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Islamic Jihad (IJ),
12.1
,
13.1

Islami Jamiat-i-Taliban (IJT; Society of Islamic Students)

Islamists,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
13.1
,
13.1

Islam and the Use of Force
(Berri)

Islambouli, Khaled,
12.1
,
12.2

Ismailis,
7.1
,
nts.1
n83

Ismail Pasha

Israel
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
13.1
,
aft.1
; ancient,
itr.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
11.2
, 394,
aft.2
,
nts.1
n32; annexation of captured territory by,
11.3
; Arab conflict with,
11.4
,
11.5
,
11.6
,
12.4
,
12.5
,
12.6
; creation of,
11.7
,
11.8
; Islamist denunciation of,
13.2
;
Palestinians
oppressed by,
11.9
,
11.1
,
11.10
,
12.7
,
13.3
; Palestinian uprisings against,
12.8
,
12.9
; West Bank settlements of,
11.11
,
11.12
; Zionist view of,
10.1

Israelites
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
aft.1
,
nts.1
n32; in Babylonia,
4.2
,
4.3
; Canaanites and,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
; descent into moral depravity of,
4.7
; in Egypt,
4.8
; in Sinai wilderness,
4.9
; state established by (
see
Israel ancient
)

Italy,
5.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
; Holy Roman Empire and,
8.3
,
8.4
,
9.3
; Papal States in,
9.4
; Protestants in,
9.5

Jacob,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
11.1
,
nts.1
n32

Jahangir, Moghul emperor,
10.1
,
10.2

Jains,
2.1
,
2.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
,
aft.1

Jamaat-i-Islami

Jamestown colony

Jan of Leyden
, n43

Japan,
9.1
; ancient,
itr.1
; in Second World War,
12.1

Jarrah, Ziad

Jebusites

Jeddah (Jidda),
13.1
,
13.2

Jefferson, Thomas,
10.1
,
10.2

Jericho,
itr.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

Jeroboam, King of Israel

Jerusalem,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
7.1
,
12.1
; in Byzantine Empire,
6.1
,
7.2
; Crusaders and,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.3a
,
8.4
,
8.5
; Israeli control of,
11.1
,
12.2
; in Roman Empire,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
; Sadat in,
11.2
;

spiritual importance in Islam of,
7.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
; suicide bombings in,
12.3
; temples in,
itr.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
6.1

Jerusalem Talmud

Jesuits,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Jesus
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
13.1
,
aft.1
; accounts of life of (
see
gospels
); apostles of,
5.3
,
5.4
; belief in return of,
5.5
,
5.6
; birth of,
5.7
; crucifixion of,
5.8
,
5.9
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
9.1
,
9.2
; disciples of,
5.10
,
5.11
,
8.5
,
10.2
; divinity of,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
10.3
(
see also
Christ
); faith in (
see
Christianity
); heresies based on teachings of,
8.1
,
9.3
; Kingdom of God of,
5.12
,
5.13
,
6.7
,
aft.2
; at Last Supper,
8.6
; mission in Galilee of,
5.14
,
9.4
,
13.2
; monasticism inspired by,
6.8
; Sermon on the Mount of,
11.2
; worldly authority rejected by,
6.9

Jewish Defense League

Jews
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
aft.1
,
aft.2
; ancient,
see
Israelites; assimilated
,
4.1
,
8.2
; in Byzantine Empire,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1
; Hasmonean,
5.1
; in Medina,
7.2
,
7.3
; Muslim antagonism toward,
11.1
,
aft.3
; Orthodox,
10.4
,
11.2
; in Ottoman Empire,
13.1
,
13.2
; persecution and slaughter of,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
10.5
(
see also
Holocaust
); in Roman Empire,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
; during Spanish Inquisition,
9.1
,
9.2
; in United States,
11.3
;
see also
Judaism

Jezirah

jihad
,
itr.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
aft.1
; classical doctrine of,
7.1
,
7.2
,
13.2
; global,
11.3
,
13.3
,
13.4
,
13.5
,
13.6
,
13.7
; heavenly rewards for,
7.3
; military,
7.4
,
7.5
,
8.1
; Palestinian,
12.2
,
12.3
; against secularism,
11.4
; against selfishness and egotism,
7.6
,
7.7
; against Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan,
13.8
,
13.9
,
aft.2
;
see also
Greater Jihad

