The Great Arab Conquests (80 page)
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Authors: Hugh Kennedy
Rusāfa
Rustam, Persian general
Rustam, legendary hero
Ruzbān
Rūzbih b. Buzurgmihr
Sabra
Sa
c
d b. Abī Waqqās
c
d b. Abī Waqqās
Sa
c
id al-Harashī
c
id al-Harashī
Sa
c
id Khudhayna
c
id Khudhayna
Sa
c
id b. Batrīq
c
id b. Batrīq
Saghāniyān
Sahara, the
Sajāh
Sajūma
Sakas
Sālih b. Muslim al-Bāhilī
Saljuk Turks
Salm b. Ziyād
Samarqand
Samh b. Mālik al-Khawlāni
Sanutius
Sarat, the
Sardinia
Sasanian forces
Sasanian Persians
Sasanian wars
Sawād
Sawīrus b. al-Muqaffa
Sawra b. al-Hurr al-Tamīmī
Sayf b. Umar
Sbeitla
Scythopolis
Sebeos
Segermes
Seleucia
Seleucus Nicator
Seville
Shāhi Zinda, th
Shahnāmah
Shahrak
Shahrbarāz
Shāhriyār
Shapur I, Shāh
Shapur II, Shāh
Sharīk b. Shuway
Shāsh
Shaybān tribe
Shayzar
shields
see
weaponry
see
weaponry
shipbuilding
Shiraz
Shīrzād
Shiz
Shūmān
Sicily
Sidi Okba;
see also
Uqba b. Nāfi
see also
Uqba b. Nāfi
Sidon
siege engines
siege warfare
Silk Road, the
Sind
Sindered, Archbishop of Toledo
Sinkiang
Sirjān
Sistan
Sīwīstān
Siyāvush
slaves
Soghdia
Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem
Stephen, St
Straits of Gibraltar
Strategikon
Su-Lu
Subeita
Sufyān, Arab naval commander
Sulaym tribe
Sulaymān b. Abd Malik, Umayyad caliph
sulhan
Sūs al-Aqsā
Susa
Suwayd b. Muqarrin
Syracuse
Tāb river
Tabarī
Tabaristān
Tabensi
Tabūk
Tahert
Tā’if
Tajikistan
Tajiks
Talas, battle of
Tāliqān
Tamīm tribe
Tangier
Tāqi Bustān
Taraz
see
Talas
see
Talas
Tāriq b. Ziyād
Tarkhūn
Tarsus
Tashtakaracha Pass, battle of the
Tawwaj
taxation
Thābit b. Qutba
Thaqafīs
Thaqīf
Theodemir
Theodora Empress
Theodore
Theodore Trithurios
Theodosius Grammaticus
Theophanes
Theophilus
Thessalonica, siege of
Tiberias
Tigris river
Tikrit
Timgad
Tinnis
Tirmidh
Tlemcen
Tobna, battle of
Tokra
Toledo
Toulouse
Tours
Trajan, Emperor
Transjordan
transliteration
Transoxania
tribute
Tripoli
Tripolitania
Tu Huan
Tubna
Tughshāda
Tukhāristān
T’ung Yabghu
Tunis
Tunisia
Türgesh
Türgesh Kaghan
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks
Tus
Tustar
Tyre
Ubāda
Ubayd Allāh b. Abī Bakra
Ubulla
Uhud, battle of
Umar I b. al-Khattāb, Caliph
Umar II b. Abd al-Azīz, Umayyad caliph
Umar Khayyām
Umayya b. Abd Allāh b. Khālid b. Usayd
Umm Dunayn, battle of
Umm Jamīl
umma
, the
, the
Umayyad Caliphate
Uqba b. Nāfi
Ushtum
Utba b. Ghazwān al-Māzinī
Uthmān b. Abī’l-Ās al-Thaqafī
Uthmān b. Affān, Caliph
Uzbekistan
Uzbeks
Valerian, Emperor
Vandals, the
Visigoths
Volubilis
Wadi’l-Ruqqād
Wadi Araba
Wadi Dra
Wadi’-l
c
Allān
c
Allān
Wadi Maskiyāna, battle of
Wadi Natrun
Wāj al-Rūdh
Wakī al-Tamīmī
Walīd I, Umayyad caliph
Walīd II, Umayyad caliph
Walīla
see
Volubilis
see
Volubilis
Wardān-Khudā
warships
weaponry ; bows ;
crossbows ; naval ; shields ,
; spears; swords
Wickham, Chris
Willibald, St
Witiza
Yahūdiya
Yamāma
Yāqūt al-Hamawī
Yarmūk, battle of
Yassi Adi wreck
Yazdānfar
Yazdgard III, Shāh
Yazīd I, Umayyad caliph
Yazīd II, Umayyad caliph
Yazīd III, Umayyad caliph
Yazīd (Mūsā supporter)
Yazīd b. Abū Sufyān
Yazīd b. al-Muhallab
Yemen
Zacharia
Zaghwān
Zagros mountains
Zanāta tribes
Zarafshan river
Zarafshan valley
Zaragoza
Zaranj
Zarq
Zenobia, Queen
Zeugitania
Zinābi
Zionists
Ziyād b. Abī Sufyān
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrian fire-temples
Zubayr
Zubayr b. al-Awwām
Zuhayr b. Dhu’ayb al-Adawī
Zuhayr b. Qays
Zunbīl
Zutt
Zuwayla
a
The Arabic word
khalīfa
is the origin of the English ‘caliph’, the title by which the rulers of the early Islamic state are normally known in English. The caliphs also had the more formal title of
Amīr al-mu’minīn
or Commander of the Faithful.
khalīfa
is the origin of the English ‘caliph’, the title by which the rulers of the early Islamic state are normally known in English. The caliphs also had the more formal title of
Amīr al-mu’minīn
or Commander of the Faithful.
b
Kisra, the Arabic form of Chosroes, was the generic name given to Persian kings.
c
Rib
c
ī b.
c
Āmir al-Tamīmī.
c
ī b.
c
Āmir al-Tamīmī.
d
3 irdabbs, an irdabb being about 70 kilos.
e
2 qists, an Egyptian qist being 2.106 litres.
f
The barsom was a bundle of twigs of the haoma bush, which were bound together and held by anyone reciting a Zoroastrian grace before a meal. The implication of the story must be that only a member of the nobility would require this.
g
A measure of 4 litres, the implication being that this was very expensive.
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