INDEX

AAZAZ, stratagem employed against it, 227.

Aban Ebn Saïd killed with a poisoned arrow, 131; courage of his wife, ib.

Abbas, the son of Sahel, circumvents Serjabil, 455.

Abdallah Ebn Hodafa taken prisoner, 242; released, 243.

Abdallah Ebn Jaafar attacks Dair Abi’l Kodas with five hundred men, 164; relieved by Kaled, 167; his progress in Africa, 273, note.

Abdallah, the son of Abbas, 291; made governor of Arabia Felix, 293; dissuadeth Hosein in vain from complying with the invitation of the Irakians, 396.

Abdallah, the son of Hazim, makes the messenger that brought a letter to bribe him, eat it, 475; story of his death, 476, note.

Abdallah, the son of Zobeir, refuseth to acknowledge Yezid’s title, 375; he declareth publicly against him at Medina, upon Hosein’s death, 421; is besieged in Mecca, 427; repents that he did not upon Yezid’s death go into Syria, 428; acknowledged caliph, 434; imprisons Mohammed Ben Hanifiyah in the Zemzem, 456; terrified by the Hoseinians at Mecca, 458; his grave speech to the people upon the occasion of his brother Musab’s death, 278; is besieged in Mecca by Hejaj, 476; courageous behaviour of his mother, 477; and himself, 478; his character, 479.

Abdalmelik proclaimed caliph, 453; kills Amrou, the son of Saïd, 465; uses his utmost application to gain the eastern part of the empire, 466; takes possession of Cufah, 470; his reflection upon the vicissitude of human affairs, 471; sends Hejaj against Abdallah, the son of Zobeir, 474; upon the death of Abdallah, the son of Zobeir, he becomes entire master of the whole Saracenic empire, 479; causes the first Arabic money to be stamped, 487; dies, 497; his nick-names, 498; his partiality for poets, 498, note; rewards a grammarian, 499, note.

Abdarrhaman, Abubeker’s son, takes Bostra, 101; kills the governor, 102.

Abdarrhaman, the son of Melgem, conspires against Ali, 326; his death, 329.

Abdarrhaman, the son of Kaled the Great, poisoned by Moawiyah’s order, 382.

Abdarrhaman raises a formidable power against Hejaj, 490; rather than fall into his hands, he kills himself by a fall from a house, 491.

Abubeker gives his daughter to Mohammed, 19; chosen caliph, or immediate successor of Mohammed, 82; Mohammed’s father-in-law, 83; why called Assidik, ib.; projects the conquest of Syria, 92; his directions to his generals, 94; dies, 138; his will, ib.; the first that collects the Koran into one volume, 139; his age and character, 140.

Abu Jyub is killed before Constantinople, 366; his tomb in great veneration, ib.

Abu Mogeirah, put to death by Ziyad, 371. Abu Midjan, his fondness for wine and drinking songs, 148, note.

Abu Musa, Alashtari, made one of the arbitrators between Ali and Moawiyah, 318; is outwitted by Amrou, 319.

Abu Obeidah Ebn Masud sent into Irakia, 142; his death, 143, and note.

Abu Obeidah Ebn Jerahh pulls the arrow heads from the mouth of Mohammed at the battle of Ohud, 37; made general of the Saracen army in Syria, 97; removed from that post, ib.; his gentle disposition, 134; his contest with Kaled about the surrender of Damascus, 136; made general of the forces in Syria, 163; besieges Hems, 172; takes Kinnisrin, 179; besieges Baalbec, 179; takes the city, 195; appoints Rafi governor, 187; takes Arrestan and Shaizar, 191; besieges Hems a second time, 189; its surrender, 194, sends a summons to Jerusalem, 204; takes Aleppo, 227; attempts Aazaz, ib. takes Antioch, 239; his death, 257.

Abu Sofian, mortal enemy to Mohammed, 17; loses the battle of Beder, 33; collects an army of three thousand men, 36; gains the battle of Ohud, 37; Amrou sent to assassinate him, 40; embraces Islamism, 53; his son Yezid appointed general of Abubeker’s force, 94; proved to be the father of Ziyad, 359.

Ajnadin, battle of, 118.

Al Ahnaf, his answer to Moawiyah, 377; anecdotes of, ib., note.

