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I owe a debt of gratitude to Susan Hoffman, who as director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at San Francisco State, convinced me to teach a class on Islam and the West in 2006. Those lectures were one of the seeds out of which grew this book—a growth spurred also by Neils Swinkel, who taped some of those lectures and Matt Martin, station manager at KALW radio, who aired the edited tapes as a weekly series.

Next, let me thanks my agent, Carol Mann. When I told her I was vaguely thinking of writing something called “world history through Islamic eyes,” she cut in to say, “That’s it! That’s your next book!
West of Kabul
was the ant’s-eye view; this will be the bird’s-eye view.” And she was right—this is a bird’s-eye view of my enduring preoccupation, the conjunction and disjunction of East and West.

And thank you, Lisa Kaufman, my insightful editor, whose notes and line edits have been like having not just a second set of eyes but a second and more exacting brain to apply to this project.

Also, I received priceless feedback on this book while it was still a work in progress from my brother Riaz Ansary, who knows more about the doctrines and early history of Islam than I ever will, from my brilliant sister, Rebecca Pettys, and from my friends Joe Quirk and Paul Lobell. Layma Murtaza generously allowed me to study correspondence and magazines her family inherited from her grandfather Dr. Abdul Hakim Tabibi, a disciple of Sayyid Jamaluddin-i-Afghan. Farid Ansary has contributed with a lifetime of stories, anecdotes, poetry quotations, and wit. Wahid Ansary has done his
best to clue me in to the fine points of our religion, and the
n there is my friend Akbar Nowrouz: Akbar-jan, where would I be without all the Islamic-wisdom stories you send to my e-mail?

But above all, thank you to my wife, Deborah Krant, my first reader, first critic, and indispensable partner; thank you to Elina Ansary, for helping me so much with the maps; and thank you, Jessamyn Ansary, for being so endlessly supportive.

Abbas ibn Abd al-Mutt
alib See also Saffah

Abbas the Great

Abbasid age/khalifate

Ali descendants and

Baghdad and

bodyguards (mamluks)

bureaucracy

description(fig.)

economy/commerce

orthodox Islam and

overview

Persian mini dynasties

Persian viziers

philosophy and

Shi’ism and

Turk barbarians and

Abbasid revolution(fig.)

Abduh, Mohammed

Abdul Rahman/the Third

Abdul Wahhab

Abdullah (Hashimite)

Abdullah (Othman’s foster brother)

Abraham, prophet

Abu al-Abbas

Abu Bakr

Mohammed and

Othman (khalifa) and

as successor/beliefs

Abu Muslim(fig.)

Abu Sufyan

Abu Talib

Abyssinia and Mohammed’s followers

Adultery

Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, The
(Morier)

Afdal, al-

Afghanistan

9/11 and aftermath

abandonment by Europe/U.S.

Anglo-Afghan wars

“Great Game” (Russia/Britain) (fig.)

independence

secular modernism

Soviet Union invasion

Taliban

Wahhabism

Water Carrier’s Son

Aflaq, Michel

Age of Discovery

Age of Justice

Agha-i-Sayyaf

Ahmad Shah Baba

Ahmadinejad

Ahriman

Ahura Mazda

Aims of the Philosophers, The
(Ghazali)

Akbar the Great

Akçam, Taner

Akkadians

Al Azhar University

Alamut fortress

Alaudin Mohammed

Albert of Aix

Albigensians

Alchemy of Happiness, The
(Ghazali)

Alexander the Great

Algeria

France’s takeover

Islamic Salvation Party

Ali

assassination

Ayesha and

as imam

Mohammed and

Mu’awiya and

Omar and

Othman and

Sabbah’s beliefs on

Shi’i/Shi’ism and

succession conflict and

as successor/beliefs

Sufism and

Ali, Mohammed

Ali, Tariq

Ali Shah, Mohammad

Aligarh movement.
See
Sayyid Ahmad, Sir (of Aligarh)

“Allah” meaning

Alp Arslan

Amanullah

Amir Kabir (Mirza Taqi)

Amorites

Amr ibn al-A’as

Amra bin Abdul Rahman

Ansar (“the Helpers”)

Ansary, Tamim

childhood/background

world history/Islamic world and

Antony, Mark

Apostate Wars

Arab nationalism See also Pan-Arab nationalism

Arab Revolt (World Wa
r I) (fig.)

