For Lust of Knowing (63 page)

Alhazen,
see
al-Haytham, Ibn (Alhazen)

‘Ali, Kurd,
see
Kurd ‘Ali

‘Ali ibn Abi Talib,
84
,
128

Almagest
(Ptolemy),
34
,
92

Almoravids,
25
,
175

Alvarus, Paul,
25

America, discovery,
61–
2

American Oriental Society,
146
,
214

Amis du Gandhi, Les,
227

Among Arabic Manuscripts
(Kratchkovsky),
231

Anabasis
(Xenophon),
16

Analecta Orientalia ad Poeticam Aristoteleam
(Margoliouth),
210

al-Andalus,
25

Andrewes, Lancelot,
76
,
85
,
87
,
88–
9

Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti
(Ussher),
77

Annali dell'Islam
(Caetani),
203

Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe,
113
,
125–
6

Antwerp, decline in status,
81

Antwerp Polyglot Bible,
61
,
73–
4,
80–
81,
95
,
101

Apollonius of Perga,
56

Apology
(al-Kindi),
163

‘Apology for Orientalism' (Gabrieli),
324–
5

Arab caliphate, early history,
186–
7

Arab Christians, and PLO,
305

Arabia Felix,
123

Danish expedition (1761),
131–
2,
153

Arabian Medicine
(Browne),
206

Arabian Nights, The,
156
,
161
,
165
,
177
,
see also Thousand and One Nights

Arabic-English Dictionary
(Cowan),
287

Arabic-English Lexicon
(Lane),
165

Arabic Grammar
(Wright),
287

Arabic language

colloquial,
134
,
135–
6,
238
,
239

dictionaries,
84

grammars,
84

Hebrew transliterations,
84

Latin as prerequisite for study,
83–
4

learnt from Qur'an,
78

paucity of manuscripts,
75
,
78

study of,
74–
5,
76
,
118–
19

Arabic literature,
45
,
113
,
128
,
197–
8,
212

Arabic numerals,
28

Arabic poetry,
143
,
194
,
197–
8,
212–
13,
246–
7

Arabic script, use in Soviet Russia,
232

Arabic studies,
47–
8,
85
,
125

patronage in,
85
,
119–
20

Royalism and,
92
,
94

theology and,
85–
6,
94
,
109

Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age
(Hourani),
252

Arabi Pasha,
182
,
195

Arabische Reich und sein Surz, Das
(Wellhausen),
187

Arabisches Wörterbuch
(Wehr),
239
,
265
,
274

‘Arabism,'
55–
6

Arab Predicament, The
(Ajami),
293

Arabs, Islam and the Arab Caliphate in the Early Middle Ages
(Belyaev),
232–
3

Arab scholars

access to Western publications,
240

in American Orientalism,
245
,
292

works,
239–
40

Arab scholarship, Said on,
292–
3

Arabs in History, The
(Lewis),
246
,
259–
60,
262
,
321
,
323

Arab society

Becker on,
199

early,
172

evolution,
242

matriarchal and matrilocal,
184

Arab universities, hierarchical structure,
240

Arafat, Yasser,
278
,
306

Arberry, Arthur John,
6
,
209
,
238
,
243–
4,
291
,
318

obituary,
244

Arculf, Bishop of Périgueux,
21

Arianism,
20
,
23
,
291

Arias Montano, Benito,
61
,
74

Aristotle,
16–
17

Arabic commentaries,
29
,
31–
2,
35
,
54–
6

Latin translations,
55

Arius,
20

Arkoun, Mohammed,
292

Arnold, Matthew,
294

Arnold, Thomas,
218
,
296

Ars Magna
(Lull),
47

Artin, Yaqub Pasha,
165

Aryan race

Asian origins,
234

contamination by Semitic peoples,
171

superiority,
170

‘asabiyya,
149

Asad, Muhammad,
314–
15,
317

Ascalon, Fatimid garrison,
37

al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk Sultan,
38

Ashtor, Eliahu,
271–
2

Asia

romance of,
50–
51

Russian expansion in,
191

Asia and Western Dominance
(Panikkar),
293

Asiatick Researches
(journal),
146

Asiatick Society of Bengal,
124
,
139
,
146
,
160

Assassins, The
(Lewis),
260

astrology,
59

Astronomica
(Manilius),
77

astronomy

Arab transmission,
34

tables,
28

Atiya, Aziz Suriyal,
10
,
245

Atjeh region, Sumatra,
200

Atlantic Monthly,
262

Auerbach, Eric,
279
,
285
,
289

Augustine, St,
55

Avempace,
59

Averroes,
36
,
42
,
55
,
59
,
167

and Aristotle,
35
,
55

Averroism,
35–
6,
42
,
46
,
55
,
56
,
57
,
58

Avicenna,
29–
30,
32
,
33
,
42
,
55
,
59
,
75
,
128