Alchemy studied by Kaled, the son of Yezid, 428.

Alcoran, see Koran.

Aleppians make articles for themselves with Abu Obeidah, 219.

Aleppo, the castle of, besieged, 218; taken by a stratagem of Dames, 225.

Alexandria besieged by the Saracens, 259 taken, 261; library of, 263; burned by order of Omar, 264; various opinions upon, ib. retaken by the Greeks, 274 taken again by the Saracens, 275.

Algazali, his interpretation of the Mohammedan faith, 72,

Alhadir, its surrender, 218.

Ali Akbar, Hosein’s eldest son, defends his father, 404; lays down his life for him, 407, note.

Ali, Hosein’s youngest son, answers Yezid from the Koran, 413.

Ali, son of Abu Taleb, becomes vizier to Mohammed, 15; marries Fatima, 19; overcomes Amrou, the son of Abdud, 41; candidate for caliphate, 82; is displeased at his disappointment, 83; prays at Mohammed’s tomb for Abdallah’s good journey, 197; persuades Omar to go to the siege of Jerusalem, 207; assists Othman in his troubles, 285; proclaimed caliph, 289; removes the governors, and lieutenants appointed by Othman, 291; pursues Ayesha, Telha, and Zobeir, 306; routs them, 309; discovers a well by the spirit of prophecy, 311; engages Moawiyah’s forces at Seffein, 312; challenges Moawiyah to single combat, 313, and note; he leaves his cause to arbitration, 319; defeats the Karegites, 322; deserted by his brother Okail, 326; killed by an assassin, 329; his family, 330; anecdotes of, 331; anecdotes from “Oriental Table-talk,” 336, note; sentences of, 337

Al Mogeirah, the son of Saïd, 291; brings Ziyad into Moawiyah’s interest, 359; his death, 366.

Al Mohalleb, Musab’s lieutenant over Persia, 461; bantered by the Separatists, 473; his death and character, 486.

Al Moktar makes his appearance at Cufah, pretending to revenge the death of Hosein, 446; imprisoned by Obeidollah, 443; is saluted caliph by a party, 454; destroys Hosein’s enemies, particularly Shamer, Amer, Caulah (or Haulah), and Adi, ib. endeavours to circumvent Abdallah, the son of Zobeir, 455; causes a throne to be carried into the battle, 459, 460, and note; defeated and killed by Musab, 462, and note.

Al Mothanna joined with Abu Obeidah Ebn Masud, and sent to Irak, 142, and note.

Amer, Ebn Refaa, turns Christian, 235.

Amer, the son of Saïd, marches against Hosein, 400; engages him, 406; tramples him into the ground, 410; killed by Al Moktar, 454.

Ammar Ebn Yafer, 280; one of the murderers of Othman, 285.

Ammar Ben Jasar, his death, 314, and note.

Amrou Ebn Al Aas, sent to assassinate Abu Sofian, 40; sent into Palestine, 96; story of, 207, note; sent to Egypt, 217; his conference with Constantine, 246; takes Cæ sarea, 253; invades Egypt, 255; takes Misrah (Cairo), 259; taken prisoner with his slave Werdan, 259; escapes, 260; Alexandria taken, 261; story of, ib. his letter to the caliph, 262, note; Alexandrian Library, 263; takes Tripolis in Barbary, 265; is deprived of his commission by Othman, 273; restored to it, 274; retakes Alexandria, 275; assists Moawiyah, 311; his humorous dialogue with Moawiyah, 315, note; is made one of the arbitrators between Ali and Moawiyah, 318; conspiracy against, 327; cajoles Abu Muse, 319; insulted by Arwah, the daughter of Hareth, 363; his death and character, 356, 357, and note.

Amrou, the son of Beker, undertakes to assassinate Amrou Ebn Al Aas, 326; kills Karijah instead, 327.

Amrou Ben Jarmuz, provoked by Ali, kills himself in a passion, 309.

Amrou, the son of Saïd, rebels against Abdalmelik, 463; killed, 465; his wife’s answer to Abdalmelik, 466.

Antioch, the seat of the Grecian emperor, 104; taken, 239.

Arabians, ancient, their religion, 3.

Arrestan taken, 191.

