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INDEX
Abadan 261
Abbas I, Shah (Abbas the Great) 134–8
Abbas II, Shah 141
Abbas III, Shah 156–7
Abbas Mirza 178, 183, 185–6
Abbasid dynasty 80–6, 91
Abdali Afghans 151, 153
Abrahamian, Ervand 234
Abu Muslim 80
Abu’l Abbas 80
Achaemenes (Hakhamanish) 5,
Achaemenids (dynasty) 6, 11–27, 34, 35, 42, 44, 45, 51, 60, 256
adalatkhaneh 205
Adhurpat 57
adhvenak 9,
Al-Afghani, Jamal Al-Din 201–2
Albright, Secretary 283
Afghanistan, xvi, 198, 191, 288
Afshars 135
Ahmadinejad, Mahmud 230, 289–90, 293–4, 295
Ahmad Shah 220, 223
Ahmad Shah Durrani (formerly Ahmad Khan Abdali) 167–8
Ahriman 7–8
Ahura Mazda 7–9
Aisha 75
Ajam 82, 108
Ajnadayn 76
Akhbaris 174
Akoman 8,
Alborz (mountains) 3, 4, 128
Alexander (Iskander) 17, 28–32, 33, 43, 132, 167
Alexandria 29, 32
Ali 79–80, 124–6, 130–2
Ali Qoli (later Adel Shah) 165, 167
Alp Arslan 93
Amanpour, Christiane 283
Amida (Diyarbekir) 58
Amir Kabir 195
Amol 84
Amesha Spenta 7,
Amin od-Dawleh 203
Amin ol-Sultan 203
Amuzegar, Jamshid 258
Anahita 7, 57
Andragoras 34
Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC – lat
er Anglo-Iranian – AIOC) 216, 236
anjoman 208
Ansari, Ali 279
Anshan 2, 11, 13
Aq Qoyunlu 121, 131
Aquinas 85
Ibn Arabi 109–11, 138, 249, 265, 275
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (later Shah) 170–4, 178
Arabic language 2, 72, 81, 82, 85–6
Arak 295, 295
Aral Sea 34
Aramaic language 2, 23
Araxes (river) 5, 183
Arberry 95, 113
Arcadius 59
Ardashir I 45–9
Ardashir II 59
Ardebil 129, 130, 137
Aristotle 17, 84, 85
Armenia, Armenians 16 (map), 37, 39, 40, 41, 43, 48, 57, 59, 61, 66, 68, 73, 92 (map), 134–6, 144, 157, 184, 187, 191, 199, 208, 264 (map), 284
army (Persian, Iranian) 29, 37, 45, 76, 134–5, 151, 154–5, 158, 161–2, 167, 182, 183, 185, 195, 196, 220, 222, 226–7, 232, 234, 238, 239, 242, 263, 268, 273, 305,
Arsaces (Arshak) 34
Arsacids 34, 36, 43
arta (asha) 10, 19
Artabanus (Ardavan) IV 44, 45
Artaxerxes I (Artakhshathra) 26
Artaxerxes II 26
Artaxerxes III 27
asabiyah 76
Ashraf Ghilzai 152
Ashura 124–5, 176–7
Aslanduz 183
Assassins 105, 128, 165, 167
Assembly of Experts 269
Assyria, Assyrians 2, 4–5, 12
Astarabadi, Mirza Mahdi 166
Astyages 11,
Atatürk 223, 226, 230, 231
Athens 25–6, 29
Attar, Farid Al-Din 99–101, 117
Augustine, Saint, of Hippo 54–5
Augustus 41
Aurelian 56
Averroes 85
Avesta 4, 10, 41
Avicenna 84, 85, 97, 138, 275
awqaf 137
ayatollah 175
Azarethes 66
Azari, Farah 281, 308n.
Azarmedokht 69
Azerbaijan, Azeris 4, 5, 40, 117, 129, 178, 183, 186, 190, 217, 220, 237–8
Baath party 272
Babi movement 191–3
Babol 190
Babylonia 2, 10, 12, 13, 14, 26
Bactria, 5, 34
Bagoas 27
Baghdad 80, 81, 82–83, 84, 91, 105, 119, 135, 141, 142, 156, 163
Baha’is 191, 193, 204, 210, 257, 285
Bahar, Mohammad Taqi 139
Baha’ullah 193
Bahman (Vohu Manu) 7