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Aaron 37
‘Abd-al-Malik 22
‘Abdullāh ibn-al-Mahdi 38
‘Abdullāh al-Tanūkhi 52, 53, 71
Acre 15
al-Aghāni 42
Ajāwīd 42
‘Ali 20, 27, 28, 30, 36, 37, 47
‘Ali-Ilāhi 28
Allah 40, 47, 48, 59-63, 71, 72, 74
American University of Beirūt 3
Aramaisms 17
Armenians 41
Asās (minor prophet) 37
Aṣḥāb al-Tanāsukh 45
al-Asrār, epistle 49
Assyria 1
‘Ayn-Dārah 8
Babylonia 39
Baghdād 29
Bahā’-al-Dīn, al-Muqtana 11, 12, 20, 30, 34, 35, 38, 45, 49, 53, 68
Bahā’i 30
Bahā’is 48
Bahā’ism 30
al-Balādhuri 22
Barham Amavand 32
Bar-Hebraeus 26
Bashan 2
Bayṣūr 9
Bektāshis 15
Belfort (Qal‘at al-Shaqīf) 2
Benjamin of Tudela 13, 14, 47, 52
Blavatsky, Madame 24
Blochet, E. 32
Brahman 46
"Brethren of Purity" (Ikhwān al-Ṣafa) 33, 35, 36
Browne, E. G. 41
Browning 31
Buddhism 41
Casanova, Paul 49
China 46
Christian 4
Christianity 3, 38, 39, 41, 48, 50, 68
Churchill, Col. 50
pseudo-Clementines 35
Commander of the Believers 59-62
Commandeurs du Liban 16
Conder, Lt.-Col. 50
Constantine I 66
Constantine II 66
Copts 29
Cuthites 15
Cyrus 17
Daniel 37
Darazi 12, 18, 19, 40, 50, 53, 54
Dayr-al-Qamar 9
Derusaiaioi 17
"Disappearance," see ghaybah
Dissimulation, see taqiyyah
Djevīd Bey 48
Docetae 39
Dog River 9
Domneh Jews 48
Dreux, comte de 15
Druids 16
Druzes 1-3, 5, 6, 8-11, 13-18, 20-22, 24, 28-30, 38, 41, 45-49, 52-54
Druzes Réunis 16
Druzism 3, 4, 7, 18, 19, 22, 25, 27, 30, 39, 40, 41, 51
Dussaud 16
Edessa 2
Elijah 31
Encyclopaedia Britannica 17
Encyclopaedia of Islam 13-14, 44, 54
Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics 35
Enoch 37
Esarhaddon 15
Essenes 19
Evangile 66
Fakhr-al-Dīn ibn-Ma‘n 2, 6, 7, 16, 21
Fāṭimite Caliphate 30
Fāṭimite dynasty 20
Fayṭus, son of Qīlāṭūs 64
Florence 2
Florentines 7
France 16
Freemasonry 15
Garrett, Robert 25
Genesis 39
Gharb 5
ghaybah ("disappearance") 31, 67
Gibbon 27
God 29, 30, 33-36, 41, 47, 50, 64, 73
Godfrey of Bouillon 16
Gnostic 21
Goldziher, Ignacz 26, 29, 32, 42
al-Hā'iṭiyyah 45
halālīj, ihlilīj 20
al-Ḥallāj 29
al-Ḥakīm 11, 12, 18, 19, 25-31, 33, 34, 41, 46, 49, 50, 57-61
Ḥamāh 3
Ḥamzah 11, 12, 19, 20, 29, 34, 35, 40, 41, 44, 45, 49-53, 58
Ḥārith ibn-Tarmāḥ 36
Ḥāṣbayya 9
d’Hautpoul, Beaufort 9
Ḥaydar, al-Amīr 21
Herodotus 17
al-Ḥimyari, al-Sayyid 45
Hindoos 15
Hiram, King 16
Hittites 15
Hivites 15
Holy Sepulchre 26
Ḥudūd (bounds, precepts) 34
Ḥujjah 37
al-Ḥulūliyyah 28
al-Ḥusayn ibn-Muḥammad 38
Ikhwān al-Ṣafa. See "Brethren of Unity"
‘Imād 22
al-‘Imādiyyah 22
India 3
‘Irāqi 33
‘Īsa ibn-Yūsuf. See Jesus
al-Isḥāqi 13
Ismā‘il ibn-Muḥammad 38
Ismā'īliyyah 3, 25, 27, 30-32, 37, 38, 40, 42
Islam 3, 6, 7, 25, 26, 28, 29, 39-42, 47, 48, 50, 52, 59
Ituraeans 14
Jabriyyah 47
al-Jāḥiẓ 42
Janizaries 6
Japanese 14
Jerusalem 26
Jesus (‘Isā ibn-Yūsuf) 37, 39, 64-67
