, 85, 86, 87, 88, 102, 104, 105–106, 107, 112, 117, 150, 151, 182, 189, 190, 198, 201, 208

Qur’an Commentary, 106

Quaraysh tribe, 30–32, 33, 38, 39, 40, 44, 46–47, 59, 60–61, 63

Qutb, Sayyid, 199, 204

R

Ramadan, 12, 44

Rashid al-Din, 139

Rashid Rida, Muhammad, 193–194, 195–196

al-Razi, Abu Bakr, 114

Richard I, 132

Roman Empire, 27, 28, 53, 58, 97

Rumfa, Muhammad, 180

Rumi, Jalal al-Din, 11, 141, 174

Rum Seljuqs, 141, 142

S

el-Sadat, Anwar, 200, 205

Sa‘dis, 178, 179

Safavids, 16, 157, 162, 165–170, 171, 173, 174–175, 187

Safi al-Din, Shaykh, 165–166

Saladin, 15, 101, 129, 131–132, 133

Salafiyyah movement, 192–193

salat, 46, 57, 75

Samanids, 109, 113–114, 116

Samarkand, 144, 145, 146, 171

Sanhajah confederation, 147–148

Sasanians, 20, 21, 25, 26–27, 53–54, 58, 67, 68, 69, 80, 106

Saudi regime, 189, 191, 197, 200, 206–207

Sayf al-Dawlah, 103

Sebüktigin, 114

Selim (son of Süleyman), 162

Selim I (father of Süleyman), 161, 162, 167

Selim III, 188

Seljuqs, 95, 109, 117, 118, 120–123, 124–127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 141, 160

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 11, 210–211

Seveners, 78

al-Shafi‘i, Abu ‘Abd Allah, 85–86, 140

Shah Jahan, 16, 174, 176–177

Shari‘ah, 85–87, 90, 107, 108, 111, 112, 126, 137, 139, 140, 141, 142, 149, 159, 160, 170, 174, 179, 180, 190, 197, 206, 207

Shari‘ati, ‘Ali, 201

Shi‘at ‘Ali, 14, 76

Shi‘ites, 14, 16, 76, 77–79, 80, 85, 89, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 108, 109, 110, 113, 114, 115, 117, 125, 131, 137, 141, 150, 157, 165–166, 167–168, 169–170, 173, 178, 179, 187, 191, 192, 202–203

Siffin, Battle of, 63, 64–65

Sinan, 163

Sirhindi, Shaykh Ahmad, 174

Six-Day War, 200

society, structure of premodern Islamic, 110–113

sub-Saharan Africa, Islam in, 98, 152–153

Sufis, 74, 90, 92, 107–108, 121, 125, 126, 127, 139, 140, 141, 142, 165, 166, 168, 173, 174, 178, 183, 188–189, 190

Süleyman I, 160–163, 172–173

Sunnah, 36, 38, 55, 67, 70, 77, 86, 88, 89, 90–91, 105, 189, 190, 208

Sunnis, 14, 77–79, 85–86, 89, 92, 99, 100, 101, 105, 107, 113, 115, 121, 123, 125, 131, 136, 137, 141, 149, 157, 165, 167, 187, 199

al-Suyuti, 180

Syria

Crusaders in, 128–129, 133

Islam in, 63, 73, 103, 121, 143, 157, 158, 160, 195

T

al-Tabari, 104, 105–107

Taha Husayn, 196

Tahmasp, 168

Taj Mahal, 11, 16, 174, 176

al-Tanukhi, 113

Tanzimat, 191

tariqah fellowships, 126–127, 141, 165, 166, 173, 188, 192

Tariq ibn Ziyad, 72

terrorism, 11, 210–211

Third Worldism, 200

Thousand and One Nights, The, 11, 82, 177

Timbuktu, 152, 158, 180–181

Timur (Tamerlane), 119, 143–146, 156, 158, 159, 167, 170, 171, 172

Timurids, 157, 159, 178

Toghrïl Beg, 121

trans-Saharan Islam, 157, 178–181

Tukulor, 189

Tulip Period, 187, 188

Turks, migration/power of, 120–127, 133–143, 158–159, 171

Twelvers, 78

U

‘Ubayd Allah, 99

Ulugh Beg, 145–146

‘Umar I, 51, 55, 56–57, 58, 59–60, 148

‘Umar II, 74

Umayyads, 15, 43, 52, 63–65, 69, 72, 73, 75, 80, 89, 95–97, 106

Usamah ibn Munqidh, 129

‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan, 57, 58–59, 60, 61, 63, 64

V

Vijayanagar, 159

W

Wadud, Amina, 212

al-Wahhab, Muhammad ibn ‘Abd, 189

Wahhabism, 141, 189

Wali Allah, Shah, 190

al-Walid, Khalid ibn, 49, 55

waqf, 111–112

women, and Islam, 85, 102, 150, 174, 177, 202, 203, 209, 212

World Wars, 191, 193, 196, 198, 209

Y

Yahya ibn Ibrahim, 147–148

Yahya the Barmakid, 82

Yazid I, 63, 167

Young Ottomans, 191

Young Turk Revolution, 193

Z

zakat, 43, 49

Zangi, 129–130

Zápolya, János (John), 161

Zaydiyyah/Zaydis, 78, 100

Ziri, 146

Zoroastrian-Mazdeism, 25, 27, 54, 71, 80, 173

al-Zubayr, ‘Abd Allah ibn, 63, 65