Arzemidocht, queen of the Persians, 144; deposed by her subjects, 145.

Ayesha marries Mohammed, 19; accused of adultery, 44 and note, her enmity to Othman, 282; goes in person against Ali, 296; defeated, 308; escorted by a retinue of women, 310, note; reproves Moawiyah for putting Hejer to death, 365; her death, 376; murdered by Moawiyah, ib. note; called prophetess and mother of the faithful, ib.

Azarakites, see Separatists.

Baalbec, formerly Heliopolis, is summoned to surrender by the Saracens, 179; capitulates, 185.

Bahira, a monk of Bostra, foretells Mohammed’s greatness, 9.

Barak, the son of Abdallah, conspires against Moawiyah, 326; stabs him, 327.

Basil, his account of Mohammed, 251; he betrays Tyre, 252.

Beder, battle of, 33; miracles there, 34; elegy on, 35.

Ben Arthah, one of Moawiyah’s generals, 325; his barbarous cruelty, and the vengeance that followed it, 326.

Bostra, a city of Syria Damascene, attacked by Serjabil, 97; betrayed to the Saracens, 102.

Cadesia, battle of, 147, note.

Cairo taken, 259.

Caliph, its signification, 79, note, 141.

Calous, one of Heraclius’s generals, 104 is taken prisoner by Kaled, 107; killed, 108.

Cæ sarea, surrendered to the Saracens, 253.

Caulah, Derar’s sister, taken prisoner by Peter, 114; her extraordinary courage, 115.

Constantine, the Emperor Heraclius’s son, 196; his conference with Amrou, 246.

Constantinople, besieged by Yezid, the son of Moawiyah, 365.

Copts, Egyptian Christians, 257; become tributaries, 259.

Cosroes, king of the Persians, 50.

Cufah, a famous city of Irak, 277, note; revolt at, 281, note.

Cufians, they assist Ali, 306; they invite Hosein to come and take the government upon him, 390.

Cyprus invaded by the Saracens, 275.

Dair Abi’l Kodas, fair at, 164; attacked by Abdallah Ebn Jaafar, 165; plundered by the Saracens, 168.

Damascus besieged by the Saracens, 103; inhabitants of Damascus sally out upon the Saracens, 113; inclining to surrender are hindered by Thomas, 129; surrender to Abu Obeidah, 135; leave Damascus, 150; are overtaken by the Saracens and murdered, 160.

Dames takes the castle of Aleppo by a stratagem, 225; is taken prisoner, 237; his strange escape, 238.

Derar Ebn Al Azwar beheads Malec Ebn Noweirah, 86; taken prisoner, 111; rescued, 112; recovers his sister Caulah from Peter, 117; destroys Werden’s ambuscade, 123; kills the prefect of Tripolis, 167; is put into a chest at Arrestan, 191; taken prisoner, 197; his contest with Serjabil, 202; is taken prisoner by Haim, 232; narrowly escapes death, 234.

Fatima, daughter of Mohammed, marries Ali, 19.

Fatimite caliphs in Egypt, 415.

Firuz assassinate Omar, 266.

Gabriel conducts Mohammed in his night-journey to heaven, 20.

Greeks make an incursion into Syria, 365.

Hafsa, one of Mohammed’s wives, Omar’s daughter, 195; entrusted with the authentic copy of the Koran, 102.

Hakem obeys the text of the Koran in opposition to Ziyad’s command, 361; his remarkable death, ib.

Hamza, Mohammed’s uncle, killed at the battle of Ohud, 37.

Hani, a favourer of Hosein, 392; beheaded, 396.

Harmozan, story of, 215, note.

Haroot and Maroot, fable of, 50.

Harro meets with Hosein and intercepts him, 398; he repents, and joins him, 405.

Hasan, eldest son of Ali, taxeth his father’s conduct, 390; succeeds his father, 346; resigns to Moawiyah, 348; his character, 349, &c.; death, 350 and note; anecdotes of, 352, &c.

Haula carries Hosein’s head to Obeidollah, 410; is killed by Al Moktar, 454.

Hejaj, the son of Joseph, an eloquent and warlike captain, sent against Abdallah the son of Zobeir, 474; besieges him in Mecca, 476, 477; pulls down the temple of Mecca and rebuilds it, 480; his cruelty, 481; he builds Wasset, 492; anecdotes of his character, &c., 492; his death, 497.

