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The Preaching of Islam

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Aaron, Jacobite Bishop, 87

Abāqā K͟hān, 229

ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz b. Marwān, governor of Egypt, 63, 66

ʻAbd al-Karīm, founder of the kingdom of Wadai, 322

ʻAbd al-Malik, caliph, 63, 66, 81, 313

ʻAbd al-Masīḥ b. Isḥāq al-Kindī, 84–5, 428

ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, 271, 274, 328, 329

ʻAbd al-Raḥīm b. ʻAlī, on forcible conversion to Islam, 421

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, head of the Imperial finances in China, 297

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sāmirī, reputed Hindu king, 265

ʻAbd Allāh, first Muslim king of Baghirmi, 322

ʻAbd Allāh b. Ismāʻīl al-Hāshimī, letter to al-Kindī, 84–5, 428–35

ʻAbd Allāh b. Masʻūd, 15

ʻAbd Allāh b. Maymūn, 211, 213

ʻAbd Allāh b. Yāsīn, 331

Abkhazes, 101

Abū Bakr, caliph, 12, 45

Abu’l-Faraj b. al-Jawzī, 75

Abu’l-Ḥasan Mihyār, converted, 210

Abū Nūḥ al-Anbārī, Christian secretary, 64

Abū Ṭālib, 13–14, 15, 19

Abyssinia, Bilāl, the first-fruits of, 15, 29

Abyssinia, flight to, 15–16

Abyssinia, Islam in, 113–21, 410

Achin. See Atjeh

Adal, Muhammadan Kingdom, 114, 115

Adamaua, 325

Adi, island, 404

Adoptionism, in Spain, 139

Adrianople, 159

Afg͟hāns, conversion to Islam, 217; in Bengal, 279

Africa, Church of North, 121–7, 129–30; Islam in, 102–30, 312–62; Partition of, facilitates spread of Islam, 333, 340, 345–6, 361–2

Ahl al-Kitāb, 207

Aḥmad, Tunjar Arab in Darfur, 322

Aḥmad b. Idrīs, 327

Aḥmad Grāñ, 113, 115–116

Aḥmad Mujaddid, 412

Aḥmad Shanūrāzah, first Muhammadan king of the Maldive Islands, 270

Aḥmad Takūdār. See Takūdār

Aḥmadu Shayk͟hu, 330

Akbar, 259, 262, 292

Ak͟hṭal, court poet, 63

Albanians, 62, 177–92

Alfurs, 390, 393

ʻAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, 12, 13

ʻAlī Mug͟hāyat Shāh, king of Atjeh, 367

Almohad dynasty, 316, 421

Almoravid dynasty, 142–3, 314, 316, 317

Alvar, 138, 142

Amboina, 389

Amīrg͟hāniyyah order, 327

Amiroutzes, George, 160

Ampel, in Java, 381, 383, 384

Ānanda, viceroy of Kan-su, 227, 239

Anjumans in India, 286, 439

Antivari, 177, 180, 187, 188, 189, 191

Arab conquest of Byzantine empire, 54–6; of Egypt, 102; of North Africa, 121, 125–26, 312–13; of Persia, 47–8

Arab conquests, not missionary, 45–7

Arab society in the time of Muḥammad, 31–2, 42–3

Arab traders, as proselytisers, 353 sq. See also Merchants

Arab tribes, conversion of, 32–3, 35–41

Arabic language, adoption of, a possible aid to the spread of Islam, 73, 137–9

Arabs, Christian, converted to Islam, 47–50

Arabs, in Africa:—Abyssinia, 114; East Coast, 340–3; Nubia, 110, 112; Somaliland, 350; Sudan, 320, 321, 322, 331; Uganda, 344;— in China, 294–6, 297, 363; in India, 255, 256, 263–6, 269–273; in Indo-China, 376; in Malay Archipelago, 364–5, 366, 371, 373, 376, 378, 388, 391, 397–8, 401, 404; in Malay Peninsula, 373

