For Lust of Knowing (71 page)

Muslim territories,
324

Spain

American colonies,
62

Arab conquest,
19

Islam, Christians and,
24–
6

Sparrow, John,
118

Specimen historiae Arabum
(Pococke),
95

Speculum Historicum
(Vincent of Beauvais),
52

Spivak, Gayatri,
300

Sprenger, Aloys,
150
,
187

Standard,
182

Stark, Freya,
218

Stern, Samuel,
253
,
273

Stoker, Bram,
192

Storrs, Sir Ronald,
209

Strabo,
18

Strauss, David Friedrich,
154

Study of History, A
(Toynbee),
149–
50

Suez Canal,
182
,
281

Sufism,
45–
6,
171
,
200
,
205
,
224
,
235
,
242
,
274
,
291

Suleiman, Yasser,
292

Suleiman the Magnificent,
60

Summa contra gentiles
(Aquinas),
35–
6,
327

Summa Theologica
(Aquinas),
327

Sunni Islam,
145

evolution,
242

Shafi'ite law in,
249

superiority,
40

Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes,
175–
6

Sykes, Mark,
222

Syria

Arab conquest,
19

Crusader,
36
,
37

Hamdanid era,
37

Mamluk empire,
60

post-First World War,
222

Umayyad,
25
,
216

Syrie du Nord à lépoque des Croisades, La
(Cahen),
254

System or Condition of the Muhamedan Religion
(Kantemir),
130

al-Tabari,
155
,
186
,
191

Tabriz, Russian atrocities,
206

Tacitus,
209

Taj al-‘Arus,
165

Talisman, The
(Scott),
8
,
241
,
286

al-Tantawi, Muhammad'Ayyad, Shaykh,
158
,
164
,
165

al-Tanukhi,
211

Tarikh al-Hind al-Garbi,
62

tarjumans,
110–
11

Tartary, vegetable lamb,
50

taxonomy, Said on,
293–
4

Tel el-Kebir, battle (1882),
182

Theatrum orbis terrarum
(Orteliius),
74

Thenaud, Jean,
63

theology, Arabic studies and,
85–
6,
94
,
109

Thermopylae, battle (480
BC
),
11

Thesaurus linguae arabicae
(Raphelengius),
79
,
89

Thévenot, Jean de,
110
,
133

Thomas Aquinas, St,
35–
6,
327

Thousand and One Nights, The,
43
,
45
,
105
,
114
,
116
,
143
,
164–
5,
214
,
244
,
245
,
258
,
324
,
329