Hejer, his character and behaviour, 363; offends Hejej, 363; his death, 365.

Hems makes a truce with the Saracens, 173; besieged, 189; surrendered, 194; sends 5000 men to defend Damascus, 104.

Henda, her barbarity to the body of Hamza after the battle of Ohud, 38.

Heraclius, Emperor, 79; sends an army to check the Saracens, 95; sends 5000 men under Calous to relieve Damascus, 104; sends Werdan with 100,000 men, 109; sends another large army under Mahan, 194; his wardrobe at Damascus, 150; reported by the Saracens to have died a Mohammedan, 239.

Herbis, a Christian officer at Damascus, 137; leaves Damascus, 150; killed, 159.

Herbis, governor of Baalbec, rejects Abu Obeidah’s summons with scorn, 180; behaves himself bravely, 181; is besieged in a monastery, 184; makes articles for Baalbec, and is dismissed 186; killed by his own men, 188.

Hirah, a city of Irak, taken by Kaled, 97.

Hosein, Ali’s second son, 330; refuseth to acknowledge Yezid’s title, 387; invited by the Cufians, 390; and complies, 396; intercepted by Harro, 398; engaged by Shamer and Amer, 409; his death, 408, 409, and note; trampled into the ground, 410; a light streams up over his head all the night, and white birds hover over it, ib. his head set up in Cufah, 412; traditions concerning it, 415, and note; his tomb, ib.; worketh a miracle, 416; his titles, ib.; devotions and pilgrimages, ib.; his answer to his father Ali concerning the divine love, 417; superstitious observation of the day of his death, ib. and note; fables concerning him, 418; lamentation of the penitents at his tomb, 450, Hosein besieges Mecca, 427.

Hoseinians, (that is the partisans of Hosein go to Mecca and terrify Abdallah the son of Zobeir, 456.

Ibrahim, the son of Alashtar, his fidelity to Musab, 467.

Irak, called Babylonia by Ptolemy, is first invaded by Kaled, 97.

Irakians, influenced by Abdalmelik, betray Musab the son of Zobeir, 468; they rebel against Hejaj, and are beaten, 481.

Izrail, governor of Damascus, 107; is taken prisoner by Kaled, and killed, 108. Jabalah Ebn Al Ayham offends Omar, 171; sent to assist the governor of Kinnisrin, 178; joins Mahan, the emperor’s general, 195; is beaten by Kaled, 197; suggests the assassination of Omar, 237; last king of the Christian Arabs, dies, 372. Jaloulah, battle of 215, and note.

Jerusalem besieged by the Saracens, 207; surrendered to Omar, 211.

Jews, their treaty with Mohammed, 35; bewitched Mohammed, 49.

John, Youkinna’s brother, 218; killed by Youkinna, 221.

John the grammarian, 263; is excommunicated, ib.

John, the son of Saïd, attempts to rescue his brother Amrou, 465; his bold answer to Abdalmelik, 470.

Jonas, a Christian nobleman of Damascus, 152; is taken prisoner by the Saracens, and turns Mohammedan, 153; instigates Kaled to pursue the Damascenes, 154; loses his wife, 157; is shot at Yermouk, 160; seen in a vision by Rafi Ebn Omeirah, ib.

Jowab, Ayesha is frightened at the barking of the dogs there, 296.

Kaab, son of Zohair, becomes a Mohammedan, 57.

Kaab, a Jew, assassinated by Mohammed, 36; a Jew of the same name converted by Omar, 216.

Kaaba, temple of, 3.

Kadija, wife of Mohammed, 8; death of, 17, 82; tomb of, 17, note.

Kais Ebn Amer examined by the emperor concerning the Mohammedan religion, 234.

Kairwan built, 366.

Kaisians, why so called, 435; they are beaten, 436.

Kinnisrin taken by the Saracens, 179.

