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Gathas
6
,

Gaumata
17–18

Genghis Khan
103
,
118

Georgia
47
,
130
,
134–5
,
150
,
167
,
173
,
181
,
182

Germany
211
,
215
,
217–8
,
232–4
,
236

gharbzadegi
244
Al-Ghazali
97–8

Ghazan Khan
117

Ghaznavids
87
,
89
,
91

Ghilzai Afghans
150–1
,
167

ghuluww
129
,
142

Gibbon, Edward
54
,
65
, Gilan
135
,
156
,
212
,
217
,
218
,
222

Gnosticism
52
,
54
,
56

Gobineau
299
, Goethe
115

Golestan, Treaty
183

Golhak
206

Golnabad
151

Gondeshapur
51
,
84

Gorbachev, Mikhail
275

Gotarzes
35

Granicus
29

Greece,
xv
,
25
,
29
,
41–2
,
51

Griboyedov
184–5
,
186

Gaugamela
29
,
30

Gunpowder Empires
141

Gutians
2
,
13

hadith
85
,
96
,
109
,
127
,
174
,
194

Hadrian
43
; Hadrian’s Wall
42

Ha’eri, Shaykh Abdolkarim
249

Hafez
90
,
106
,
111
,
113–16

Hajj
74
,
107
,
151

Hajji Firuz Tepe
2
,

Hajji Mirza Aqasi
191

Al-Hallaj
96

Hamadan (Ecbatana)
4
,
10
,
11
,
17
,
25
,
36
,
108
,
152
,
190
,
217

Hamas
290
,
293

Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Akbar
274
,
289

Hatra
43

Hecht, Anthony
48

Hedayat, Sadeq
229–30

Hephtalite Huns
61–2
,
65

Heraclius
68–9

Herat
104
,
121
,
149
,
153
,
155
,
167
,
191
,
196
,
199

Hercules
18
,

Herodotus
1
,
5
,
10
,
14–15
,
17
,
19
,
26
,
27
,
28

Hezbollah
268
,
270
,
271
,
278

Hezekiah
12–13

Hidden Emam
128–9
,
208
,
210
,
258–9
,
266

Hijra
74

Hindu Kush mountains
5
,
35

HMS Dreadnought
215
Hodgson, Marshall G
141

hojjatoleslam
175
,
277
Holocaust
235
,
293–4

Hormuz, straits of
135

Hormuzd (brother of Shapur II)
58

Hormuzd IV
66

Hormuzdgan
45

Hosein
79
,
123–4
,
126

Hosein, Shah Sultan
147
,
149
,
151
,
152

Hoveyda, Amir Abbas
258
,
268

Hulagu
105

Hyrcania
34

ijtihad
85
,
174

Il-Khans
105–106
,
117

India,
xvi
,
31
,
51
,
106
,
119
,
135
,
138–9
,
144
,
159
,
160
,
180
,
181–2
,
191
,
199

Indus (river)
12
,
159

Indo-Europeans
xiv
,
1
,
3
,
25

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
295

Iran/Contra
274
,
277

Iran/Iraq War
272–274
,
278–9

Iran zamin
2
,
78
,
132
,
139

Al-Iraqi, Fakhroddin (Iraqi)
106
,
108

iqta
120

Irbil (Arbela, Hewler)
29
,
44

Ironside, General
220–2
,
223

Isaiah
13
, Isfahan
45
,
118
,
132
,
134
,
136
,
144
,
150–2
,
154
,
155–6
,
168
,
168
,
171
,
204
,
212
,
218
,
254
; School of:
138

Islam
9
,
71–4
,
75
,
76
,
78–80
,
82
,
85
,
97
,
175
,
177
,
201–2
,
256
,
260
,
275

Islamic Republic Party (IRP)
269

Ismailis
105
,
128

Israel
10
,
245
,
274
,
284–5
; and Ahmadinejad
293–4
; and Iran’s nuclear programme
296
; establishment of
294
; recognition of
288

Istakhr
45

iwan
65

jadidi
190

Ja‘far Al-Sadiq
127–8

Ja‘farian, Rasul
304
n.

Jalal Al-Din (Khwarezmshah)
104
,
107

Jalal Al-e Ahmad
243–4
,
250

Jami
116

Jangali
216
illus.
217
,
218
,
220
,
222

Japan
204
,
234

Jerusalem
13
,
14
,
26
,
68
,
74

Jesuits
127–8
,

Jesus
5
,
52
,
55
,
74
,
111
,
128
,
132

Jews
14
,
26
,
36
,
41
,
59
,
68
,
73
,
157
,
202–3
,
208
,
257
,
283–5
; migration to Israel
284
; persecution of
10
,
42
,
57
,
61
,
104
,
133
,
140
,
144–5
,
190
,
212–13
,
233
; and Mohammad
74
;
see also
Israel, Holocaust

jizya
77
,
78

Jones, Sir Harford
182

Jordan
292

Jovian
59

Judaea
12

Judaism
9
,
10–11
,
42
,
52
,
74
,
190
;
see also
Jews, Israel Julian
58–9

Julius Caesar
37
,
39

Junayd
97

Junayd, Shaykh
130

Juvayni
105
,
117

Ka’ba
75

Kabul
158
,
159
,
167

Kadivar, Mohsen
278

Kalat-e Naderi
167

Kandahar
141
,
149
,
150
,
151–2
,
156
,
158
,
167
,
191

Karbala
79
,
124
,
126
,
175
,
176
,
178
,
260
,
272
,
274

Karen
36

Karim Khan Zand
168
,
170–1
,
258

Karnal
158

Kashan
2
,
77
,
195

Kashani, Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem
242
,
245
,
250

Kasravi, Ahmad
238–9
,
240

Katouzian, Homa
46
,
291

Kavad I
61–4

Kavad II
69

Kay Kavus
72
,
90
,
147

Kennedy, President
247

Kerdir
56–7

Kerman
45
,
151
,
172
,
218

Kermani, Mirza Reza
202–3

Kermanshah
17
,
212
,
217

Khadija
75

Ibn Khaldun
76
,
85
,
119–20

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