Calcutta I,
160

Three Orations Against the Calumniators of the Holy Icons
(John of Damascus),
23

Thucydides,
209

Tibawi, A. L.,
267–
8,
292
,
319–
22,
323
,
325

Tibi, Bassam,
245

Times Literary Supplement,
303
,
304
,
306

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
170

To Jerusalem and Back
(Bellow),
264

Toledo, as centre for Islamic study,
26
,
27–
9,
32
,
101

Tolkien, J. R. R.,
215

Tornberg, Johann,
159

Torrey, Charles Cutler,
214

To the Finland Station
(Wilson),
252

Tott, François, Baron de,
133
,
134
,
138

Toynbee, Arnold,
149–
50

Tractatus de Statu Saracenorum
(William of Tripoli),
38
,
52

travel literature, rise,
50–
53,
62–
4

Travels
(Ibn Jubayr),
179

Trinity College Dublin,
179
,
213

Trojan War,
13

True Nature of Imposture fully display'd in the Life of Mahomet
(Hyde),
100

Tübingen university,
154

al-Tughrai,
128

Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques,
133

Turkish language,
78
,
102
,
113
,
122
,
192

Turkish scholars, access to Western publications,
240

Turkish studies, lack of,
110

Turks, fear of,
109–
10

Turner, Ralph,
218–
19,
240

Turris Babel
(Kircher),
107

typeface, Arabic,
75
,
76
,
84
,
93
,
137

Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indien
(Schlegel),
156

Ullmann, Manfred,
33
,
274

Ulugh Beg,
92
,
99
,
128

Um Kulthum,
308

Umayyad caliphs,
22
,
23
,
25
,
186
,
187
,
202
,
208
,
286

Unitarianism,
86
,
291

United States

Middle East policy,
307

Middle East Studies Association (MESA),
247
,
275
,
302

National Defense Act (1958),
245

Orientalism,
213–
14,
244
,
245–
6,
292

universities

Arabic studies,
47–
8,
85

reform (1870s),
178

retrenchment (1970s),
265–
6

Scottish,
178

and teaching of Arabic,
90–
92,
97
,
266

Untergang des Abendlandes, Der
(Spengler),
235

Ussher, James,
73
,
77

Uyun al-Akhbar
(al-Qutayba),
235

Valla, Lorenzo,
55

Valley of Diamonds,
50

Vámbéry, Arminius,
191–
2,
291

Vathek
(Beckford),
8

Vatican II (1962–5),
226

Vatican Library, Arabic manuscript collection,
65
,
74
,
80

Vatikiotis, Panayiotis J. (Taki),
258
,
264–
6

Veda,
234

Vedanta, primordial nature,
315
,
316

Venice, centre of Islamic study,
74

Venture de Paradis, Jean-Michel,
138

Venture of Islam, The
(Hodgson),
250
,
251

Verdi, Giuseppe,
8

Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend Griechischen, Lateinischen…
(Bopp),
156–
7,
167

Verinnerlichung,
221

Vichy Regime,
228

Vico, Giambattista,
279–
80,
282

Victoria College, Cairo,
278

Vie de Jésus
(Renan),
168

Vie de Mahomet
(Boulainvilliers),
116–
17,
118

Vie de Mahomet
(Gagnier),
118

Vienna, Turks besiege,
60
,
109

Vienne, Council (1311–12),
6–
7,
9
,
47–
8,
284
,
324
,
328

Vincent of Beauvais,
52

Virgil,
42

Volney, Constantin-François de

Chasseboeuf, comte de,
134–
5,
136

Voltaire, Jean-Marie-Arouet,
12
,
117
,
121

Vorlesungen über den Islam
(Goldziher),
195

Vossius,
93

Voyage en Egypte et en Syria
(Volney),
134
,
136

Waardenburg, Jacques,
196

Wade, Thomas,
157

Waley, Arthur,
157

Wallis, John,
101

Walpole, Horace,
117

Walzer, Richard,
250
,
253

Wansbrough, John,
250
,
268–
70,
329

al-Waqidi,
119

Warburg, Aby,
15

Warton, Thomas,
5

Watson, Major C. M.,
177

Watt, William Montgomery,
197
,
202
,
267–
8,
283

Weber, Max,
199

Wehr, Hans,
239
,
265

Weijers, Hendrik,
174

Weil, Gustav,
153
,
155
,
163

Weiner, Justus Reid,
307

Weiss, Leopold (Muhammad Asad,
pseud.),
314–
15

Wellhausen, Julius,
185–
7,
194
,
195
,
202
,
218
,
270
,
283
,
287

and Gobineau,
172

historical method,
187

Wensink, Arent Jan,
190

West Bank, Israeli occupation (1967),
281

Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages
(Southern),
47
,
48
,
327–
8

West–östlicher Divan
(Goethe),
235
,
295

Wheelocke, Abraham,
96
,
98
,
99

White Mughals
(Dalrymple),
159

Wickens, G. M.,
244

Wiet, Gaston,
215

Wild, Stefan,
274

Wilhem von Bodensele,
52

Wilkinson, John Gardner,
163–
4

William, Archbishop of Tyre,
36

William, Canon of Utrecht,
52

William of Newburgh,
50

William of Tripoli,
38
,
52

Wilson, Horace Hayman,
161
,
162

Wittek, Paul,
268

Wolf, Friedrich August,
154

Words and Things
(Gellner),
303

world, chronology of,
77–
8

World of Islam, The
(Bartold),
230
,
321

Wright, William,
103
,
179–
80,
181
,
182
,
183
,
204

at Cambridge,
166
,
178
,
179
,
204

Wüst, Walther,
234

Wyclif, John,
49

Xanadu,
62

Xenophon,
16

Xerxes I, king of Persia,
11
,
12

Yale University, Arabicand Sanskrit Chair,
214

Yapp, Malcolm,
252
,
258
,
306

al-Yaqut,
211

Yazid II, Umayyad Caliph,
23

Year Amongst the Persians, A
(Browne),
204
,
205
,
296

Young, Brigham,
211

Young, G. M.,
176–
7

Yuhanna ibn Mansur,
see
John of

Damascus, St Yusuf ibn Abu Dhaqan,
see
Abudacnus

al-Zahiri, Khalil,
see
Khalil al-Zahiri

za'irja,
64

al-Zamakhshari,
115
,
153

Zeitschrift des Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
,
148

Zend-Avesta,
125

Zij
(astronomical tables),
28
,
92
,
99

Zimmerman, Fritz,
31

Zionism

Gibb denounces,
297

Said and,
306

Zohar
, translated,
66

Zubda Kashf al-Asrar
(Khalil al-Zahiri),
138