Kaled; Ebn Al Walid leads the right wing of the idolaters in the battle of Ohud, 37; slaughter of the Meccans, 53; his cruelty, 55; subdues the rebellious Arabs, 85; marries the wife of Malec, 80, note; surnamed “The Sword of God,” 87; routs Moseilama the false prophet, 88; invades Irak; 92; recalled, and made general of the forces in Syria, 97; takes Bostra, 102; beheads Calous and Israil, 108; beats the Christians at Ajnadin, 118; conference with Werdan, 122; returns to Damascus, 128; contends with Abu Obeidah, 136; pursues the Damascenes, 154; overtakes and destroys them, 157; deposed by Omar, 163; relieves Abdallah at Dair Abi’l Kodas, 167; intercepts the governor of Kinnisrin, 178; beats Jabalah Ebn Al Ayham, 197; his conference with Mahan, 200; commands the Saracen army at the battle of Yermouk, 201; relieves the Aleppians, 222; subdues the country as far as Euphrates, 241; his death, 255; story of public ingratitude towards him, 255, note.

Kaled, the son of Asid, a manager for Abdalmelik in Bassorah, 466.

Kaled, the son of Yezid, skilled in alchemy, 428; he abuseth Merwan the son of Hakem, 452.

Koran, account of, 64; first collected into one volume, 139.

Koreish, or Koreishites, a noble tribe among the Arabs, persecute the followers of Mohammed, 16; determine to assassinate the prophet, 30.

Lebid, story of, 11, note.

Leon, Theodorus, his son, releases Youkinna, 230.

Luke, governor of Al Hadir and Kinnisrin, 174.

Luke, Theodorus’s son, murders his father, 230.

Madayen, a city of Persia, plundered by the Saracens, 215.

Magic, believed by the Mussulmans, 49; note.

Mahan, general of the emperor’s forces in Syria, 194; his conference with Kaled, 199; defeated at the battle of Yermouk. 201; his injustice, 203; he is killed at Damascus, 204.

Mahran, general of the Persians, 144; killed, 145.

Malec Alashtar, 228; rebels against Othman, 281, and note; cuts off the legs of Ayesha’s camels, 309, note; obtains water for the troops at Seffein, 312, note; poisoned, 323.

Malec Ebn Noweirah, refusing to pay the Zacat, is killed by Kaled’s order, 86, and note; his beautiful wife, ib.

Manuel, re-takes Alexandria, 254; being beaten, he flees to Constantinople, 275.

Mary, the Coptic girl, beloved by Mohammed, 51.

Mecca, the birth-place of Mohammed, 5, 30; 80; slaughter thereby Kaled, 53.

Mecca besieged by Hosein, 427; the siege raised upon the news of the death of Yezid, ib., and note; the temple battered by the Syrians, 476.

Medina taken by Meslem, 426.

Medina, the place of Mohammed’s burial, 1, 30, 80; besieged by the Meccans.

Meisarah Ebn Mesrouk, invades the mountainous part of Syria, 241.

Meisun, the Bedonian wife of Moawiyah, 428; translation from her poetry, ib. note.

Merwan Ebn Al Hakem, Othman’s secretary, 282, and note; kills Telha, 308; is made governor of Medina, 372; proclaimed caliph at Damascus, 435; married Yezid’s widow, 436; she stifles him, 452; called Ebn Tarid, and why, ib.

Meslem sent by Yezid to besiege Medina, 425; enters the city, 426; his death, 427.

Miracles of Mohammed, 66, note.

Misrah, formerly Memphis, now Cairo, 256; taken by the Saracens, 259.

Moawiyah invades Cyprus, 275; Othman’s lieutenant in Syria, 289; his opposition and messages to Ali, 294, 295, and note; encounters Ali at Seffein, 314; challenged by Ali to single combat, 315; his humourous dialogue with Amrou, ib. note; leaves his cause to arbitration, 319, poisons Malec Alashtar, 323; wounded by an assassin, 327; obligeth Hasan to abdicate, 348; proclaimed caliph, 354; owns Ziyad to be his brother, 359; puts Hejer to death, 365; sent his son Yezid to besiege Constantinople, ib.; designs to remove Mohammed’s pulpit from Medina, 367; his perfidious dealing between Saïd the governor of Medina, and Merwan the son of Hakem, 372; makes the caliphate hereditary, 374; establishes his son Yezid in the succession, ib. murders Ayesha, 375 note; his last speech, 378; and character, 379; objections made against him by Hasan the Bassorian, 380; anecdotes of, 381, &c. his patronage of letters ib. note; the first caliph who formed a navy, 383, note; Paradise of Sheddad the son of Ad, 384.

