Aly, 21 _note_, 64, 65; his slave girls, 89, 123, 207; appointed Elector, 280, 282, 287, 289; swears allegiance to Othmân, 291, 293, 295, 308, 316, 317; expostulates with Othmân, 321, 327, 329 _et seq._; sends son to protect Othmân, 334; elected Caliph, 342 _et seq._; would supersede Muâvia, 345; appoints new governors, 347; defied by Muâvia, 349; pursues rebels, 355; advances on Bussorah, 360; negotiates with rebels, 361; Battle of Camel, 363; enters Bussorah, 366; transfers government to Kûfa, 369; sends envoy to Muâvia, 376; invades Syria, 377; battle of Siffîn, 380 _et seq._; accepts arbitration, 386; opposed by Khârejites, 388; Syrian campaign ordered, 397; defeats Khârejites, 399; loses Egypt, 401 _et seq._; attitude towards Christian captives, 406; truce with Muâvia, 410; assassination, 411 _et seq._; burial-place unknown, 414; character, 415, 433, 451, 456 Aly Akbar, 440 Aly Asghar, 440, 441 Alyites (_see_ Shîyas), 454 Aly, son of Hosein, 439 Ameer al Momenîn, title of Caliph, 285 Amghîsia, 78 Amida, 217, 219 Amina, Mahomet’s mother, 289 Ammân, 153 Ammâr, Governor of Kûfa, 268, 269, 284, 290, 325, 359, 363, 368, 380; killed, 382 Amr ibn Mádekerib, 53, 55, 56, 138, 158, 168, 173 Amr, son of Sád, 437, 445 Amru, 12, 18, 93, 95, 97 _et seq._, 108, 153, 205 _et seq._, 208; sends grain to Medîna, 233; conquers Egypt, 239 _et seq._; Mosque of, 244; Feast in Egypt, 246; conquests in Africa, 247, 264, 276, 288; displaced in Egypt, 299, 326; joins Muâvia, 373; commands Muâvia’s army, 378, 382; appointed Umpire, 385; decision, 391 _et seq._; escapes assassination, 412; his death, 422 Amwâs, 206 Anbâr, 85, 89, 138 Ansâr, citizens of Medîna, 3, 5, 32, 126 Antioch, 200, 216 Apology of Al Kindy, 23, 75, 220, 416, 452 Apostasy, of Arabia, 11; left a stigma, 28, 63; subdued, 60; ban removed, 126 Araba, 97 Arabia, exodus from, 60; to be wholly Moslem, 224, 230 Arab slaves set free, 63 Arabs, militant race, 62; pensioned, 226; nobility of the Moslem world, 260; antagonism between, and Coreish, 294, 454, 455 Arbitration at Siffîn, 386 Ardshir (city), 406 Ardshîr (king), 76 Arfaja, 18, 51, 134, 191 Arîsh, 241 Armâth (Câdesîya), 167 Armenia, 217 Arrestân, 199 Artabûn, 206, 207, 241 Asad, _Beni_, 22, 25, 26, 27, 169 Ascalon, 206 Ashár, _Beni_, 53 Asháth ibn Cays, 56 _et seq._, 64, 219, 385 Ashtar, 317, 319, 337, 360; precipitates Battle of Camel, 362; at Siffîn, 384 _et seq._ Asia Minor, 217, 297, 298 Asim, his feat at Câdesîya, 168