Arghons, 293

Arg͟hūn, fourth Īlk͟hān, 232, 239; persecutes Muhammadans, 226

Arianism, in Spain, 134

Armatoli, 62

Armenians, viii. n.1, 96–7, 176, 229

Arslān K͟hān b. Qadr K͟hān, 216

Aru, in Sumatra, 367, 368

Arya Damar, 380, 381, 382

Ashanti, 339

Assam, 282

Athanasius, of Edessa, builds churches, 63, 66

Atjeh, 366, 367, 369, 375, 376, 394

Aurangzeb, 254, 260, 292

Azhar, mosque of al-, 328, 355

Baduwis, in Java, 386

Baʼeda Māryām, king of Abyssinia, 114

Baele tribe, 335

Baganda, Islam among the, 344

Baghirmi, 322–3

Bak͟htiyār K͟hiljī, 277

Balambangan, kingdom in Java, 382

Bālāsāg͟hūn, 216

Bali, island, 384, 404

Balinese, in Lombok, 398–9

Baliyyūn, 113

Baltistan, 292–3

Bambara, 321

Bangalore, 285

Banjarmasin, kingdom in Borneo, 390–1

Bantam, in Java, 385, 386

Banū G͟hassān, 47, 52

Banū Namir, 48, 49

Banū Tag͟hlib, 49–50

Banū Tanūk͟h, 50

Baptism of Muhammadan children, 181, 187

Baraba Tatars, 253

Baraka K͟hān, 223, 224, 227–9, 239, 240

Bashkirs, in Hungary, 193–4; in Russia, 250

Bataks, 369–70, 372

Bāyazīd, Sultan of Turkey, 193

Baybars, Mamlūk Sultan of Egypt, 223, 228, 229

Baydū K͟hān, 232–3

Belgaum, 271

Belloos, 112–13

Bengal, 277–80, 288

Berberah, 350

Berbers, Christianity among, 122; Islam among, 312–16; in the Sudan, 317, 321

Bilāl, 14–15, 29

Bintara, in Java, 383

Bishnois, Hindu sect, 263

Bizzi, Marco, in Albania, 180–3

Bodh Mal, Raja of Majhauli, 262

Bogomiles, 198–200

Bohra sect, 275–7

Bolaäng-Mongondou, in Celebes, 396–8

Borneo, 390–2

Bornu, 320 n.5, 322, 355

Borun tribe, 411

Bosnia, 168, 198–201

Brahmanābād, 272

Brunai, in Borneo, 391

Buckle, on Muslim missionaries, 405

Buddhism in conflict with Islam, 220, 225, 227

Buddhists, converted to Islam, 227, 233, 293, 376, 421

Bugis, in Borneo, 392; in Celebes, 393, 395–6, 397; in Lombok, 398

Bukām, a wealthy Christian, builds churches, 67

Buk͟hārā, conquered by Arabs, 213; sacked by the Mongols, 218; Saljūqs accept Islam here, 216

Bulandshahr, 257, 260

Bulgarians, 242–3

Burāq K͟hān, 235

Byzantine government, 53–5, 72–3; in Africa, 104, 106, 124; in Greece, 147–8

Calvinism and Islam, 155, 162–3

Cambodia, 296 n.3

Canton, 296

Cape Colony, 3, 350–2

Capitation-tax in Albania, 182, 189; in Turkey, 152–4. See Jizyah

Catherine II, 247

Celebes, 392–8

Ceram, 404

Ceylon, Islam in, 266 n.2

Chag͟hatāy, 234

Chalcedon, Council of, 53, 102

Champa, 380

Chams, 296 n.3

Charlemagne, 7, 136, 139

Cheribon, 380, 385

Cherimiss, 250–1

Chermen, 378

Cherumans, 268

China, Islam in, 227, 294–311

Chinese, in Borneo, 392; in Java, 379; in Mindanao, 401 n.2

Chingīz K͟hān, 218, 220, 225, 301

Chittagong, 278

Christian Arabs, converted to Islam, 47–50; in alliance with Muslim Arabs, 47–9, 62; in modern times, 52; persecuted, 50

Christian clergy converted to Islam, 84, 86–7; in Abyssinia, 115; in Egypt, 92; in Spain, 134; in Turkey, 159, 165, 166, 168 n.2, 169

Christian heresies as predisposing to conversion to Islam, 105, 134, 161, 199–200

Christian officials employed by Muhammadan governments, 62–4; in Egypt, 107; in Spain, 135

Christian soldiers in Muhammadan service, during the Crusades, 91, 96; in North Africa, 129–30; in Spain, 135; in Turkey, 62, 151 n.2, 179; exempted from the payment of capitation-tax, 61–2

Christianity, forced conversion to. See Conversion, forced

Christians converted to Islam, in Borneo, 392; in Celebes, 396–8; in India, 269; in Sumatra, 370. See also Christian clergy

Christians prefer Muslim to Christian rule, 155–7; in Byzantine empire, 54–6, 96, 147–8; in Greece under Frankish and Venetian rule, 147; in Hungary, 155; in Spain, 132; in Servia, 194–5; in Transylvania, 155

Christians under Muslim rule, condition of, 49–50, 52, 54–69, 75–84, 95–100, 103–4, 106–9, 121–2, 125–7, 129–44, 146–60, 178–84, 189, 194–7, 203–5, 207, 422. See also D͟himmīs

Churches built in Muhammadan countries, 57 n.5, 65–8, 109, 135, 422 n.2

Chuvash, 251

Circassians, 100–1

Constantine, Tsarevitch of Kakheth, becomes Muslim, 99

Controversies between Christians and Muslims, 83–5, 108, 226, 227 n.4, 436–7

Conversion, forced, to Christianity, in Abyssinia, 114, 116, 119–20; in Amboina, 7–8; in Europe, 7–8, 194; in the Galla country, 348; in the Philippine Islands, 401

Conversion, forced, to Islam, absence of, vindicated by contemporary evidence, 81–2, 157–8, 173–4

Conversion, forced, to Islam, condemned, 5–6, 85 n.4, 158, 421–3

Conversion, forced, to Islam, in Albania, 182, 190; in India, 254, 260–2, 268, 278; in Kashmīr, 292; in Morocco, 126; in Mug͟halistān, 238; in Tunis, 126 n.2; in Turkey, 150, 166, 174

Conversion of Muslims to Christianity, in Crete, 201

Copts, 102–9

Crete, viii. n.1, 201–5

Crimea, Islam in the, 245

Crusaders, 88–92

Cutch, 275, 277

Cyprus, Copts in, accept Islam, 108 n.3; under Venetian rule, 147 n.2

Daghistan, 100

Dahanu, 271

Dahomey, 339

Damascus, 55, 65

Danagla Arabs, 110 n.7

Daniel, Bishop of Khabur, 87

Darfur, 322, 354, 355

Dasavatār, sacred book of the Khojahs, 274

Daylam, 210

Deccan, merchants from the, in the Malay Archipelago, 364

D͟himmīs, 57–61, 66, 75–6, 77 n.6, 83, 207. See also Christians under Muslim Rule, Zoroastrians