Moawiyah II, proclaimed caliph, 430; resigns the government, 431; dies, ib. Mohammedan faith, 67; practice, 70; illustration of their creed, 71.

Mohammed, birth of, 5; traditions of his childhood, 7; marries Kadija, 8; writes the Koran, 10; his poetry, 11; commencement of his mission, ib. his first proselytes, 13; persecuted, 16; his affection for Kadijah, 17; chief points of his religion, 18; marries Ayesha, 19; Hafsa, and Sawda, 19; story of his ascent to heaven, 20; traditions connected with it, 26; flight to Medina, 31; commences preaching warfare, 32; changes the Kebla and appoints the fast Ramadan, 32; gains a victory at Bader, 33; defeated at Ohud, 37; repeats prayers over the slain, 38; sends Amrou to assassinate Abu Sofian, 40; prohibits wine and games at chance, 40, and note; falls in love with Zainab and marries her, 43; his wife Ayesha accused of adultery, 44; his pilgrimage to the Kaaba, at Mecca, 45, 53; nearly poisoned at Khaibar, 49; bewitched by the Jews, ib. debauches his slave Mary, 51; sends Kaled to destroy idols, 55; his respect to his nurse, 56; besieges Taïf, 56; marches to Syria, 57; his farewell pilgrimage with 100,000 people to Mecca, 58; his death, 61; his character and personal appearance, 62; anecdotes of his wives, 63, note; his miracles, 66, note, 233; his tomb reverenced by the Mohammedans, 198, 208; invoked by his followers, 219; what account he gave of his inspiration, 232; his prophecy concerning the duration of the caliphate, 352; his fondness for Hasan and Hosein, 357; his character of Amrou Ebn Al Aas, 356; his decision in the case of fornication, 359; his indulgence to the army that should take Constantinople, 365; his walking stick and pulpit, 367; his sentence upon him that should injure Medina, 429.

Mohammed, son of Abubeker, made lieutenant of Egypt, 323; his death, ib. Mohammed, the son of Hanaflyah, chief of Ali’s family, 440; his piety, 456; he and his friends are seized by Abdallah the son of Zobeir, and imprisoned in the Zemzem, 456; dies, 490.

Mokaukas, lieutenant of Misrah, 256; his perfidy, 257.

Money, when first coined amongst the Arabians, 487.

Motazeli, a sect amongst the Arabians; whence denominated, 292.

Moseilama the prophet, opposed to Mohammed, 88; his connection with Sejaj, 89, note; his death, ib. Mothanna, sent into Irak, 142, and note; kills the Persian general, 145.

Musab, brother to Abdallah, the son of Zobeir, is routed, 436; made governor of Bassorah, 400; marches against Al Moktar, 461; he irritates the Bassorians, 467; killed, 468; his head taken to Abdalmelik; 471.

Muslim, Hosein’s cousin, goes to Irak, to make interest for him, 390; conspires to assasinate Obeidollah, 393; attacks the castle of Cufah, ib., is deserted, 394; taken and killed, 396.

Nestorius, a Christian general, takes Dames prisoner, 237.

Nooman, the son of Bashir, his speech, sent by Yezid to compose the tumults at Medina, 424.

Obeidollah, (the son of Ziyad, made lieutenant of Khorassan, 373; and of Cufah, 391; treats Hosein’s head contumeliously, 410; is forced to retire into Syria, 432 imprisons Al Moktar, 443; cuts Solyman and his penitents to pieces, 451; marches against Cufah, 458; is beaten and killed, 459, and note.

Obud, battle of, 37.

Okail, Ali’s brother, deserts to Moawiyah, 326, and note.

Okbah, punishes the revolters from Mohammedanism, 366; his conquests, ib. note.

