Iran: Empire of the Mind (58 page)

Russia
1
,
169
,
173
,
179
,
180–5
,
191
,
195
,
196–9
,
200
,
204–5
,
211–14
,
215
,
216
,
217
,
218
,
221

Sabzavar
117
,
260

Saddam Hussein
271
,
272–3
,
278

Sa’di
106

Al-Sadr, Moqtada
290

Sadr Al-Din, Shaykh
130

Safavids
121
,
129–145
,
150
,
156
,
174
,
177

Saffarids
87

Safi, Shah
142

Safi, Shaykh
130

St Petersburg
173
,
185

Sakae
34
,
35
,
39

Salamis
26

salat
74

Salman Rushdie
275

Salisbury, Lord
189
,
198–9

Samanids
87–9
,
91
,
118

Samarkand
118–19
,
139
,
161

Samarra
81
,
128
,
249
,
273
,
291

Sana’i
98

San‘an, Shaykh
100

Sanei, Yousef, Grand Ayatollah
278

Sanjabi, Karim
257

Sanskrit,
xv
,
1
,
7

Saoshyant
8–9
.
129

sarbedari
117–18
,
130

Sardari Qajar, Abdol-Hosein
235–6

Sardis
26
,
29

Sartre
230
,
244
,
260

Sassanids (dynasty)
6
,
44–7
,
49
,
51
,
56
,
62–9
,
98
,
106
,
118
,
120
,
132
,
136
, Sattar Khan
211
,
212

Al-Saud family
178

Saudi Arabia
292

Savad Kuh
160
,
225

SAVAK
245
,
247
,
248
,
251
,
252
,
255
,
259
,
260
,
262
,
267
,
270

School of Isfahan
138

Schuster, Morgan
213–14
,
227

Scythia, Scythians
5
,
15

Seleuceia
33
,
35–6
,
43

Seleucus I Nicator
31

Seleucids
18
,
33
,
35
,
36

Seljuks
91–3
,
98
,
103
,
105

Sennacherib
12

Sepah-e Pasdaran
see Revolutionary Guard

Corps Severus
44

seyyed
206

Seyyed Ali Mohammad
192

Sha’ban the Brainless
242

Shabestari (poet)
110

Shabestari, Mohammad Mojtahed
278

Shahabadi, Mirza Mohammad Ali
250

Shah Abd ol-Azim, shrine of
196
,
202
,
205
,
210

Shahab III missile
286

Shahin
68

Shahnameh
39
,
72
,
88–90
,
256

Shahrokh (son of Timur)
121

Shahrokh (grandson of Nader Shah)
161
,
168
,
173–4

Shahrvaraz
68
,
69

Shakespeare
90
,
315

Shams-e Tabrizi
107

Shapur I
48
,
51
,
52–3
,
56
,
57

Shapur II
57–9

Shapur III
59

shari‘a
208

Shariati, Ali
259–60
,
258–9
,
269

Shari‘atmadari, Ayatollah Seyyed Kazem
261
,
269

Shatt al-Arab
272

Shaykhism
191
,
202

Shi‘ism, xiv-xv,
123–9
,
131–2
,
138
,
139–141
,
145
,
170
,
174
,
175
,
177
,
238
,
260
,
276
,
278
,
290–91

Shiraz
xv
,
112
,
138
,
165
,
170
,
171–2
,
190
,
192
,
213
,
283

Shirazi, Hajji Mirza Hasan
200
,
202

Shirin
67
,
72

Shirvan
149
,
151
,
183
,
187

Shushtar
45
,
48

shu’ubiyya
82
,
118
, Siavosh
72

Sicily
25
, Silk Route
35
,
51
,
83
,
120

Simko/Simitqu
267

Sind
106

simorgh
100

Sistan
35
,
39
,
87

Al-Sistani, Ayatollah
290

Smyth, Lt Col
221

Sogdia, Sogdians
xvi
,
4
,
78

Sohrab
72

Sohravardi
96
,
138
,
275

Soleiman, Shah
142–148

Soltanabad
249

Soltaniyeh
106

Sonbad the Magian
86

Soroush, Abdolkarim
276

South Persia Rifles
218

soyurgal
120

spahbod
63
,
66

Sparta, Spartans
26
,
29

Spartacus
37

Spenta Mainyu
7

Stalin
228
,
290

Statira
31

Stenka Razin
143

Sufism
96–8
,
99
,
100
,
112
,
107
,
129
,
130–1
,
138
,
177

Sulla
35

Sumer, Sumerians
2
,
13
,
14

sunna
76

Sunni Islam
79–80
,
85–6
,
97–8
,
119
,
125–128
,
131
,
133
,
149
,
157
,
174–5
,
177
,
290–1

Suren
36
,
38
,
39
,
41

Susa,
xv
,
2
,
13
,
21
,
25

Swedish gendarmerie
212
,
217

Syria
33
,
37
,
38
,
39
,
44
,
47
,
51
,
56
,
58
,
66
,
73
,
76
,
219
,
232
,
268

Tabarestan
77

Al-Tabari
62
,
84

Tabataba’i, Seyyed Mohammad
205
,
206
,
208
,
210
,
211

Tabataba’i, Seyyed Zia
222
,
236

Tabriz
105
,
107
,
117
,
121
,
133–4
,
152
,
183
,
190
,
192
,
200
,
203
,
205
,
210
,
211
,
212
,
238
,
261

Taherids
87
,
88

Tahmasp I, Shah
134
,
142

Tahmasp II, Shah
153
,
154
,
155
,
156
,
147
,
160

Tajikistan,
xvi
, Taleqani, Ayatollah
259

Taliban
288
,
293

Talmud
11
,

taqiyeh
127
,
128

Taqizadeh, Seyyed Hasan
210
,
211
,
212
,
229

Taylor Prism
12–13
,

ta’zieh
175
,
176

Tbilisi
173

Tehran,
xiv
,
4
,
171
,
173
,
180
,
181
,
182
,
184
,
195
,
196
,
200
,
203
,
205
,
206
,
207
,
211
,
212
,
213
,
214
,
216
,
217
,
221
,
222
,
223
,
225
,
226
,
227
,
228
,
229
,
234
,
235
,
237
,
238
,
242
,
243
,
246
,
247
,
248
,
251
,
252
,
253
,
254
,
255
,
259
,
260
,
262
,
263
,
265
,
274
,
280
,
288
,
289