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INDEX
Navas de Tolosa, Las, 166
Nearchus, 6
Nebuchadnezzar, 11
Neo-platonism, 111
Nestorius/Nestorians, 12, 19,
43, 176, 179, 188, 191, 193,
200
Neustria, 92
Nicaea, 150; Council of, 12, 19
Nicephorus I, Emperor, 114
Nicephorus Phocas, 133
Niger, 121
Nihavand (Nihavand), 56, 59
Nimes, 91
nirvana, 18
Nishapur (Nishapur), 118, 145f,
174, 177
Nizam al-Mulk (Ni?am al-Mulk),
150, 151
Nizamiya Madrasa (Ni?amiya
Madrasa), 151
Nizar (Nizar), 159
Nizaris (Nizaris), 161
nobles, battle of the, 98
nomadism, 3
Normans, 148f, 150, 155, 158
Nubia/Nubians, 164, 165, 171
Nufud, 1
numerals, Arabic, 189f
Nuraddin (Nur al-Din), 162f
164, 165, 166
Odenathus, 8
odes, seven golden, 15
Ogedai Khan, 178
Oghuz, 145, 171, 174
Okba b.Nafi (‘U?ba b.Nafi‘), 69,
85
Old Man of the Mountain, 167
olive, 83
Oman (‘Uman), 1, 2, 32
Omar b.al-Khattab (‘Umar b. al-
Kha??ab), 24, 34, 44f, 47ff,
57, 59, 61, 89, 102, 158
Omar II (‘Umar II), 91, 97
Omar b.Sa‘d (‘Umar b.Sa‘d), 71
Omar Khayyam (‘Umar Khayyam),
193
Omayyads (Umayyads/Omayya
house, 24, 32, 45, 59, 61, 64,
66, 72, 77, 80ff, 95ff, 133
Omri, 103
Ong-Khan, see Wang-Khan
ophthalmology, 193
Orosius, 194
Orthodox Church, 110, 191
Othman b.Affan (‘Uthman b.
‘Affan), 24, 49, 57, 59ff, 64ff,
75, 125
Oxus, river, 56, 61, 68, 88, 142,
145, 148, 155, 171, 177
Pakistan, 89, 202
Palermo, 155
Palestine, 43, 44, 45, 150, 158
Palmyra, 8, 9, 99
Papak, 113
paper, 189
Pechenegs, 148, 149
Peking, 177
Pelusium, 161
Penitents, Army of, 73
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, 8
Persia/Persians, 6, 8f, 12, 32f, 42,
53ff, 60, 96, 100, 103f, 107,
116f, 122, 146, 170, 174f,
192f, 201ff; see also Sassanids
Persian Gulf, 1, 2, 6
Persian language, 196
Petra, 7ff
Philip the Arab, Emperor, 12
Philip II of France, 165
philosophy, 194, 197
Phoenicians, 83
pilgrimage, see hajj
pilgrims, Christian, 81, 115, 158,
165
pillars, five, of Islam, 35f
Pirenne, Mlle. J., 5n
Pisa, 136, 155
Plato, 198
Poitiers, 92, 115