Dongola, 110, 327

Doughty, quoted, 347, 413, 416–17

Dudekulas, 267

Dutch, in the Malay Archipelago, 369, 372, 397–8, 405–7

Dutch-speaking Muslims. See Cape Colony

Dyaks, 392

Egypt, Christians under Muslim rule, 102–4, 106–9; churches built, 66–7, 109, 422 n.2

Egypt, Jacobite Christians of. See Copts

Felix, Bishop of Urgel, 139

Fire-temples, in Persia, 209–11

Fīrūz Shāh Tug͟hlaq, 258

Flores, 396

Fulbe, condition in eighteenth century, 323–4; in nineteenth century, 325; destroy Hausa records, 319; missionary activity, 333, 353–4; on West Coast of Africa, 340

Fūnj, empire of the, 111, 113, 337

Futah-Jallon, 328, 330

Gabriel, Christian physician of Hārūn al-Rashīd, 64

Gabriel, Metropolitan of Fārs, 86

Gallas, 348–9; in Abyssinia, 116–17, 347

Galley-slaves, 173

Gennadios, Patriarch of Constantinople, 146

George, Bishop of Baḥrayn, 86

Georgians, 97–100, 165 n.1

Gerganos, 164

German East Africa, 345–6, 410

G͟hāzān, 232–4, 421

Gilolo, 390

Giri, 382

Gold Coast, 339

Golden Horde, 220, 227, 239

Gowa, in Celebes, 393, 395

Grāñ. See Aḥmad Grāñ

Greece, the first-fruits of, Ṣuhayb, 26, 29

Greek Christians exempted from payment of capitation-tax, 62

Greek Church, attempt to Calvinise the, 161–4; under Byzantine rule in fifteenth century, 159; under Turkish rule in seventeenth century, 167, 169; in Bosnia, 168; in Crete, under Venetian rule, 203; in Servia, 196

Greeks, in the Crimea, 245; under Turkish rule, 145–55, 160

Gresik, 378, 379, 381, 382, 389

Grodno, Muslims in, 3

Guinea Coast, 338–9

Gujarāt, spread of Islam in, 275–7

Gulbarga, 271

Hādī, caliph, 84

Ḥafṣ b. al-Walīd, governor of Egypt, and the Christians, 103–4

Ḥājī Purwa, 378

Ḥājīs, and missionary activity, 416; in Africa, 330, 354; in the Malay Archipelago, 405–6; in Java, 377; in Sambawa, 398; in Sumatra, 369, 370, 371

Ḥājj ʻUmar, 330, 332, 333

Ḥākim, 8, 422

Halemahera, 390

Harar, 335, 350

Hardatta, 257

Hārūn al-Rashīd, 64, 84; oppresses the Christians, 76; permits erection of churches, 67

Hausas, 319–20, 321, 325; as proselytisers, 320, 333, 339; on West Coast of Africa, 340

Ḥaydar ʻAlī, 254, 261, 268

Hayton, king of Armenia, 221, 229

Heraclius, 28, 48, 53–4, 70 n.3, 207

Hinduism and Islam, in India, 254–91; in Java, 384–6

Ḥīrah, 50

Hishām, caliph, 295

Hottentots, 351

Hui Hui, 295

Hūlāgū, 221, 228, 229, 240

Hungary, Calvinists of, 155; Muslims in, 160 n.1, 193–4

Hunyady, John, 193, 195

Ibn Ḥanbal, 74

Ibn K͟hūrdādbih, 211

Ibn Tūmart, 316

Ibrāhīm, Christian, in charge of Bayt al-Māl, 63

Ibrāhīm I, Sultan of Turkey, 423

Idaans, tribe in Borneo, 391–2

Ijebu country, South Nigeria, 326

Īlik-K͟hāns, dynasty, 215, 216

Īlk͟hān dynasty, 223, 226, 229–34

Ilorin, 325

India, 212, 254–91, 439; Islam introduced into Malay Archipelago from, 364

Indo-China, Islam in, 376

Intolerance condemned, 209. See also Forced conversion, to Islam, condemned

Ishōʻ-yabh III, Nestorian Patriarch, 81

Islam, brotherhood of, 42–3, 75,340, 356, 357, 416

Islam, causes of spread of, 413–26; in Africa, 353–8, 362; in Albania, 182, 184, 190; in Arabia, 35, 41; in Bosnia, 200; in Egypt, 94, 105–6, 108–9; in India, 279, 287–91; in the Malay Archipelago, 365, 400, 405, 407; in Spain, 132; in Turkey, 157–8, 160, 166, 172–5; under the Umayyads and ʻAbbāsids, 70–5, 79 n.1

Islam, a missionary religion, 1, 11, 29, 42–4, 409

Islam, ritualism of, 417–19

Islam, a universal religion, 28–30

Ismāʻīl b. ʻAbd Allāh, governor of North Africa, 314

Ismāʻīlian missionaries, 211–13; in India, 212, 274–6; in Kashmīr, 291

Israel, Christian official, 64

Jacobite Church, in Abyssinia, 113–21; in Egypt, 69, 102–9; in Nubia, 109–13; in Persia, 69, 81–2, 207; recent statistics, 80

