For Lust of Knowing (66 page)

Tibawi on,
323

Guénon, René,
315–
16

Guibert of Nogent,
37

Haarmann, Ulrich,
274

Hadiths,
70
,
184
,
194–
5,
249
,
325

Hafiz of Shiraz,
151
,
235
,
274

Hagarenes,
20
,
22

Hagarism
(Cook and Crone),
270

Haggard, Rider,
213

Hakluyt, Richard,
62

Hall, Edith,
5

al-Hallaj,
221–
4,
226

Halle university,
179

Halm, Heinz,
274

Hamilton, Alastair,
105

Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Freiherr von,
111
,
150–
52,
155
,
172
,
236
,
287

conspiracy theory,
145
,
151–
2

Handbook of Diplomatic and Politic Arabic, A
(Lewis),
259

Hardy, Thomas,
159

al-Hariri,
64
,
128
,
143

Harvard University,
279

Middle East Centre,
243

Hasan of Basra,
235

Haskins, Charles Homer,
32

Hastings, Warren,
160

Hayter, Sir William,
265

Hayter Report (1961),
265

Hayy ibn Yaqzan
(Ibn Tufayl),
119
,
302

Heart of Darkness
(Conrad),
280

Hebrew language

Arabic, usefulness in,
102
,
131

Arabictransliterations,
84

magical properties,
58

Old Testament,
90

as primal language,
66–
7,
76
,
106
,
127

study,
141

Hebrews

early society,
184
,
193

polytheism,
186
,
193

Hedayat, Sadeq,
312

Hegel, G. W. F.,
253

hegemony,
3
,
289–
90

Henty, G. A.,
213

Heraclius, Emperor of Rome,
22

Herbelot, Barthélémy d',
114
,
115
,
116
,
120
,
285

Herbst, Johann,
71

Herder, Johann Gottfried,
198
,
253

Hermann of Carinthia,
26
,
27
,
28

Hermes Trismegistus,
59
,
79–
80,
107
,
108

Hermetic writings,
59–
60,
79–
80

Herodotus of Halicarnassus,
12–
14,
16
,
171
,
209

Herzfeld, Ernst,
215
,
218
,
248

Heyworth-Dunne, J.,
219

Himmler, Heinrich,
234

Hindu law, codification,
160

Hippocrates,
17
,
32

Hisab al-Jahr wa almuqabala,
28

Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne
(Dozy),
175

Histoire des sultans mamlouks de l'é gypte
(Quatremère),
148
,
174
,
176

Histoire générale et système comparé des langues sémitique
(Renan),
167
,
295

Historia compendiosa dynastiarum
(Pococke),
96

Historia religionis veterum Persarum
(Hyde),
99

Historia Saracenica
(Erpenius),
103

History and Description of Africa and the Notable Things Therein Contained
(Africanus),
64–
5

