Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (118 page)

Muhammad (Prophet):

descendents of, 259

successors to, 256

Muhammad Sharif al-Faruqi, 268, 283

Murray, Sir Archibald:

and Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 4, 45, 285

at Gaza, 4, 70–71, 91, 104–5

and Lawrence’s reports, 291

and Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 282

and military strategy, 5, 29, 285

replacement by Allenby, 105, 108, 110, 297, 322

Murray, Thomas, 140n

Muslims, spiritual leadership of, 261

Nablus, British conquest of, 412

Nakhl Mubarak, Arab army at, 54, 56, 57

Napoleon Bonaparte, 235, 275

Lawrence compared to, 28, 60, 61, 149, 515

Lawrence’s studies of, 28, 29

military strategies of, 366, 370, 411

Naqib of Baghdad, 523

Nasir, sharif of Medina, 399

and attack on Aqaba, 99, 238

journey to Aqaba, 82, 83, 89, 90, 95

journey to Damascus, 428, 429

journey to Wejh, 65

at Sheikh Saad, 417, 424

and tribal rivalries, 92

on Turkish threat to Aqaba, 301

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 234

Nazareth, British conquest of, 411–12

Nefudh dunes, 86

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 483

Nelson, Flight Lieutenant, 546

Nelson, Horatio Viscount Nelson, 112, 567, 686, 690

Nesib el Bekri, 82, 89

New, E. H., 167

Newcombe, Stewart F.:

as British military adviser to Feisal, 63, 65

and Carchemish site, 240

and Lawrence’s funeral, 679

military skills of, 235

mutual respect of Lawrence and, 64, 65, 90

and Palestine map survey, 235, 236–38

in Paris, 472

and raids on railway to Medina, 70, 82

and World War I, 250, 252, 254, 257

Newspaper Proprietors Association, 673

New York Times, The
, 636, 638

Nicholas, Grand Duke, 289

Nicholas I, Czar, 13

Nicolson, Sir Arthur, 274–75

Nicolson, Sir Harold, 274n, 475, 583, 656

Nightingale, Florence, 449

Northern Theater, map,
324

Nuri as-Said, 364–65

Arab regulars commanded by, 417

cutting railway lines, 364, 410

deportation to India, 259

as former Turkish officer, 19

as future prime minister of Iraq, 259

at Tafas, 419, 424

at Tafileh, 360, 365

travel with Feisal to Europe, 457

at Um el Surab, 415

Nuri Shallan, Emir, 415, 417

as Arab ruler, 88–89, 92, 403

attacks on Turkish lines, 416, 428

at Damascus, 429

physical traits of, 91

and tribal rivalries, 88

Turkish connections of, 88, 89, 95

Obeid el Raashid, 18, 23, 26–27, 29, 30

Observer, The
(London), 505

Odyssey
(Homer), Lawrence’s translation of, 102n, 151, 489, 605, 625, 633, 643, 655, 661–62

Official Secrets Act, 678

Offit, Avodah, 140n

O’Flaherty, Liam, 612

Olivier, Sir Laurence, 690n, 692

Oman, Charles, 165, 166

On the Waterfront
(film), 692

Orwell, George,
Down and Out in Paris and London
, 579

Osler, Sir William, 219

O’Toole, Peter, 693, 694, 695

Ottoman Empire:

archaeological sites in, 141, 184–85, 190, 199, 233, 239

and British foreign policy, 12–13, 183, 260

and British intelligence, 283

and British Turcophiles, 12–13

European ambitions for, 81–82, 270, 469, 697–98

gun-running in, 218–19, 221

as isolated and primitive for travelers, 168–69

Lawrence’s first trip to, 168–76

map by Lawrence, 532–33

Sykes-Picot agreement on, 38, 40, 81, 276, 278–79, 504

war rumors in, 202–3, 215

war strategies against, 2, 253, 291, 531

weaknesses of, 222, 224–25

and World War I, 252

Owen, Wilfred, 265

Oxford:

Ashmolean Museum, 136, 141, 155, 165, 182, 222, 223, 225, 675

City of Oxford High School, 136–40, 144

Lawrence family in, 128, 132, 497

Oxford Times
, 539

Oxford University:

