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Rusāfa
 
Rustam, Persian general
 
Rustam, legendary hero
 
Ruzbān
 
Rūzbih b. Buzurgmihr
 
 
 
Sabra
 
Sa
c
d b. Abī Waqqās
 
Sa
c
id al-Harashī
 
Sa
c
id Khudhayna
 
Sa
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
 
shipbuilding
 
Shiraz
 
Shīrzād
 
Shiz
 
Shūmān
 
Sicily
 
Sidi Okba;
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
 
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
 
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
 
Wadi Maskiyāna, battle of
 
Wadi Natrun
 
Wāj al-Rūdh
 
Wakī al-Tamīmī
 
Walīd I, Umayyad caliph
 
Walīd II, Umayyad caliph
 
Walīla
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.
 
b
Kisra, the Arabic form of Chosroes, was the generic name given to Persian kings.
 
c
Rib
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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