Fields of Blood (107 page)

Philistines,
4.1
,
4.2
,
12.1

Philpot, John

Phrygia

Pilate, Pontius

Pilgrim Fathers

pilgrims: Christian,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
; Hindu,
12.1
; Jewish,
6.1
; Muslim,
see
hajj

Pippin, King of the Franks,
8.1
,
8.2

Pizarro, Francisco

Plato

Platonism

Pliny

pluralism,
4.1
,
9.1
,
12.1
,
13.1

Plymouth (Massachusetts),
10.1
,
10.2

Poitiers (France),
6.1
,
7.1

Polybius

Pomerania

Pompey, Roman warlord

Portugal,
9.1
,
9.2

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Powhattans

Prague, Peace of

Preachers, Order of (Dominicans)

Presbyterians,
9.1
,
9.2

Proclamation of 1639

Promised Land,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
10.1

propaganda,
1.1
,
13.1
,
13.2

Protestants 5,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
11.1
; denominations of,
10.4
(
see also specific denominations
); Enlightenment,
10.5
,
10.6
; fundamentalist,
11.2
,
aft.1
,
aft.2
; survivalist,
12.1

Provence (France)

Providence (Rhode Island)

Prussia,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4

Psammetichus, Pharaoh

Ptolemais

Ptolemid Empire

Punjab (India),
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
10.1
,
10.2

Purchas, Samuel

Purim

Puritans,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
12.1

Purusha (the primoridal “Person”),
2.1
,
2.2

Pyramids, Battle of the

Pyrenees

Qaddafi, Muammar

Qajar shah

Qaynuqa (Jewish tribe)

Qi (China),
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Qin (China),
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Qong Rang (Chinese tribe)

Quakers

Quest of the Holy Grail, The,
228

Qum (Iran),
7.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

Qumran sect

Quran,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
8.1
, 328,
12.1
,
13.1
; defiled by U.S. soldiers,
13.2
; jihad in,
7.5
,
8.2
, 361,
aft.1
(
see also
Greater Jihad
); Muslim empire-building and,
7.1
,
7.6
; principles of justice in,
7.7
,
7.8
,
7.9
,
12.2
; suicide forbidden by,
12.3
,
13.3
; systemic violence condemned by,
7.10
,
12.4
; teaching of,
12.5
,
13.4
; terrorists and,
13.5
,
13.6
,
13.7

Quraysh (Arabian tribe)

Qurayzah (Jewish tribe)

Qutb, Sayyid,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
aft.1

Rabin, Yitzhak,
12.1
,
12.2

Rajagaha (India)

Ram,
11.1
,
12.1

Ramadan, month of,
7.1
,
7.2
,
13.1

Rashtriya Svayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
11.1
,
12.1

Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse

Raymond of Aguilers

Raymond-Roger, Count of Béziers and Carcassonne

Reagan, Ronald,
11.1
,
13.1

rebirth, cycle of (
samsara
)

Reformation
,
itr.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
aft.1

refugees,
4.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
; Afghan,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
; Palestinian,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
13.4

Rehoboam

Reichenau (Carolingian monastery)

Reid, Richard

Reid, Thomas

reigns of terror,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
,
aft.1
,
in France,
10.3
,
10.4
,
aft.2
; in Iran,
11.2

relics, Christian,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

religion, definitions of

Renaissance,
9.1
,
9.2

renouncers,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
6.1
,
12.1
,
aft.1

Resid, Mehmet

Reza Khan,
11.1
,
11.2

Rheims, Council of

Rhine Valley

Rhode Island, colonial,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3

Richard I (the Lionheart), King of England,
8.1
,
8.2

Rida, Rashid

Rigby, Lee

Rig Veda,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4

Rithambra

ritual purification,
itr.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
11.1
,
13.1

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)

