Muhammad, the Apostle, 3, 18; his birth, 120; details of his life, 120-132; his death, 132; as a poet, 24, 30; as a reformer, preacher and apostle at Mecca, 119, 120, 132; as a military leader, 147; his military expeditions, 127-131, 147; his failure at Mecca, 134; his success at Madinah, 135, 136; his power there as Pope-King, 135; his virtues at Mecca, his vices at Madinah, 136; his wives, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129, 137; his concubines, 128, 129, 137; reasons for his numerous marriages, 137; compared with Moses, 142; to him the Arabs owe their nationality, 146; always insisted on faith and prayer, 149; his parting address at Mina, 150; his immediate successors, 4, 5, 18, 25; his companions and their successors, 39; his converts, 123, 124, 126, 129 Muhammad Al-Amin, the philologist and lawyer, 116 Muhammad bin Habib, the editor of poems, 76 Muhammad bin Saad, the historian, 53 Muhammad Hussain Tabrizi, the penman, 113 Muir (Sir William), 120; his life of Muhammad, 120, 137; his annals of the early Khalifate, 147 Munkah, the Sanscrit translator, 91 Musa, the general, 7 Musa bin Khalid, the translator, 91 Muslim Homeir, the geographer, 49 Musset (Alfred de), the poet, 233; the verses on his tomb in Paris, 234 Mustaa'sim (Al) Billah, the Khalif, 12, 20, 107 Mustatraf (Al), a story-book, 201; extracts from it, 202-209 Muta, Battle at, 130 Mutanabbi (Al), the poet, 77, 84, 85 Mysticism, 95 N. Nabiga, the poet, 30 Nadim (An), author of the 'Fihrist,' 55, 56, 84, 85 Nami (An), the poet, 77, 85 'Naphut-ul-Yaman,' a story-book, 188; extracts from it, 188-192 Nasir-uddin-Tusy, the Persian, 107 Natural history, writers about, 58 (Khalef-al-Ahmer, Ahmad bin ud Dinveri, Jahiz (Al), Ibn Duraid, Shaibani (As), each indexed separately.) Newton and the Bible, 140 Nubakht, the translator, 98 O. Obaid Allah bin Jahsh, the Hanyf, 133 Ohud, Battle of, 127 Omaiyide Khalifs, Abdul-Malik and Walid I, patrons of literature and art, 95 Omaiyides, The, list of 19; dynasty established, 5; conquests of, 6; fall of, 7 Omar, the Khalifah, 4, 19, 137, 147 Oriental Congress of 1889, v., vi. Oriental lectures established, vi. Oriental literature, study of, vi. Oriental Translation Fund, Old, vi., vii.; its revival, vi.; new fund to be permanent, vii.; some of its works, 54, 57, 88, 109, 115, 117; list of works published by, Appendix, 235 Otbi (Al), the poet, 77, 80, 82 Othman, the Khalifah, 4, 19 Othman bin Huwairith, the Hanyf, 133 Othman bin Talha, the custodian of the Kaabah, 3, 129 Oweis Al Keremi, the mystic, 95 P. 'Pancha Tantra,' 151, 153, 183 Passion Play, the Arab, 6 Payne (John), description of his 'Nights,' 155, 156, 175, 177, 180 Pelly (Sir Lewis), a translator, 6 Periods of Arab literature--first, 25; second, 20; third, 106; of Arab history, 2 Persia, its severance from the Abbasides, 13 Persian Portraits, 151