Jacobus Manopo, first Christian king of Bolaäng-Mongondou, 396

Jacobus Manuel Manopo, first Muslim king of Bolaäng-Mongondou, 397

Jag͟habūb, 334, 335

Jains converted to Islam, 271

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Shāh, king of Bengal, 278

Jamāl al-Dīn, first Muslim king of Tidor, 388

James II, king of England, invited to embrace Islam, 409 n.3

Janissaries, corps of, 150–1, 167

Jarrāḥ b. ʻAbd Allāh, governor of K͟hurāsān, 83

Jatmall, becomes a Muhammadan, 277–8

Java, 364, 377–87

Jāwej, Abyssinian chief, 118

Jenne, 318

Jerusalem, 59, 90

Jews, attempt the conversion of the Russians, 243; forced to become Muslims, 421; in China, 305; in Medina, 20, 26; in Spain, welcome Arabs, 132; Spanish, take refuge in Turkey, 156

Jihād, in Africa, 329, 331–3, 353; in Sumatra, 372

Jizyah, tribute paid by non-Muslim subjects, 59–62, 103–4, 115, 207, 432; paid also by newly-converted Muslims, 60, 83, 103 n.5; —exemption granted to, Banū Tag͟hlib, 49; newly-converted Muslims, 103–4, 258; Christian troops in Muslim service, 61–2; —rates, 60; in Jerusalem, 57; in Nubia, 110; in Spain, 134. See also Capitation-tax

John, king of Abyssinia, 119, 120

Joseph, Metropolitan of Merv, 84, 86 n.7

Joshua, Jacobite Patriarch, 86 n.6

Jukun tribe, 337

Justinian, 52, 72, 102 n.1, 123

Justus Stevenius, 93

Kabils, of Algeria, 127–9

Kābul, 217

Kanem, 320

Kano, 319 n.6, 320

Kan-su, 302, 306, 309, 310

Karamurtads, in Albania, 192

Karīm b. Shahriyār, 210

Kāshgar, Islam in, 215, 235, 238

Kashmīr, 291–2

Kastriota, George, 177

Katsena, 320

Kazaks, 238

Kazan, 247–9, 252, 411

Kei Islands, 404

K͟hadījah, 12, 18

K͟hālid al-Qasrī, erects a church, 67

K͟hālid b. al-Walīd, 46; at Ḥīrah, 50–1; Afghan legend concerning, 217

K͟harāj, 83

K͟hazars, 243

K͟hiljīs, Islam under the, 257–8

Khīva, 214, 246

Khojah sect, 274–5

Khokand, 246

Khotan, 216, 238, 296 n.3

K͟hurāsān, conversion of Christians of, 81–2

Kʼien Lung, emperor of China, 304, 305

Kiloa, 340, 342

Kindī. See ʻAbd al-Masīḥ b. Isḥāq al-Kindī

Kirghiz, 238, 245–7, 253

Kocch tribe, converted to Islam, 288

Kordofan, 320, 327

Kovno, Muslims in, 3

Kritopoulos, Metrophanes, on tribute of Christian children, 150 n.2, 151

Kūchum K͟hān, 252

Kufra, 334 n.2

Kurguz, Buddhist governor of Persia, becomes Muslim, 227

Kuyūk K͟hān, treatment of Christians, 221, 225; of Muhammadans, 225–6

Laccadive Islands, 270

Ladakh, 292–3

Lagos, 340

Lambri, in Sumatra, 368

Lampong districts, 371

Lamṭūna clan, 315, 317

Lefroy, Bishop, on causes of spread of Islam, 414–15; on Islam in India, 259; on Muslim public prayer, 418 n.2

Lhasa, Muhammadans in, 293

Liberia, 338

Lithuania, Islam in, 3, 245

Lohānas, conversion of, 274

Lombok, 398

Louis VII. See St. Louis

Lucaris, Cyril, Patriarch of Constantinople, 161–4

Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch, 156

Macassar, kingdom in Celebes, 393, 395–6

Madagascar, 352

Madāyi, 265

Madura, 382, 404

Magellan, 387, 388

Mahdī, caliph, 50, 67, 78

Mahdī Purāṇa, 212

Maḥmūd of Ghazna, 254, 256, 257

Maimonides, Moses, 421

Majapahit, 379, 380–4, 390, 391 n.4

Malabar, 261–9, 364, 366 n.4

Malacca, 372, 401

Malay Archipelago, 363–72, 377–407

Malay Peninsula, 372–6

Malays, in Cape Colony, 350

Maldive Islands, 270

Malik al-Z̤āhir, king of Samudra, 368

Malik b. al-Walīd, Christian official, 64

Maʼmūn, caliph, reign of, 78, 84, 85, 217; permits erection of churches, 67; interview with his uncle, Ibrāhīm, 358

Mandingos, 319, 331, 354; as Muslim missionaries, 319, 321, 353; on West Coast of Africa, 338, 340; still pagan, 337

Mangū K͟hān, 222

Manila, 402

Manṣūr, caliph, 75, 296

Mappillas, 263–4

Marabouts, 317, 354

Mark bar Qīqī, Jacobite Metropolitan, 86

Marriages of Christian women to Muhammadans, 136 n.3, 181, 186

Martyrs, Muslim, 14–15, 38, 224

Marwān, caliph, quoted, 8

Mecca, Arabs from, in the Malay Archipelago, 367, 375, 391; pilgrimage to, 415–16; religious centre of the Muslim world, 27. See also Ḥājīs.