Arabic language

Arabs

early trade(fig.)

as Semitic

violence and

Arafat, Yasser

Aramaic language

Aristotle

Armenians

assassination of three Pashas

massacre of

in Ottoman Empire

Arslan, Kilij

Asharite school

Asia Minor

before/following Crusades

Sufism and

See also
Ottoman Empire

Assassins, Cult of

Assyrians

Aswan Dam

Atatürk

Atlantic Charter

Attila

Aurangzeb

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Ayatollah definition

Ayesha

Azam Khan, Prince

Azzam, Abdullah

Ba’ath party

Ba’ath Socialist Party

Babur

Babylon/Babylonian empires

Bacon, Francis

Badr battle

Baghdad

building

during Abbasid age

Mongols’ destruction/killings

Baldwin, King of Edessa

Balfour, Arthur James

Balshazzar

Banna, Hassan al-

Banu Hashim clan

Banu Qurayza

Baraka of Mohammed

Barbarossa, Frederick

Basilic cannon

Battle of the Camel

Battle of the Moat

Bayazid I

Baybars, Zahir

Bearden, Milton

Behistun

Bektash

Berke

Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali

Bin Laden, Osama

Bismarck, Otto von

Bolsheviks

Book of Kings, The
(
Shanama
/Firdausi)

Book of Unity, The
(
Kitab-al-Tawhid
/Abdul Wahhab)

Borsoki, al-

Boyle, Robert

British Petroleum (BP)

Buddhism

Bukhari

Bush, George W., administration

Buyid family

Byzantine Empire/Byzantines (fig.)

Caesar, Julius

Calligraphy

Camel, Battle of

Canning, Stratford

Capitulations to Europeans

Catherine the Great

Chaldeans

Chaldiran battle

Charlemagne

Chemistry foundations

Chengez Khan

background/description

invasions

China

before Islam

industrialization/labor and

Mongols and

Christian fundamentalists

Christianity

early expansion

monastic orders

Roman Empire split and

significant events of

See also
Crusades; Orthodox Christianity; Roman Church

Churchill, Winston

Civil War, U.S. (1860-1864)

“Clash of civilizations”

Class divisions (1900s)

cultural divisions

description/effects

Clive, Robert

Cold War effects

Collection of All Histories
(Rashid al-Din)

Columbus, Christopher

Committee for Union and Progress (CUP)

“Composite” bows

Comte, Auguste

Constantinople

Byzantine fire

description(fig.)

Ottomans’ taking

symbolic significance

See also
Istanbul

Constitutionalism

democracy and

Iran

Ottoman Empire

Turkey

Copernicus

Córdoba

Cornwallis, General

“Cradle of civilization”

Crassus

Crosthwaite, Sir Charles

Crusades

alignments

Assassins and

Christian pilgrimages and

crusader states

first contact

Fourth Crusade

“Franj” term

Jerusalem

jihad proponents

landless noblemen and

Muslim disunity

Muslim unity

Nicaea fall

Northern Crusade

overview/effects

residues of

Second Crusade

slaughter/atrocities by Franj

theater of(fig.)

Third Crusade

trade following

Curtin, Philip D.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Dabashi, Hamid

Daniel

Daquq

Dar al-Funun

Dar al-Islam

Dar al-Harb vs.

description

D’Arcy, William Knox

Darius (“the Great”)

David and Goliath

Democracy

Atlantic Charter

constitutionalism and

Iran

Islam-West relationship (today) and

Jamaluddin-i-Afghan

oil and

Turkey

Deobandis

Dervishes

Descartes, René

Desert Storm

Devshirme program

Diaz, Bartholomew

Din-i Illahi (“the God Religion”)

Diocletian

Dress code

Dulles, John Foster

Duval, Pierre

East India Companies/Company

Egypt

cotton market and

defeat of Mongols

following World War I

French/British competition over

mamluk rule

Mohammed Ali and

Napoleon and

status See also Nasser, Gamal Abdul

Eisenhower, Ike

End of History and the Last Man, The
(Fukuyama)

Engels, Friedrich

English longbow

Ethnic cleansing, UN definition

Eunuchs

Europe (1291-1600 CE)

Americas and

books’ significance

crusading spirit