Jihad Network

Jin (China),
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Jinnah, Muhammad Ali

Jnatra clan

Jnatraputra
,
Vardhamana (Mahavira)

Johannine authors

John, Gospel of,
5.1
,
5.2

John XXIII, Pope

John the Baptist,
5.1
,
6.1
,
10.1

John Paul II, Pope

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
11.1
,
11.2

Jones, James Warren

Jonestown (Guyana) mass suicide

Jordan,
11.1
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
10.1

Jordan valley

Joseph

Joseph (father of Jesus)

Josephus

Joshua,
itr.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1

Josiah, King of Judah

Jovian

Judah (son of Jacob)

Judah: ancient kingdom of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
aft.1
;
see also
Judea

Judaism
,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
9.1
; attacks on,
8.1
(
see also
anti-Semitism
); early Christianity and,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1
; egalitarian tradition in,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
5.4
; fundamentalist,
11.1
,
12.1
; holy spirit in,
6.2
; Islam and,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
; in Persia,
1.2
,
4.5
,
6.3
; Rabbinic,
5.5
,
12.2
; Satan in,
8.2
;
see also
Hebrew Bible
;
Jews

Judas of Galilee,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Judea
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
7.1

JUI (Association of Ulema of Islam)

Julian the Apostate,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1
,
12.1

Jupiter

Justinian,
6.1
,
7.1

“just war,” 154,
6.1
,
9.1

Kabah (Mecca),
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1

Kabbalism

Kach

Kahane, Meir

Kakar, Sudhir

Kalahari Desert

Kalinga (India)

Kali Yuga

Kamil, Sultan al-

Kandahar (Afghanistan),
13.1
,
13.2

Kant, Immanuel

Karadzic, Radovan,
13.1
,
13.2

Karbala (Iraq),
7.1
,
11.1
,
13.1

Kashi (India)

Kashmir,
11.1
,
13.1

Kassites

Kauravas,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Kelly, James

Kemosh

Kennedy, John F.,
11.1
,
11.2

Kharajites,
7.1
,
7.2

Khatami, Hojjat ol-Islam Seyyed Muhammad

Khaybar, Battle of,
7.1
,
12.1

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
13.1
,
aft.1

Khosrow I, King of Persia,
6.1
,
7.1

Khosrow II, King of Persia,
6.1
,
7.1

Khwarazmian Turks

Khyber Pass

King, Martin Luther

Kingdom of God,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
11.1

Kingdom of God Is Within You, The
(Tolstoy)

Kiryat Arba (West Bank),
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

Kish (Mesopotamia)

knights,
8.1
,
8.2
; in Crusades,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
aft.1
; papal supremacy challenged by,
8.7
; Peace and Truce of God restrictions on violence of,
8.8
,
aft.2

Knights of Hospitaler of St. John,
8.1
,
8.2

Knights Templar,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

Kongfuzi,
see
Confucius

Kookists,
11.1
,
12.1
,
aft.1

Korea

Kosambi (India)

Koshala (India),
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Krishna,
2.1
,
11.1

Kshatriya (“empowered ones”),
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
11.2

Kufa (Iraq),
7.1
,
7.2

Ku Klux Klan

Kundagrama (India)

Kurds,
8.1
,
11.1

Kurus,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4

Lachish (Judah)

Lackawanna Six

Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius,
5.1
,
6.1

Lagash (Mesopotamia),
1.1
,
1.2

Lakhmid Arabs
, n69

Lambeth Articles

Languedoc (France),
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
10.1

Laozi (Lao-Tzu)

Lascaux cave paintings

Last Days,
7.1
,
8.1

Last Judgment

Last Supper

Lateran Councils,
8.1
,
8.2

Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury,
9.1
,
10.1

Lavoisier, Antoine

Law of Freedom

Lawrence, T. E.

Lazarus

Lazlo, Prince of Serbia

League of Nations

Lebanon,
1.1
,
7.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
aft.1

Lee, Robert E.

Legalism,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
aft.1

Leighton, Alexander

Leo III, Pope

Levant,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
4.1
,
8.1

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