Authors: Karen Armstrong

Fields of Blood (106 page)

Muslims
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
11.1
; Bosnian,
13.1
; Christian crusades against,
see
Crusades
; emigration from Mecca of,
7.2
; fundamentalist,
11.2
,
11.3
,
13.2
; impact of secularism on,
11.4
,
11.5
; in India,
10.2
,
11.6
,
11.7
,
12.1
(
see also
Moghul Empire
); in Pakistan,
11.8
,
11.9
,
13.3
; Palestinian,
11.10
,
12.2
; rigidly rule-bound (
see
Deobandis
);

Muslims (
continued
)

in Spain,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
; Turkish (
see
Ottoman Empire
);
see also
Shiis
;
Sufis
;
Sunnis
;
Wahhabism

Muslim World League,
13.1
,
13.2

Mustafa, Shukri,
12.1
,
aft.1

Myth of Religious Violence, The
(Cavanaugh)

Nabonidus, King of Babylon

Nadir tribe

Nagasaki, atomic bombing of

Najaf (Iraq),
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
12.2

Napoleon, Emperor of France,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
11.1

Napoleonic Wars

Naram-Sin, Akkadian emperor

Narragansetts

Naruna

Naseby, Battle of

Natal Indian Congress Party

National Assembly, French

National Association of Evangelicals

National Council of Churches

nationalism
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
aft.1
,
aft.2
; First World War,
10.3
; Hindu,
12.1
; Israeli,
10.4
,
11.1
,
11.6
,
12.2
,
aft.3
; Palestinian,
12.3
,
12.4
; secular,
10.5
,
10.6
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
11.6
,
11.7
,
12.5
,
12.6
,
13.3
,
aft.4
; Slavic,
13.4
; terrorism inspired by,
12.7
,
12.8

National Liberation Front (FLN), Algerian,
13.1
,
13.2

National Socialism
,
see also
Nazis

Native Americans
,
2.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
;
see also names of tribes

NATO

Nazareth (Galilee),
5.1
,
8.1
; Jesus of,
see
Jesus

Nazis
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
13.1
,
13.2

Nebo

Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5

Neco, Pharaoh

Neglected Duty, The
(Faraj),
12.1
,
13.1

Nehemiah

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Neolithic period

Nero, Roman emperor,
5.1
,
5.2

Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople

Netherlands
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
10.1

neuroanatomy

New Israel,
see
Carolingian dynasty

Newton, Huey

Newton, Isaac,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4

New Testament,
6.1
,
9.1

New World,
see
Americas

New York,
10.1
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
aft.1
; colonial,
10.2
; Muslims in,
13.3
,
13.4
; terrorist attacks on,
13.5
,
13.6
,
13.7
,
13.8
,
13.9

New York Times,
10

New York University

Nicene creed,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6

Nicodemus

Nicomedia

Nile River,
1.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
5.1
,
8.1

9/11 terrorist attacks,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

Ninsun

Nirvana,
2.1
,
4.1
,
12.1

Nis (Serbia)

Nisibis (Turkey)

Nizam al-Mulk,
7.1
,
7.2

Noah,
10.1
,
10.2

Nobel Peace Prize

“Noble Path” of Buddhism

Nogaret, Guillaume de

nonviolence,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
; Buddhist,
itr.1
,
2.4
; Christian,
8.1
,
8.2
; Hindu,
2.5
,
2.6
,
aft.1
; Islamic,
7.1
,
11.4
,
13.1
; Jain,
2.7
,
2.8
; of Jews in Roman Empire,
5.1
,
5.2

Normandy (France)

Norse

North, Lord

North Africa,
1.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
9.1
; Christianity in,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
; in Ottoman Empire,
9.2
; during Persian-Byzantine war,
6.3
,
6.4

Northampton (Connecticut),
10.1
,
10.2

Norwich (England)

Notre Dame Cathedral (Paris)

Nubia

Nur ad-Din, Mahmoud

Oath of Supremacy

October War (1973),
11.1
,
12.1
,
13.1

Odisha

Odo, abbot of Cluny,
8.1

Odyssey
(Homer),
1.1
,
2.1

Oklahoma City, bombing of Federal Building in

Omar, Mullah

Omdurman, Battle of

Omri, King of Israel

Operation Enduring Freedom

Oran

Oriental Institute (Sarajevo)

Origen,
5.1
,
5.2

original sin,
4.1
,
10.1

Orléans (France),
8.1
,
9.1

Orthodox Jews,
10.1
,
11.1

Oslo Accords

Otto, Holy Roman Emperor

Ottoman Empire
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
11.1
; Islamic ideology of,
3.1
; Napoleon’s invasion of,
10.1
,
11.2
; post—First World War division of former territories of,
11.3
,
11.4
; Spanish Inquisition as response to threat of,
9.4

Oxenstierna, Axel

Oxford Classical English Dictionary, The,
itr.1

Oxford University,
itr.1
,
9.1

Oxus River

Pacem in Terris
(Pope John XXIII)

paedeia,
6.1

paganism: in Byzantine Empire,
6.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
12.1
; Christianity and,
5.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
aft.1
; Islamist view of,
11.1
; Israelites and,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
; in Persia,
6.4

Pahlavi, Shah Muhammad Reza,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

Paine, Thomas,
10.1
,
10.2

Pakistan
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4
,
13.5
,
aft.1
; al-Qaeda in,
13.6
,
13.7

Paleolithic Age,
itr.1
,
itr.2

Palestine,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
13.1
,
aft.1
; in Byzantine Empire,
6.1
,
6.2
; Fatimid dynasty in,
7.1
,
8.1
; Muslim conquest of,
7.2
,
7.3
; partition of,
11.1
(
see also
Israel
, creation of); Persian conquest of,
6.3
; in Roman Empire,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
; Zionist settlements in,
10.1

Palestinian Authority

Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO),
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4

Palestinians,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
13.1
,
aft.1
; Israeli treatment of,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
12.3
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4
; uprisings against Israel of,
12.4

Palladius,
6.1
,
6.2

Panathenaea

Panchalas,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Pandavas

pan-Islamism
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

Pape, Robert

Paris,
9.1
,
9.2
; Edict of,
9.3
; during French Revolution,
10.1
,
aft.1

Partisan Movement

Pasenedi, King of Koshala

Pashtun (Afghan tribe)

Passover,
5.1
,
5.2
,
11.1

pastoral societies
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
4.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
aft.1
;
see also
herdsmen

Pataliputra (India)

patriarchs: in Eastern Christianity,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
; Jewish,
4.1
,
4.2
,
11.1

Paul IV, Pope

Paul, Saint
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1
, 398

pauperes Christi,
207

Pax Christiana,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
aft.1

Pax Deorum,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1

Pax Islamica

Pax Romana,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
aft.1

Peace and Truce of God,
8.1
,
8.2
,
aft.1

Peasants’ War

Pennsylvania, crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in,
13.1
,
nts.1
n62

Pentateuch
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
10.1

Pentecost

People’s Temple

Pequots (American tribe)

Peraea

perennial philosophy,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
5.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

Perpetua, Vibia

Persepolis (Persia)

Persia
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1
,
nts.1
n69; ancient,
1.1
,
1.2
; Muslim conquest of,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
; religion of,
see
Zoroastrianism
; Byzantine wars with,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.4