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Authors: Hugh Kennedy

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Akk tribe
 
Al-Rūr
 
Alā b. al-Hadramī
 
Aleppo
 
Alexander the Great
 
Alexandria
 
Algeciras
 
Algeria
 
Alī, Caliph
 
Alī b. Hāmid al-Kūfī
 
Alor
 
Alqama
 
Amida (Diyarbakr)
 
Āmir b. al-Tufayl
 
Amr b. al-Ās
 
Amr b. al-Hurayth al-Qurashī
 
Anahita, goddess
 
Anastasius, St
 
Anatolia
 
anwatan
 
Anbār
 
Anbasa b. Sulaym al-Kalbī
 
Andronicus
 
ansār
, the
 
Antony, St
 
Antioch
 
Apamea
 
Aphrodito
 
Aquitaine
 
Arabian peninsula
 
Aramaeans
 
Aramaic
 
Achaemenids
 
archery
 
Arculf
 
Ardashīr I, Shāh
 
Ardashīr III, Shāh
 
Arfaja b. Harthama al-Bāriqī
 
Armenia
 
Armenians
 
armour
 
Arnold, Matthew
 
Arrajān
 
Artemios, Emperor
 
Asad b. Abd Allāh al-Qasrī
 
Asāwira, the
 
Astorga
 
Aswan
 
Atā b. Rāfi
 
Atlas mountains
 
Aurelian, Emperor
 
Aurès mountains
 
Avars
 
Avignon
 
Ayyāsh al-Ghanawī
 
Azd tribe
 
Azerbaijan
 
 
 
Bāb al-Abwāb
 
Babylon, Egypt
 
Babylon, Iraq
 
Ba
c
albak
 
Bactria
 
Badakhshān
 
Badhghīs
 
Badr, battle of
 
Bāghāya
 
Baghdad
 
Bāhila tribe
 
Bahira, monk
 
Bahnasā
 
Bahrām Chūbin
 
Bahrām Gūr, Sasanian Shāh
 
Bahrayn
 
Bakr b. Wā’il tribe
 
Balādhurī
 
Balkh
 
Balqā
 
Bam
 
Bamiyan
 
Banbhore
 
Bandi Qaysar
 
Barcelona
 
Barqa
 
Basra
 
Bāzagharī
 
Bede, the Venerable
 
Beirut
 
Benjamin, patriarch of Alexandria
 
Berbers
 
Bet She’an
 
Bilbays
 
Biqa valley
 
Bishapur
 
Bisitun
 
Bistām
 
Bitlis
 
Black Death
 
booty
 
Bordeaux
 
Bostra
 
Brahmanābādh
 
Brahmins
 
Bridge, battle of the
 
bubonic plague
 
Buddhism
 
Bukayr b. Abd Allāh al-Laythī
 
Bukhara
 
Bumin
 
Būrān
 
Burgundy
 
Burs
 
Burullus
 
Bust
 
Butler, Alfred
 
Byzacena
 
Byzantine Empire
 
Byzantine forces
 
Byzantine naval forces
 
 
 
Caesarea
 
Caetani, Leone
 
Cairo
 
Carcassonne
 
Carmona
 
Carthage
 
Caspian Sea
 
Catalonia
 
Caucasus
 
Ceuta
 
Chāch, king of Sind
 
Chchnmah
 
Chalcedon, Council of
 
Chalcedonian Church
 
Chalkis
 
Charjui
 
Charles Martel
 
China
 
Chosroes I, Shāh
 
Chosroes II, Shāh
 
Christianity
 
Chronicle of 754
 
Chronicle of Alfonso III
 
Cilicia
 
coins
 
Constans II, Empero
 
Constantine IV, Emperor
 
Constantinople
 
Continuator of Fredegar
 
Cook, Michael
 
Copts
 
Cordova
 
corsairs
 
Covadonga, battle of
 
Crassus
 
Creasy, Edward
 
Crete
 
Crone, Patricia
 
Ctesiphon
 
Cyprus
 
Cyrenaica
 
Cyrrhus
 
Cyrus, Patriarch of Alexandria
 
Dabūsiya
 
Dāhir, king of Sind
 
Damascus
 
Daniel, prophet
 
Damietta
 
Darābjird
 
Dar
c
a
 
Dashti-Lut, the
 
Dastgard (Daskara)
 
Dāthin, battle of
 
Daybul
 
Daylamites
 
Derbent
 
Dihistān
 
Diophysite Church
 
Dīswashtīch
 
Domentianus
 
dromon
, the
 
Dūmat al-Jandal
 
Dunhuang
 
Dushanbe
 
 
 
Ecija
 
Edessa
 
Elburz mountains
 
Empty Quarter, the
 
Ethiopians
 
Eudes, Duke of Aquitaine
 
Euphrates river
 
 
 
Fannazbūr
 
Faramā
 
Farghāna
 
Farrukhzād
 
Fars
 
Fayruzān
 
Fayyum, the
 
Fentress, James
 
Fezzan, the
 
Firdawsi
 
fire-temples
see
Zoroastrian
 
France, invasion of
 
Fraxinetum (Fréjus)
 
Fredegar
 
Fustāt
 
 
 
Gābis
 
Garigliano river
 
Garonne
 
Gaza
 
Genghis Khan
 
Gerasa,
see
Jerash
 
Ghadāmis
 
Ghassānids
 
Ghūrak
 
Gibbon, Edward
 
Gijon
 
Girona
 
Gobi Desert
 
Goeje, M. J. de
 
Golan Heights
 
Greek fire
 
Gregory, Exarch of Africa
 
Gregory of Tours
 
Guadalajara
 
Guadalete river
 
Gūrgān
 
gypsies
 
 
 
Hajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī
 
Hakam b. Abī’l-Ās al-Thaqafī
 
Hamadhan
 
Hamra, the
 
Hanīfa tribe
 
Harīsh b. Hilāl al-Quray
c
ī
 
Hārith b. Surayj
 
Hārūn al-Rashīd, Abbasid caliph
 
Hassān b. al-Nu
c
mān al-Ghassānī
 
Hawāra
 
Hayyān al-Nabatī
 
Hazarasp
 
Heliopolis, battle of
 
Helmand river
 
helmets
 
Heraclius, Emperor
 
Herat
 
Herbadh
 
Herod the Great
 
Hijaz, the
 
hijra
, the
 
hilm
 
Himyar
 
Hindus
 
Hippo
 
Hīra
 
Hishām, Umayyad caliph

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