Medina, 19–26, 31–2, 34–5

Melle, 319, 321

Menangkabau, kingdom of, 368–9, 372

Menelik, emperor of Abyssinia, 120, 350

Merāts, 287

Merchants, Muslim, as missionaries, 409, 419; among the Mongols, 228; in Africa, 118, 320, 333, 337, 339, 348, 353, 362; in India, 264, 273; in the Malay Archipelago, 365, 377, 387–8, 396, 403, 404; in Siberia, 252

Merv, conversion of Christians of, 81–2

Metaras, Nicodemus, 164

Minahassa, 393

Mindanao, 399–401

Ming dynasty, 299

Minnat al-Islām Sabhā, 269

Mirdites, 62, 179 n.2, 192

Misool, island, 402, 403 n.3

Missionaries, Muslim:— ʻAbd Allāh, al-Yamanī, 275 ʻAbd Allāh, Shayk͟h, 373–5 ʻAbd Allāh ʻĀrif, 366 ʻAbd Allāh b. Yāsīn, 315 ʻAbd al-Razzāq, 266–7 Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad, 113–14 Abū ʻAlī Qalandar, 282 Abū Bakr, 401 Abū Ṣaydā, 214 Abu’l-Faraj b. al-Jawzī, 75 Abu’l-Naṣr Sāmānī, 215 ʻAmr b. Mālik, 40 ʻAmr b. Murrah, 36–7 ʻAyyāsh b. Abī Rabīʻah, 39 Bahā al-Dīn Zakariyyā, 281 Bahā al-Ḥaqq, 281 Baqā Ḥusayn K͟hān, 283, 439 Bulbul Shāh, 292 Burhān al-Dīn, 366 Ḍaḥḥāk b. Sufyān, 40 Danfodio. See ʻUt͟hmān Danfodio Darvīsh Manṣūr, 100 Datu Mullā Ḥusayn, 388–9 Dāwal Shāh Pīr, 277 Ḍimām b. T͟haʻlabah, 35–6 Fak͟hr al-Dīn, 267–8 Faraḥ ʻAlī, 101 Farīd al-Dīn, 281 Ḥājī Muḥammad, 283 Ḥakīm Bagus, 397 Ḥasan al-Dīn, 385 Ḥasan ʻAlī, 283 Ḥasan b. ʻAlī, 210 Ḥasan Kabīr al-Dīn, 282 Ḥāshim Pīr Gujarātī, 271 Ibn Ḥanbal, 74 Ibrāhīm Abū Zarbay, 350 Imām Dikir, 404 Imām Shāh, 277 Imām Tuwéko, 397 Isḥāq, 382 Isḥāq Walī, 238 Ismāʻīl, Shayk͟h, 367–8 Jalāl al-Dīn Tabrīzī, 280 Jamāl al-Dīn, 235–6 Jumāda ʻl-Kubrạ̄, 381 K͟halīfah Ḥusayn, Shayk͟h, 382 K͟haṭīb Tungal, 395 Khunmir Ḥusaynī, 271 Mahābīr Khamdāyat, 271 Malik ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, 277 Mālik b. Dīnār, 264–5 Mālik b. Ḥabīb, 264–5 Malik Ibrāhīm, 378–9 Manṣūr, Shayk͟h, 388 Minak Kamala Bumi, 371 Muḥammad b. ʻAbd al-Karīm b. Muḥammad al-Majīlī, 320 Muḥammad b. al-Huzayl, 74 n.3 Muḥammad ʻUbayd Allāh, 284–5 Muḥammad ʻUt͟hmān al-Amīr G͟hanī, 327 Muʻīn al-Dīn Chishtī, 281 Mullā ʻAlī, 275–6 Mumba Mulyaya, 270 Muṣʻab b. ʻUmayr, 15–16, 22–5 Nāṣir al-Ḥaqq Abū Muḥammad, 210 Nūr al-Dīn, 275 Nūr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, 385 Nūr Satāgar, 275 Pati Putah, 389 Rashīd al-Dīn, 236–7 Ṣadr al-Dīn, 274–5 Sayyid Aḥmad Kabīr, 282 Sayyid ʻAlī Hamadānī, 292 Sayyid Ismāʻīl, 280 Sayyid Jalāl al-Dīn, 281–2 Sayyid Muḥammad b. Sayyid ʻAlī, 271 Sayyid Muḥammad Gīsūdarāz, 271 Sayyid Nathar Shāh, 267, 268 Sayyid Ṣadr al-Dīn, 282 Sayyid Safdar ʻAlī, 283 Sayyid Shāh Farīd al-Dīn, 292 Sayyid ʻUmar ʻAydrūs Basheban, 271 Sayyid Yūsuf al-Dīn, 274 Shāh al-Ḥamīd, 267 Shāh Muḥammad Ṣādiq Sarmast Ḥusaynī, 271 Shams al-Dīn, Mīr, 292 Sharaf b. Mālik, 264 Sharīf Kabungsuwan, 399 Sharīf Karīm al-Mak͟hdūm, 401 Sīdī ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 373 Tufayl b. ʻAmr, 37–8 ʻUmaru Kaba, 321 ʻUrwah b. Masʻūd, 38 ʻUt͟hmān Danfodio, 323–5 Wāt͟hilah b. al-Asqaʻ, 40 Yūsuf Shams al-Dīn, 270