Robert of Arbrissel

Robert the Monk

Robespierre, Maximilien de

Roger, Count of Antioch

Roman Catholic Church
,
itr.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
aft.1
,
aft.2
; challenge of chivalric code against,
8.1
; colonialism promoted by,
9.2
; in Croatia,
13.1
; Crusades against Islam of,
see
Crusades
; dissent against, denounced as heresy,
8.2
,
8.3
; First Vatican Council,
11.2
; in France,
8.4
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1
,
10.2
; Holy Roman Empire and,
8.5
; Inquisitions perpetrated by,
see
Inquisition
; in Ireland,
9.5
; in Latin America,
11.3
; Peace and Truce of God inaugurated by,
8.6
; Rule of Faith of,
5.2
; social change and discontent with (
see
Reformation
; Protestantism); in Spain,
9.6
; in United States,
10.3
,
11.4
,
13.2
;
see also names of popes

Roman Empire,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
11.1
; army of,
5.2
,
6.3
,
8.1
; barbarian attacks on,
6.4
; Christians in,
5.3
,
5.4
,
6.5
; Eastern,
see
Byzantine Empire
; fall of,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
; Jews in,
5.5
,
5.6
(
see also
Jesus
)

Romans, ancestors of

Romme, Gilbert

Rong (Chinese tribe)

Rose, Jacqueline

Rouen (France),
5.1
,
8.1

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
10.1
,
10.2

Rovers

Rumi, Jalal ad-Din,
8.1
,
aft.1

Rushdie, Salman

Ruskin, John

Russia,
11.1
,
13.1
; ancient,
1.1
,
1.2
; Communist,
see
Soviet Union
; Mongol invasion of,
8.1
; pogroms in,
10.1

Russian Revolution

Ryan, Leo

Sabbath, Jewish,
5.1
,
5.2

Sabra refugee camp (Lebanon)

Sacred Months, Arabian

sacrificial rituals,
itr.1
; of Aztecs,
9.1
; in China,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
; in India,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
10.1
; in Judaism,
itr.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
; in Roman Empire,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
6.1
,
6.1
,
6.2

Sadat, Anwar,
11.1
,
11.2
,
aft.1
; assassination of,
12.1
,
13.1

Saddam Hussein,
11.1
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
13.2

Sadducees

Safavid Empire,
8.1
,
9.1
,
12.1

sage kings,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Sageman, Marc,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3

Sahadeva

Sahwa (“Awakening”)

Saidi, Ayatollah Riza

Saint Gall, abbey of (Switzerland)

Saketa (India)

Saladin
(Yusuf ibn Ayyub),
8.1
,
12.1

Salah ad-Din,
see
Saladin

Samaria (Israel),
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
5.1
,
5.2

Samson

Samson Agonistes
(Milton)

Samuel

sanghas,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
9.1
,
aft.1

Sanhedrin

Sanskrit,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
,
2.2
n,
66
n,
124,
10.1
,
10.2

Saracens,
8.1
,
8.2

Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Sardinia

Sargon, Akkadian Emperor

Sarpedon

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Sassanians

Satan,
5.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
10.1

Satyarth Prakash
(Dayananda)

Saudi Arabia,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4
,
13.5
,
13.6

Saul, King of Israel,
4.1

Saul of Tarsus,
see
Paul, Saint

SAVAK (Iranian secret police),
11.1
,
11.2

Savarkar, V. D.

Savatthi (India)

Saxony

Scandinavia,
9.1
; ancient,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3

Schauwecker, Franz

Schmalkaldic League

Scopes Trial

Scotland,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1

Sea of Reeds,
4.1
,
5.1

Second World War,
itr.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

Secret Apparatus

secularism,
itr.1
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
; in Algeria,
13.1
,
13.2
; of French Revolution,
10.1
; Founders and,
10.2
,
10.3
; Indian resistance to,
10.4
,
11.2
,
11.3
; in Israel,
11.4
,
11.5
; of Locke,
9.2
,
10.5
; of Luther,
9.3
,
9.4
; minorities impacted by,
10.6
; Muslim response to,
11.6
,
11.7
,
11.8
,
11.9
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
13.3
; nationalism and,
see
nationalism, secular; Palestinian
,
12.4
; papal authority challenged by,
9.5
,
aft.1
; sacred,
7.1
,
7.2
,
12.5
; in United States,
11.10
,
12.6
; violence and,
12.1
,
12.7
,
aft.2
; Zionist,
10.7

sefer torah
(Book of the Law),
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Seleucid Empire

Seljuk Empire,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Semites,
1.1
,
1.2
;
see also
Arabs
;
Jews

Sennacherib, King of Assyria