All Souls College, 119, 143, 185n, 484–85, 489–90, 491–92, 497, 503, 533, 557, 579, 587n, 681

Bodleian Library, 618

Jesus College, 153, 155–56, 162–65, 173–74, 176–77, 178, 182, 185–86, 202, 217

Lawrence’s entrance into, 148, 151–52, 153

Lawrence’s thesis in, 150, 163, 165, 176–77, 186, 202

Magdalen College at, 185

student life in, 154–55

vanished world of, 491–92, 662

Oxford University Officers’ Training Corps, 156, 158, 243

Oxford University Press, 598

Palestine:

borders of, 519–20, 524

British control of, 412, 444, 451, 459, 460, 466, 474, 477, 505, 507, 509, 520, 697

creation as separate entity, 697

diverse populations of, 521–22

flag of, 272

holy sites in, 39, 466

Jewish settlements in, 277, 306, 329, 451, 463, 466, 467, 468, 476, 509, 512, 520, 522, 531–32, 695

Lawrence’s travels in, 171–72

map survey of, 63, 83, 232–39

as military goal, 100, 267

military strategy between wars, 29

national home for Jewish people in, 39, 399–400, 511, 520, 531–32, 697

partition of, 39, 276, 329, 466

political control of, 39, 280, 444, 458

and Sykes-Picot agreement, 39, 276, 280, 451, 467

Weizmann-Feisal agreement on, 465–68

and Zionism, 280, 306, 328–29, 451, 458, 463, 466–67, 519–20, 524, 531

Palestine Exploration Fund:

mapping expedition, 63, 83, 232–41, 246

report:
’e Wilderness of Zin
, 241–42, 244, 250, 254

Palmer, E. “Posh,” 606, 608

Paris Peace Conference (1919), 468–78

and Britain, 439–40, 453, 456–59, 462, 469, 475–76, 510

Clemenceau at, 210, 460–61, 474

and Council of Ten, 473–74

and Feisal, 439, 452, 453, 455–59,
456, 459
, 461, 468, 469, 472, 473–77

and France, 439–40, 453, 456–59, 460, 469, 473–78

and Lawrence, 96, 137, 210, 439–40, 452–53, 457,
459
, 462, 471–74, 476, 485, 698

Lloyd George at, 210, 460–61, 473

Meinertzhagen at, 469–71

and Middle East, 100, 460–61, 470, 473, 474, 476, 510

scope of discussions at, 468–69

TV film about, 694

and Wilson, 210, 454, 458, 460, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476

Parker, K. T., 675

Patch, Blanche, 577

Patton, George C., 694

Peake, Frederick, 407, 409, 528–29

Peerage Act (1963), 118

Pepys, Samuel, 8

Persia, oil in, 531

Petrie, Flinders, 195, 197, 201, 202, 203–4, 222

Philby, St. John “Jack,” 405n, 483, 484, 506, 529

Pichon, Stéphen-Jean-Marie, 455, 461, 475

Picot,
see
Georges-Picot, François

Pike, Manning, 598, 602, 611

Pirie-Gordon, C. H. C., 167, 175

Pisani, Rosario, 306, 419

Plato, 630

Pontius Pilate, 8, 353

Poole, Reginald Lane, 155, 156

Port Said, Lawrence’s travels in, 169, 175

Pound, Ezra, 205, 672, 688

Price, Hugh [Aprice], 152

Private Life of Henry VIII, The
(film), 668

PT boats, 649

Pudovkin, Vsevolod, 62

Pugh, Flight Sergeant, 608, 614, 616

Rabegh:

defense of, 60

French ambitions for, 47, 48

journey to, 17–18, 21–28, 30–31

Lawrence’s assignment to, 49–50

military stores at, 298

rumors of Turkish attack on, 47, 49

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 119, 597

Rashids, ibn Saud as emir of, 88

Rasim, Damascene soldier, 372

Rattigan, Terence,
Ross
, 694

Rawlinson, Sir Henry, 251

Redmond, John, 271

Red Sea ports, 21, 88

Rennell, Lord, 482

Reshadiye
, 247–48

Revolt in the Desert
[abridgement of
Seven Pillars
] (Lawrence):

charity fund for income from, 622

copyright sold to Cape, 602–3, 614

critical reviews of, 622–23