Omar, his first conversion to Islamism, 15; candidate for the caliphate after Mohammed’s decease, 80; swears to Abubeker, 81; compels Ali to do the same, 83; says prayers publicly during Abubeker’s sickness, 138; appointed caliph by Abubeker’s will, ib. inaugurated, 141; sends forces into Irak, 142; deposes Kaled, 161; writes to Abu Obeidah about Jabalah Ebn Al Ayham, 171; rebukes Abu Obeidah for not fighting, 177; travels to Jerusalem, 208; his execution of justice, 208; punishes a man for having two sisters as wives, 209; relieves some poor tributaries, 210; reproves two men for having one wife between them, 210; preaches to the camp, 211; articles of agreement with the Jerusalemites, ibid; enters the city, 213; builds a temple where Solomon’s stood, 214; returns to Medina from Jerusalem, 217; his wonderful deliverance, 237; his letter to the emperor, 243; he accepts of Tuleiha’s repentance, 250; his opinion of all other books except the Koran, 264; is assassinated, 266; his character, ib. story of, 268, note; his wives, 270, note.

Opheirah, a woman of great courage, 115. Othman, Ebn Affan, his quarrel with Kaled, 86, note; dissuades Omar from going to Jerusalem, 207; chosen caliph by six commissioners, 271; takes away Amrou’s commission, 273; the murmurs of the Saracens against him, 278, &c. causes of the disaffection, 279, note; besieged in his palace, 284, and 285, note; his death and character, ib., his bloody shirt carried by the Separatists, 283.

Othman, the son of Hanif, taken prisoner by Ayesha, 299; loses his beard, 304.

Paul, a Christian officer at Damascus, 113; killed, 118.

Persians, assertors of the right of Ali, 82; conquered Syria and Egypt, 90; defeated by the Arabians, 150, 215, and notes; their date or era, 150; totally subdued by the Saracens, 329.

Peter, a Christian officer at Damascus, 113; takes Caulah prisoner, 114; killed, 117.

Plague in Syria, 255.

Pulpit of Mohammed, reverenced by his followers, 367; the sun eclipsed upon Moawiyah’s attempt to remove it, ibid. Rafi, Ebn Abdallab, is made lieutenant of Baalbec, 187.

Rafi, Ebn Omeirah, 110; takes the emperor’s daughter prisoner, 157; his vision of Jonas, 160; is taken prisoner, 197.

Refaa, bewails his son’s turning Christian, 235.

Romanus, governor of Bostra, his mock combat with Kaled, 99; betrays Bostra to the Saracens, 103.

Rustam, general of the Persians, 146; his death, 147 and note.

Saïd, the son of Hobans, story of, 491.

Saïd, Othman’s grandson, made lieutenant of Khorassan; goes to Samarcand, 374.

Saïd, Ebn Kaled, created general by Abubeker, but patiently resigns his commission, 96.

Saïd, Ebn Abi Wakkas, gains the battle of Cadesia, 147; takes Madayen, 215; removed from his prefecture; 279.

Saïd, Ebn Amir, captain of the recruits sent by Omar, before the battle at Yermouk, 198; beats the prefect of Amman, ???

Salehh, a Karegite, joined with Shebib, 481; his sermon, 482; is killed, 486.

Salem, the son of Ziyad, invades the Turks in Sogd, 420; chosen governor of Khorassan, 436; how well beloved, 437.

Samrah, Ziyad’s lieutenant over Bassorah, 370; he curseth Moawiyah, 373.

Seffein, skirmishes there, between Ali and Moawiyah, 314, 315, and notes.

Sejaj, the prophetess, her connexion with Moseilama, 89, note.

Sentences of Ali, 337.

Separatists carry Othman’s bloody shirt into Syria, 293; revolt against Ali, 320; they desert Abdallah the son of Zobeir, 441; are beaten from Basorah, 443; sworn enemies to all established government, 463; their cruelty, ib. banter Al Mohalleb, upon the subject of the oath of allegiance, 473; rise against Hejaj, 481.

Serjabil Ebn Hasanah (formerly Mohammed’s secretary), attacks Bostra, 97; engages with Thomas, 134; his death, 255.

Shaddad, Ebn Al Aus, proclaimed at Damascus, as Omar’s representative, 163.

Shaizar taken by the Saracens, 191,

Shamer begins the battle with Hosein, 406; he is killed by Al Moktar, 454.

Shebib, a Karegite, opposes Hejaj, 481; his death, 488; his mother’s dream concerning him, 489.

Sheddad, the son of Ad, paradise of, 384, n.

Shiites, the sect of Ali, 334 and note.

Sogd, conquered by the Mohammedans, 374.