Missionaries, Muslim, from Bag͟hdād, in India, 271, 274; from Buk͟hārā, in India, 280, 281; among the Mongols, 228, 235–6; in Siberia, 252; from Persia, in India, 270, 280–2, 292. See also Merchants, Prisoners, Women, as missionaries

Missionary activity, Muslim, character of, 408–9; enjoined in the Qurʼān, 3–4, 409; in times of political weakness, 2, 144, 225, 239, 397, 400

Missionary efforts, unsuccessful Muslim, in Arabia, 34–5, 40; in Africa, 325–6; in India, 266–7; in Java, 378; among the Mongols, 240; among the Papuans, 403; among the Russians, 242–3

Missionary religion, defined, 1

Missionary Societies, Muslim, 438–9

Moluccas, 387–90

Mongols, conquests, 218–19, 225; converted to Christianity, 221; converted to Islam, 227–30, 232–7, in China, 297 sq.; in Georgia, 97–8; persecute the Muhammadans, 225–6, 234; primitive religion, 220; relations with Christian princes, 222, 229. See also Tatars

Monotheletism, 53, 124

Montenegro, 197–8

Moral superiority of Muslims, in Abyssinia, 117; in Spain, 133; in Turkey, 171

Moriscoes, 143–4

Morocco, Christians in, 126, 127 n.3

Moses Maimonides, 421

Muʻāwiyah, employed Christians, 63; revenue of Egypt in reign of, 103

Mubārak Shāh, 235

Mug͟halistān, 238

Muḥammad, 11–43, 47–8

Muḥammad II, Sultan of Turkey, 145–6, 176; in Bosnia, 198–9

Muḥammad b. al-Huzayl, 74 n.3

Muḥammad b. ʻAlī al-Sanūsī, 334

Muḥammad b. Qāsim, 256 n.2, 272

Muḥammad K͟hān, K͟hān of Mug͟halistān, 237–8

Muḥammad K͟hudābandah, 234

Muḥammad Shāh, Sultan of Malacca, 372–3, 401

Muhammadan martyrs, 14–15, 38, 224

Muhammadan officials and soldiers of Christian governments, as propagandists of Islam, in Africa, 326, 333, 345–6, 362; in the Malay Archipelago, 369, 399, 407

Muhammadans observe Christian rites, in Albania, 181, 187

Muhammadans under Christian rule in Abyssinia, 114, 115, 117–21, 410; Cape Colony, 350–2; Crete, 201; Egypt, 424, 438–9; German East Africa, 326, 345–6, 361–2, 410; Hungary, 193–4; India, 280, 282–91, 439; Lagos, 340; Lithuania, 245; Malay Archipelago, 369–70, 371–2, 387, 393, 397–8, 399, 400–2, 405–7; Montenegro, 197–8; Nigeria, 325, 326; Nubia, 110; Russian empire, 100, 101, 247–51, 252–3, 411; Spain, 140, 143–4

Mukkuvans, 268

Multan, 272, 273

Muqtadir, caliph, 75, 77, 422 n.2

Murād II, Sultan of Turkey, 148–9

Murshid Qulī K͟hān, 278

Mustaḍī, caliph, 68

Muʻtadid, caliph, 64

Muʻtaṣim, caliph, reign of, 209, 214, 272; employs Christian officials, 63; sends ambassadors to Nubia, 109

Mutawakkil, caliph, fanatical measures, 8, 75, 76–7, 420 n.1; orders recently constructed churches to be destroyed, 66

Muʻtazilites, 74–5, 77

Mutesa, king of Uganda, 438

Muwallads, in Spain, 139

Muzarabes, 137, 138

Nafīsah, 411

Najm al-Dīn Muk͟htār al-Zāhidī, 227 n.1

Naqshbandiyyah order, 239, 407 n.2

Nasik, 271, 284

Naṣr b. Hārūn, Christian official, 64

Nestorian Church, under Muslim rule, 68, 77, 80, 81–2, 86

Nestorians among the Mongols, 221–2

New Guinea, 402–3

Niʻmat Allāh, Jacobite Patriarch, 86 n.2

Noanta, Christians of, become Muslims, 168–9

Nogais, 240

Nubia, 109–13, 337

Nubians join Amīrg͟haniyyah order, 327

Nūr al-Dīn, al-K͟hwārazmī, maltreated at court of Kuyūk, 225–6

Nyasaland, 346

Onin, peninsula of New Guinea, 403

Org͟hana, wife of Qarā-Hūlāgū, 234–5

Ottoman Turks, administration, 146–9; conquests, 145, 171, 177, 192–3, 198–9, 201; moral qualities, 169–71, 172; oppression, 154–5; proselytising zeal, 158, 159 n.1; taxation, 149–54; toleration, 155–8, 194–5

Padrīs, in Sumatra, 369, 372

Pahlavān, saint of Khīva, 214

Pajajaran, kingdom in Java, 378, 385–6

Palembang, 371, 381, 391

Panjāb, 280–3, 286–7

Papuans, 402–4

Parlāk, kingdom in Sumatra, 367–8

Paulician heresy, 96, 161

Pechenegs, 412

Penukonda, 268

Persecution forbidden in the Qurʼān, 5–6

Persecution of Christians by Muslims, 75–9, 420 n.1; Banū Tanūk͟h, 50; in Albania, 183, 189; in Armenia, 97; in Egypt, 106–7; in Georgia, 98–100; in North Africa, 126; in Persia, 232; in Samarqand, 224; in Spain, 142–3; in Turkey, 150, 154

Persecution of Christians by their co-religionists, in Bosnia, 168; in Crete, 203; in Cyprus, 108 n.3; in Egypt, 69, 102, 106 n.3; in France, 136; in Hungary, 155; in Persia, 68–9; in Russia, 156; in Servia, 196; in Transylvania, 155; in Turkey, 167

Persecution of Muslims, by the Mongols, 225–6, 234; by the Russians, 247

Persia, heretical movements in the Christian Church in, 69–70, 206, 209

Persia, spread of Islam in, 207–11, 229 sq.