History
(Bede),
21

History
(Herodotus),
12–
14

History of British India
(Mill),
160–
61

History of English Poetry
(Warton),
5

History of the Arab Peoples, A
(Hourani),
196
,
252–
3

History of the Arabs, A
(Hitti),
245

History of the Saracens
(Ockley),
119
,
120

Hitler, Adolf,
170
,
199
,
249

Hitti, Philip,
245
,
252

Hodgson, Marshall,
150
,
250–
51,
253
,
291

Hogarth, William,
112

Holt, P. M.,
120

Holy Land, pilgrimage to,
62

Homer,
10
,
210
,
285

Homer of Aristotle, The
(Margoliouth),
210

Hourani, Albert,
185
,
196
,
240
,
250
,
251–
4,
264
,
265
,
273
,
322

influences on,
150
,
253

Hourani, George,
292

Housman, A. E.,
77
,
243

Houtsma, Martin Theodor,
190

Hughes, Thomas,
159

humanism,
54
,
56

Humphreys, R. Stephen,
190
,
223
,
270

Hungary, anti-Semitism,
193

Huntingdon, Samuel,
262

Huntington, Robert,
93

Hurgronje, Christian Snouck,
196
,
199–
201,
309

Husayn, Taha,
211–
12,
318

al-Hussaini, Hajj Amin, Mufti of Jerusalem,
228

Hussein, Saddam,
307
,
308

Hussites,
58

Huysmans, Joris-Karl,
220
,
224

Hyde, Thomas,
96
,
99–
101,
206

Iamblichus,
18

Ibn'Abdun,
26
,
40

Ibn al-'Arabi,
223

Ibn al-Athir,
216

Ibn al-Farid,
151

ibn al-Hajjaj, Muslim,
319

Ibn al-Jawzi,
211

Ibn al-Muqaffa,
143

Ibn al-Nadim,
156

Ibn al-Raqiq al-Qayrawani,
65

Ibn Arabshah,
103
,
128
,
143

Ibn Bajja,
59

Ibn Battuta,
237

Ibn Hajar,
312

Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen),
28–
9

Ibn Hayyan, Jabir,
see
Jabir ibn Hayyan

Ibn Hazm,
40

Ibn Hisham,
20

Ibn Jubayr,
179

Ibn Khaldun,
64
,
65
,
207–
8,
248
,
329

influence,
149–
50,
187
,
241–
2,
251
,
253

Ibn Khallikan,
103

Ibn Nubata,
37

Ibn Qutayba,
234

Ibn Rushd,
see
Averroes

Ibn Sina,
see
Avicenna

Ibn Taymiyya,
40

Ibn Tufayl,
97
,
118

Ibrahim ibn Yaqub,
40

I Ching,
129

identity, Western,
291

Ideologie arabe contemporaine, L'
(Laroui),
322

al-Idrisi,
65
,
75

Iliad
(Homer),
10
,
154
,
210

Illuminists,
151
,
152

imperialism

Dutch,
229

French,
227–
8,
229

Orientalism and,
147
,
204
,
229

Said on,
286

Imperial Oriental Institute, St Petersburg,
229

Impostures intellectuelles
(Sokal & Bricmont),
288
,
289

Improbatio alchorani
(Ricoldo da Monte Croce),
39
,
72

Improvement of Human Reason…
(Ockley tr.),
119

India

British Raj,
112–
13,
159–
60,
212
,
296

Mughal Empire,
60

‘Orientalist,' use,
160

Orientalists in,
160–
61,
162

studies, German domination,
156

Indo-Aryan cultures, superiority,
156

Indo-Aryan languages,
124
,
148
,
315

Said and,
293

Inquisition,
68

Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy
(Hall),
5

Iqbal, Muhammad,
274

Iran, westernization,
312–
13

Isaac, Massignon on,
226

Isabella I, queen of Castile,
61

Ishmael, Massignon on,
226

Islam

as Arianist variant,
20
,
23
,
36

Christian attacks on,
23–
4,
25
,
27
,
71
,
86
,
201–
2

Christian knowledge of,
38–
9

Christians convert to,
60

compatibility with Christianity,
57

constitutional government,
192

cyclical rise and decline,
253

decline, 9th-century,
250

as divine revelation,
26
,
310
,
316
,
318
,
321
,
327–
8

early history,
187
,
195

evolution,
195
,
269

as expression of Semiticspirit,
172

Hellenisticorigins,
198
,
203
,
235

history, historical method in,
187

Jewish influence,
329

law,
160
,
195

medieval European studies,
53

medieval libels,
38

mystical tradition,
223

as ‘Other,'
156

Protestants and,
80
,
86

Renan on,
168–
9

rise

7th century,
17
,
19

17th century,
86

Said on,
294

schematization,
285–
6

schism in,
195

seen as heresy,
20
,
22
,
291

as sensual cult,
21
,
23

society,
184
,
199
,
242

socio-economic background,
202

South-East Asian version,
200

territorial expansion,
60

as Unitarianism,
291

as urban religion,
227

Islam, Der
(review),
196

Islam and Capitalism
(Rodinson),
256

Islam and Orientalism
(Jameelah),
318

Islam Ansiklopedisi,
240

Islam at the Crossroads
(Asad),
314

Islam et la Croisade, L'
(Sivan),
272

Islamic city,
227

distinctive nature,
215
,
216
,
294

Islamic civilization, mimeticism,
246

Islamicculture

decline, Crusades and,
37

Grunebaum on,
323

heir to Hellenisticculture,
203

visual vocabulary,
247–
8

Islamic Culture,
periodical,
296

Islam in Modern History
(Cantwell Smith),
318

Islamisme et la Science, L'
(Renan),
168–
9

Islam Versus the West
(Jameelah),
318

al-Islam wa al-Hadara al-‘Arabiyya
(‘Ali),
311

Isma‘il, Safavid Shah,
217

Isma‘ilism,
68
,
145
,
195
,
227
,
259

Israel

Egypt, war with,
281

and German Orientalist tradition,
271

occupation of West Bank and

Gaza (1967),
281

Orientalism,
271–
3

US support,
281

Issawi, Charles,
292

Italy, Orientalism,
203

Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasium
(Busbecq),
63

Itinerarium
(Wilhem von Bodensele),
52

Itinerarius
(Ricoldo da Monte Croce),
39

Ivory Towers on Sand
(Kramer),
272

al-Jabarti,
139

Jabir ibn Hayyam
(Kraus),
273

Jabir ibn Hayyan,
30

Jalal al-Din Rumi,
151
,
208

Jameelah, Maryam,
318–
19

James I, king of England,
89
,
90

James of Vitry, BishopofAcre,
37–
8

Jansenism,
141
,
143–
4

Jaubert, Amedée,
139

Java,
200

Jean Germain, Bishop of Nevers and Chalon,
48

Jenkyns, Richard,
159

Jerusalem

Arabicbooks looted,
37

Hebrew University,
271
,
272