Khamenei, Ali (President, later Supreme
Khamseh confederation
218
,
Kharg Island
191
Khatami, Seyyed Mohammad
282–3
,
285–6
,
287–8
,
293
Khiva
198
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
110
,
247–251
,
256
,
258–9
,
260
,
261–3
,
265–9
,
270
,
271–2
,
274–7
Khorasan
77
,
80
,
82
,
83
,
86
,
87
,
97
,
101
,
103–5
,
106
,
130
,
151
,
153
,
167–8
,
173
,
195
,
229
Khorasani, Mohammad Kazem
211
Khordad
7
,
Khorramshahr
273
Khosraw I (Khosraw Anushirvan)
33
,
62
,
63
,
64–6
Khosraw II (Khosraw Parvez)
66–9
Khuzestan,
xv
,
2
,
58
,
84
,
216
,
218
,
240
,
273
Kiarostami, Abbas
297
Konya
107
Kuh-e Nur
(diamond)
167
Kurds, Kurdistan
xiv
,
4
,
29
,
86
,
135
,
237
; Nationalism/seperatism
267–8
,
272
,
273
Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)
272
Kushans
49
kvarrah
60
Macrinus
44
Majles
207–8
,
210
,
211
,
212
,
213
,
214–15
,
217
,
220
,
223
,
224
,
226
,
228
,
229
,
236
,
240
,
241
,
245
,
247
,
248
,
255
,
269
,
284
,
286
,
290
,
291
Majlesi, Mohammad Baqer
144–5
,
148–9
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
297
Makhmalbaf, Samira
297
Malcolm, Sir John
172
,
179
,
180
,
182
,
199
Malkom Khan
199–200
Mandaeans
53
Mannaeans
2
Marathon
24
marja-e taqlid
175
,
245
,
247
,
268
,
277
Mashhad
132
,
137
,
153
,
168
,
190
,
212
,
216
,
232
,
260
,
261
,
263
mashruteh
207–13
Massagetae
15
mawali
78
Mawlana see Rumi
Mazdaeans, Mazdaism
7–11
,
17
,
19–20
,
31–2
,
36
,
41
,
43
,
45
,
52
,
56–7
,
77
Mazdak, Mazdakites, Mazdakism
15
,
62
,
64
Mecca
68
,
72–3
,
74
,
75
,
79
,
96
,
125
,
151
Mesopotamia,
2
,
11
,
23
,
33
,
35
,
37
,
43
,
45
,
47
,
51
,
52
,
58
,
69
,
76
Ministry of Infor mation and Security (MOIS)
270
,
283–4
,
293
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
281
Lahore
106
Lebanese Hezbollah
272
,
278
,
290
,
293
Leonidas
26
Lermontov
181
Lewisohn, Leonard
vii
,
147
n,
302
n,
303
n Lezges
160
,
161
,
184
Lotf Ali Khan Zand
171–3
Lydia
12
,
Lucullus
37
luti
140
Mir Veis
150–1
Mirza Hosein Khan
197–8
Misikoe
48
Mithra/Mithras, Mithraism
7
,
42–3
Mithradates I
35
Mithradates II
35
Mobad
51
Modarres, Seyyed Hasan
228–9
,
270
Mohammad
5
,
54
,
68–9
,
72–5
,
96
,
125–6
Mohammad Ghuri
106
Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar
163
,
168
Mohammad Reza Shah
234
,
236
,
244–6
,
259
Mohammad, Sultan (Khwarezmshah)
103
,
104
Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO)
255
mojtahed
174
,
175
,
200
,
205
,
210
,
211
,
220
,
249
,
258–9
,
266
,
276
monafeqin
271
Mongols
18
,
101–6
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
129
,
142
Montazeri, Hosein-Ali, Ayatollah
259
,
277–8
Mossadeq, Mohammad
228–9
,
239–43
Motahhari, Morteza
268
Mottahedeh, Roy
255
Multan
106
Mycale
26
,
Nabonidus
14
,