Persian convert, first, 29

Persians, in China, 297, 298; in Indo-China, 376; in Sumatra, 364

Peter, Metropolitan of Russian Church, 241–2

Philippine Islands, 390, 399–402

Philoxenos, Jacobite Bishop, 86

Pilgrims to Mecca. See Ḥājīs

Pīrāna, 277

Pīrs, as missionaries, in India, 271, 274–5, 277; under the Mongols, 239

Poles, Catholic, under Russian rule, 156

Polish-speaking Muslims, 3

Ponnani, 269

Pope Gregory II, 125

Pope Gregory VII, 127, 130 n.

Pope Gregory IX, 130 n.4

Pope Hadrian I, 133 n.5, 136 n.3

Pope Innocent III, 130 n.4

Pope Innocent IV, 130 n.4, 198 n.2, 221

Pope John XXII, 198, 242

Pope Leo III, 139

Pope Leo IX, 126

Portuguese, in Abyssinia, 116; on East Coast of Africa, 340, 343; in India, 266; in the Malay Archipelago, 388, 389, 390, 393, 394

Prayer, Muslim public, impressiveness of, 417–19

Prisoners, Muslim, as Missionaries, 411–12

Pul. See Fulbe

Qādir, caliph, 86

Qādiriyyah order, 127, 328–9, 330, 332, 333, 407 n.2

Qastīliyyah, Christians in, 129

Quarquar, Vaivode of Samtskheth, becomes a Muslim, 165 n.1

Qūbīlāy K͟hān, 220, 225, 232, 298

Queda, 373–5

Qutaybah b. Muslim, 213, 295

Raden Ḥusayn, 382–4

Raden Paku, 382–3

Raden Patah, 380, 382–3

Raden Raḥmat, 380–3

Rainaud, 88

Rajputs, converted to Islam, 259, 260, 281; Muhammadan influences among, 289

Ras ʻAlī, vice-regent of Abyssinia, 118–19

Rationalism in Islam, 73–4

Ravuttans, 267

Raymund III, Count of Tripoli, 91

Religious orders, influence of the, 239, 326–35, 408

Ricoldus de Monte Crucis, on the virtues of the Saracens, 425

Robert of St. Albans, 91

Rubruck, William of, embassy to Mongol K͟hāqān, 222

Rumanians, Southern, 62, 168–9

Russia, Mongols in, 239 sqq. See also Tatars

Russian rule, Muslims under, 101, 246–53

Russians under Muslim rule, 240–4

Rustam, first Muhammadan king of Karthli, 99

Saʻd b. Abī Waqqāṣ, 13

Saʻd b. Muʻad͟h, conversion of, 23–4

Ṣadr al-Dīn, first Muhammadan king of Kashmīr, 292

Saffāḥ, caliph, 104

Saʻīd b. Ḥasan, on Muslim public prayer, 417–8

Saifa Arʻād, king of Abyssinia, 114

St. Augustine, on motives of conversion to Christianity, 423

St. John of Damascus, 83

St. Louis, crusade of, 88, 92; embassy to the Mongol K͟hāqān, 222; receives Mongol embassy, 229; on the treatment of infidels, 8

Saints, Muslim, worshipped by Hindus, 289 n.3

Saladin, and the Crusaders, 90–1, 425; Christians in Egypt, under rule of, 107, 421

Salawatti, island, 403

Salīm I, Sultan of Turkey, 423

Saljūq Turks, 88, 96, 216

Salmān, the first Persian convert, 29

Salmūyah, Christian, in service of the caliph al-Muʻtaṣim, 63

Sāmān becomes Muslim, 210

Samarqand, Chinese embassy in, 299; Chinese workmen in, 297 n.4; introduction of Islam, 213, 214; under the Mongols, 223–4

Sambawa, 398

Samory, 331, 332 n.3, 333

Samsams, 376

Samudra, 364, 367, 368

Ṣamudu, 331–2

Sanūsiyyah order, in Africa, 334–5, 410; in the Malay Archipelago, 407

Sasaks, in Lombok, 398–9

Sāsānid dynasty, Christian Church, under, 68–9, 206–7

Sātūq Bug͟hrā K͟hān, 215–16

Sawo-Teheno, king of Kafa, becomes a Muhammadan, 120

Sayyid ʻAlī Akbar, Muhammadan merchant in Peking, 302, 311 n.1

Sayyid Ajall, 297–8

Sayyid Ashraf al-Dīn, 223–4

Sayyid Sulaymān, Chinese Muslim, 307, 309, 311

Scanderbeg, 177

Sciataraccio, tax, 182, 189

Scutari, 184

Senegal, 315, 330, 333

Sennaar, 110, 113, 337

Servia, 192–7

Shāfiʻiyyah sect, in Malay Archipelago, 364

Shāh Ruk͟h Bahādur, 266, 299

Shamanism, 220, 240, 246

Shanars, become Muslims, 289

Sharīf al-Riḍā, 210

Shayk͟h Jalāl al-Dīn Tabrīzī, 282

Shayk͟h Yūsuf, 350 n.6

Shīʻahs, in Africa, 341; in India, 274–6; in Kashmīr, 292; in Java and Sumatra, 364; in Persia, 209, 211; in Turkey, 423