Avignon university, and teaching of Arabic,
47–
8

Ayalon, David,
150
,
271

al-Azm, Sadik Jalal,
285
,
296
,
298
,
299

al-Azmeh, Aziz,
292

Babis, messianic movement,
172
,
205

Bacchae, The
(Euripides),
14–
15

Bacon, Roger,
37
,
47
,
54
,
55

Badawi, Mustafa,
292

Badr, battle (624),
208
,
268
,
322

Baer, Gabriel,
272

Baha' al-Din Zuhayr,
181

Baha'is,
205

Bahira,
20
,
38

Bailey, Harold,
219

Baldwin, Stanley,
219

Balfour, Arthur,
282

Balkans, Ottoman advances in,
70
,
72
,
109

‘barbarian', use of term,
10

Barbatus, Joseph,
see
Abudacnus

Barenboim, Daniel,
308

Bar Hebraeus,
95
,
96

Barthélémy, Abbé,
134

Bartlett, Robert,
50

Bartold, Vasili Vladimirovich,
229–
30

Basel

Council of (1341),
48

Herbst imprisoned,
71–
2

Basra, Iraq, grammar,
144

Batavia,
200

Baudrillard, Jean,
291

al-Baydawi,
153
,
211

Becker, Carl Heinrich,
190
,
198–
9,
201
,
234
,
247
,
287

influences on,
150

Islam heir to Hellenism,
198
,
203
,
235

Beckford, William,
8

Beckingham, Charles,
237

Bede, Venerable,
21

Bedouin, perceived natural conservatism,
184

Bedwell, William,
86
,
87–
8,
93
,
94
,
102

Beeston, Alfred Felix Landon (‘Freddie'),
237
,
266
,
325

Beginnings, intention and method
(Said),
280

Belgrade, capture (1521),
60

Bell, Gertrude,
210

Bellow, Saul,
251

Belon, Pierre,
63

Belyaev, E. A.,
230
,
232–
3

Belzoni, Giovanni Battista,
163

Bentley, Richard,
77

Berchem, Max van,
215

Bernal, Martin,
5
,
10
,
59
,
108

Bernanos, Georges,
225

Bernard of Clairvaux,
27

Berque, Jacques,
228
,
257
,
298
,
309

Berthereau, Dom,
141–
2

Besant, Walter,
181

‘Between Orientalism and Historicism' (Ahmad),
299–
300

Bevan, Anthony,
296

Bhaba, Homi,
300

Bible

19th-century interest in,
180

Arabic studies and,
85

Authorized Version,
89
,
92

Book of Daniel,
211

cabalistic meanings,
58

chronology of,
73
,
78
,
184

as corrupted revelation,
40
,
326

Exodus, veracity,
181

Genesis, literal truth,
154

Latin Vulgate,
73–
4,
96

New Testament,
40
,
120
,
181

Old Testament,
90
,
194

polyglot,
73–
4,
95–
6

as source,
171

studies,
153
,
154
,
159

vernacular languages,
49

Bibliander, Theodor,
71
,
72

Biblia Sacra Arabica,
105

Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum
(de Goeje),
287

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris,
157

Bibliothèque orientale
(D'Herbelot),
84
,
113–
16,
119
,
284
,
295

al-Bitar, Nadim,
299

Blachère, Régis,
228

Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation
(Bernal),
5
,
10
,
108

Blanquerna
(Lull),
45–
6

Blind Owl, The
(Hedayat),
312

Bloy, Léon,
225

Boccaccio, Giovanni, and Islam,
42–
3

Bodleian Library, Oxford,
90
,
119

Bodley, Sir Thomas,
85
,
90

Bologna university, and teaching of Arabic,
47–
8

Bonaparte, Napoleon,
142

Egyptian expedition (1798),
9
,
134
,
136
,
137
,
138
,
140
,
283
,
284

Bonn, Middle East Studies Centre,
274

Bonsignori, Bonsignore,
56

Book of Contemplation, The
(Lull),
44

Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men, The
(Lull),
44–
5

Bopp, Franz,
153
,
156–
7,
167
,
214

Bosworth, Edmund,
306

Boulainvilliers, Henri, comte de,
116–
17,
118

Boullan, Abbé,
220

Bowen, Harold,
122

Brahmans, Aryan/non-Aryan division,
148

Braudel, Fernand,
258

Bricmont, Jean,
288
,
289

Britain

17th-century intellectual interests,
80

classical knowledge in,
207–
8,
209

imperialism,
112–
13,
286

Middle East, position in,
266

Orientalism,
294
,
324

17th century,
80
,
94
,
101

19th century,
159
,
176–
7,
180

20th century,
237–
9,
240–
41,
253
,
258
,
265–
6

British East India Company,
112–
13,
125
,
179

British Museum,
133

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies,
275