John the Evangelist 68
Juhhāl (uninitiate) 42
Junblāṭs 22
Kafra 10
Kasrawān 6
al-Kaysāniyyah 45
khalwah (place of seclusion) 49
khalwahs 53
Khandy (Ceylon) 47
ibn-Khallikān 26
Khārijites 48
Khurāsān 11
Kitāb al-Naqḍ al-Khafi 40
Kurdistan 3
Kurds 22
al-Laja 8
Lamaism 24
Latin Kingdom 2
League of Nations 4
Lebanon 1-3, 5-11, 13-15, 17, 21, 44, 46, 49, 52, 53
anti-Lebanon 1
"Left Wing" ("Follower") 34
Logos 35
Lūristān 53
Magian 39
Magians, see Majūs
al-Makīn. See Jurjus
Mamlūk Sultans 6
al-Ma'mūn, 33
Mandaean 31
Mandaeanism 39
Mandaeans 46
Mani 39
Manichaean 4, 21, 24, 39, 46, 50
Manichaeism 54
Manuscripts, Druze 11, 25, 28, 36, 39
al-Maqrīzi 45
Marcionite 38
al-Matn 9
Maundrell 16
al-Mawṣil 22
Mazdakian 46
Medicis 2
Mesopotamia 21
Michael the Paphlagonian 11
Moab 2
Montfort (Qal‘at Qurayn) 2
Mufawwaḍiyyah 36
Muḥammad ibn-‘Abdullāh 38
Muḥammad ‘Ali Pasha 8
Muḥammad ibn-Ismā‘il 37
Muḥammadiyyah 39
Muḥammad, the Prophet 7, 11, 36, 38, 50, 59, 65
al-Mukhtārah 9
al-Muqaṭṭam 31
al-Muqtana. See Bahā’-al-Dīn Muṣṭafa Arislān 48
al-Mustarshid, Caliph 6
al-Mutawakkil 27
Muwaḥḥidūn. See Unitarians
Nablus (Shechem) 1
Naples 7
al-Nāṣir, al-Malik 6
Nāṭiq (legislating prophet) 37
Nazarenes 39
Nicholson, R. A. 41
Niebuhr 14
Nuṣayriyyah 3, 15, 23, 28, 30, 36, 45, 53
Oppenheim, von 14
Oriental Christian sects 4
Paraclete 65
Parfit, Canon 15
Persians 15
Pharaoh 46
Pharisees 69
Philo 40
"Pioneer" (Mukāsir or Naqīb) 36, 37
Plato 37
Pompey 14
Psalter 66
Qadariyyah. See Qadarites
ibn-al-Qalānisi 26
al-Qarāmiṭah 27, 32, 35, 40, 42, 54
Qars (Ardaghān) 28
Qaysite 10
Qaysites 8
Quraysh 7
"Return," see raj‘ah
"Right Wing" ("Precedent") 34
al-Rūdhrāwari 26
al-Saba’iyyah 28
Sadhus 42
Saint-Pierre, Puget de 16
Saladin 7
Salonika 48
Ṣāmit ("silent") 37
Sargon 1
Sarraceni 13
Selīm 16
al-Shahrastāni 28, 29, 40, 45, 46
al-Shalmaghāni 29
Sheikh 43
Sheikhs 42
Shibli al-‘Aryān 8
al-Shidyāq 21
Shihāb 7
Shihābs 7
Shī‘ah 23, 25, 27, 28, 30-33, 40, 47, 48, 54
Shī‘ism 29
Shī‘ite 4, 19, 26, 28, 32, 47, 48
al-Shūf 9
al-Shuwayfāt 9
Simon 37
Sitt-al-Mulk 31
Solomon's temple 16
Stavriote Greeks 48
Ṣūfis 42
Ṣūfism 41
Sultan Pasha al-Aṭrash 8
Ṣūr (Tyre) 22
al-Suyūṭi, 13
Syria 1-4, 6, 8-11, 53, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 44, 53
Syzygy 35
al-Ṭabari 21
Tadmur (Palmyra) 7
ibn-Taghri-Birdi 18
Ṭahtājis 15
Talḥūq 22
taqiyyah (dissimulation) 14, 22, 24, 47, 48
ibn-Taymiyyah 41
Templars 13
Theosophist, The 24
Torah 66
Unitarians (Muwaḥḥidūn) 33, 34, 58
United States 10
"Universal Mind" 34
"Universal Soul" 34
‘Uqqāl (initiate) 42
Vaux, Carra de 32
Vloten, van 29
Wādi-al-Taym t, 5, 7-10, 18, 19, 21, 23, 28, 44
Wahhābi 41
Worsley, Mrs. 15
Zaḥlah 9
zamān al-sitr (period of concealment) 25
Zenobia 7
Zindīq 42
Zoroastrians 32