Shihāb family, in Mount Lebanon, 176–7

Siam, Islam in, 376

Siberia, 251–3

Sierra Leone, 338

Silhaṭ, 282

Sind, 272–5

Sindān, 272

Slavery, under the Muslims, 416–17; under the Turks, 172–6

Slave-trade, suppression of, facilitates spread of Islam, 345–6

Slave-traders, not propagandists of Islam, 343–4

Soba, mosque built in, 110

Sokoto, 325

Somalis, 349–50

Songhay kingdom, 318, 321

Sophronius, Metropolitan of Athens, 164

Spain, Islam in, 131–44

Spaniards, in the Malay Archipelago, 387, 388, 390, 400–1, 402

Spanish Muslims, missionary activity of, 127

Sudan, 317–37, 353–62

Ṣuhayb, the first-fruits of Greece, 26, 29

Sukadana, kingdom in Borneo, 391

Sulu Islands, 401–2

Sumatra, 364, 366–72

Survivals of Christian usages among Muhammadans, 129 n.2, 181, 187, 197

Swahilis, as propagandists of Islam, 345

Sword of Islam, 5, 8, 46, 85 n.4, 256, 405

Tabaristān, 210

Ṭāʼif, 19, 38

Takūdār, first Muslim Īlk͟hān, 229–32, 238–9

Tallo, in Celebes, 395

Tʼang dynasty, 294, 297

Ṭarmāshīrīn K͟hān, 235, 239

Tartars. See Tatars

Tatars, in Lithuania, 3, 245; in Russia, 244–5, 247–51; in Siberia, 251–3

Ternate, 388–90

Theodisclus, Archbishop of Seville, adopts Islam, 134

Theodore Abū Qurrah, 84

Theodore, Nestorian Bishop, 86

Tibesti, 335

Tibet, 293

Tidor, 388

Tijāniyyah order, 325, 328–30, 333

Tilok Chand, 259–60

Timbuktu, 318–19, 328

Timotheus, Nestorian Patriarch, 67, 84

Tīmūr, 256, 292

Tinnevelli, 288

Tīpū Sulṭān, 8, 254, 261–2, 268

Tiyans, 268

Toleration enjoined upon Muslims, 5–6, 77 n.6, 420

Toleration towards the Christians, in Egypt, 102–3; in K͟hurāsān, 82; in North Africa, 130; in Russia, 241–2; in Spain, 135, 143–4; in Syria and Palestine, 56–7, 95; in Turkey, 146–7, 156–7, 178–9, 191

Tosks in Southern Albania, 192

Traders, Muslim. See Merchants

Tribute of Christian children, 150–2, 155

Trichinopoly, 267, 268

Tūbū, 410

Tunis, 129–30

Tūqluq Tīmūr K͟hān, king of Kāshgar, 235–7

Turkistan, 215, 216

Turks, converted to Islam, 214–16; in China, 297, 298, 304, 310; in the Mongol armies, 226 n.3. See also Ottoman Turks, Saljūq Turks

Uch, 281

Uganda, 344

Uljāytū, 234

ʻUmar b. ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, and Egypt, 103; and North Africa, 314; and Sind, 272; and Transoxania, 214; orders recently-constructed churches to be destroyed, 66; prayed for by Christian historian, 424; revenue of Egypt, in reign of, 103; zeal for Islam, 82–3

ʻUmar b. al-K͟haṭṭāb, and the Banū Tag͟hlib, 49; conversion of, 17; ordinance of, 57–8, 76; and the propagation of Islam, 51, 81, 82–3; submission of Jerusalem, 56–7

ʻUmar b. Yūsuf, Christian governor of Anbar, 64

ʻUmar Shams al-Dīn. See Sayyid Ajall

Urkhān, 149, 150

Usāma b. Munqid͟h, 90

Usambara, 346

Usayd b. Ḥuḍayr, conversion of, 23

ʻUsayfān, 273

ʻUt͟hmān, conversion, 13; relations with China, 295; revenue of Egypt, in reign of, 103

Ūzbek K͟hān, 240–2

Ūzbeks, 240

Venetians, in Albania, 188–9; in Crete, 201–3; in the Levant, 147

Vilno, Muslims in, 3

Vladimir, 242–4

Votiaks, 249

Wadai, 322, 335, 355

Wahhābī reformation, influence of, 426; in Africa, 323; in Bengal, 280; in Sumatra, 372

Waigama, island, 402

Waigyu, island, 402

Wakhtang VI, king of Georgia, 100

Walīd, caliph, 66

Women, Muslim, as missionaries, 120, 234 n.1, 410–11

Yaʻqūb b. Layt͟h, 217

Yārkand, 238

Yat͟hrib. See Medina

Yazdānbak͟ht, 85

Yazīd II, caliph, 66–7

Yoruba country, 325

Yung Chen, edict of, 303

Yunnan, 293, 298

Zamorin of Calicut, 265–6

Zanj, Islam among the, 342–3

Zanzibar, 342

Zaylaʻ, 349

Zayn al-ʻAbidīn, first Muhammadan king of Batjan, 403 n.1

Zmaievich, in Albania, 185–91

Zoroastrians, 206–11

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