Sohail, Ebn Sabah, by a breach of discipline

preserves the Saracen army, 182.

Solyman, the son of Sorad, headeth a party of the sectaries of Ali, 437; his circular letter, 438; he sets out against Obeidollah, 448; his lamentation at Hosein’s tomb, 450; is killed, 451.

Sounites, those Mohammedans that follow the tradition, 334 and note.

Spies, Christian, discovered in the Saracen army, 223, 228.

Swine’s flesh forbidden in the Koran, 207.

Syria, story of the war, 253, note.

Taïf, siege of, 56.

Tarchan, a Turk, defeats Yazdejerd, 276.

Theodorus, governor of the castle of Aazaz, 227; takes Youkinna prisoner, 228; killed by his own son, 230.

Thomas, son-in-law of Heraclius, dissuades the Damascenes from surrendering, 129; engaging with the Saracens, is wounded by Aban’s wife, 131; leaves Damascus, 150; is killed, 157; his wife, the daughter of Heraclius, taken prisoner, ib.; presented to Jonas, 158.

Tripoli, a town in Syria, surprised by Youkinna s treachery, 250.

Tripoli in Barbary, taken by the Saracens, 265.

Tuleihha. Ebn Khoweiled, the false prophet, 87; is received into favour by the Saracens, 249.

Tyre taken by the Saracens, 252.

Ubeid Allah Ebn Kais, story of, 469, note.

War, Saracenic laws of, 94, note.

Waset, built by Hejaj, 492.

Werdan, a general sent by Heraclius to relieve Damascus, 109; his ambuscade to take Kaled, 122; proffer; the Saracens vests and money to cease their hostilities, but is rejected, 121; endeavours to circumvent Kaled, 122; his death, 123.

Werdan, Amrou’s slave, 259.

Wine forbidden in the Koran, and the drinking of it punished, 40; and note, 169.

Women take arms, and defend themselves against the Greeks, 115; restore the battle at Yermouk, 201; wickedness of, 13, note; beautiful and black-eyed, expected in paradise, 160.

Yali plunders the treasury, 293.

Yazdejerd, elected king of Persia, 145; his conference with three Arab chiefs, 146, note; loses the battle of Cadesia, 150; he retires to Ferganah, 215; his death, 277; and note.

Yermouk, battle of, 201.

Yezid, Ebn Abu Sofian, made general of the Saracen army in Syria, 94; is taken prisoner, 107; sent to besiege Jerusalem, 204; sent to Palestine, 217; death, 255.

Yezid; the son of Moawiyah, goes to besiege Constantinople, 365; he is owned his father’s successor by the provinces, 377; succeeds him, 387; bewaileth the death of Hosein, and entertaineth the women courteously, 411; sends a silver collar to put about Abdallah, the son of Zobeir’s neck, 421; the ambassadors from Medina give him a bad character, 423; he sends an army to besiege Medina, 425; dies, 427; his character, 428, &c.; opinion of the Mohammedan doctors, 429.

Youkinna, governor of the castle of Aleppo, 218; engages Kaab Ebn Damarah, ib.; persecutes the Aleppians, 221; kills his brother John, ib.; turns Mohammedan, 227; is taken prisoner by Theodorus, his cousin, 228; released by Leon., 230; goes to Antioch, 231; surprises Tripoli, 250; sails to Tyre, 251; takes the city, 262.

Zaid, Mohammed’s slave, and second disciple, 14, 82; divorces his wife to gratify Mohammed, 43.

Zainab, marries Mohammed, 43.

Zaid, Ebn Waheb, a messenger from Omar’s army, 249.

Zeinab, Ali’s sister, confronts Obeidollah, 411; and Yezid, 413; she, at the request of her sister Fatima, presents their guide with both their jewels, 414.

Zemzem, sacred well of: 4 and note, 457.

Ziyad, the son of Somyah, made lieutenant of Basorah, 324; his justice, ib.; is owned by Moawiyah for his brother, 358; his exemplary severity, 360; his lieutenancies, ib.; affronted by Hejer, 363; sends him to Moawiyah, who puts him to death, 365; dies of the plague, 368; anecdotes of 369, &c.

Zobeir (or Azzobeir), Ali’s enemy, 268; is killed, 309.