Mujtahid_u_n fi-l-madh_a_hib, 113 Mujtahid_u_n mu_t_laq, 112 Mukallaf, 280, 317, 318, 321, 323, 342, 345; cf. takl_i_f Muk_a_shafa, 227 Mukh_a_bara, 354 Mukh_a_lafa lil-_h_aw_a_dith, 205, 210, 232, 280, 324 Mukha_ss_i_s_, 325 Mum_a_thala, 338 Mu’min, 126, 130, 350 Mumkin_a_t, 330 Munkar, 296, 298, 305, 311 Munazzah, 324 Munta_z_ar, 313; see, too, Mu_h_ammad al-Munta_z_ar Muqallad, 316, 350; cf. taql_i_d Al-Muqanna‘, 30 Munqidh min a_d_-dal_a_l of al-Ghazz_a_l_i_, 216, 225, 239 Muqarrab, 306 Al-Muqtadir, ‘Abb_a_sid Kh., 184 Mur_a_bi_t_s, 246, 251 Marji’ites, 122-127, 129, 131, 132, 171, 193, 214, 292 Murtadd, 24, 297 M_u_s_a_, see Moses M_u_s_a_ al-Qazam, 42 Mus_a_q_a_t, 354 Musallam_a_t, 259 Musannaf, 79 Musaylima, 150 Mushabbih, 191; cf. bil_a_ kayfa Mush_a_hada, 327 Mushrik, 284, 299; cf. shirk, shar_i_k Muslim, 80 Musnad, 79, 110 Al-Mu_st_af_a_, 300 Musta_h_abb, 73 Musta_hi_l, 316 Mustan_s_ir, F_at_imid Kh., 170 Mutakallims, 147, 186, 193-196, 215, 231, 262, 276, 337 Al-Mu‘tasim, ‘Abb_a_sid Kh., 157, 158, 162, 163 Mutaq_a_bil_a_t, 330 Al-Mutawakkil, ‘Abb_a_sid Kh., 157, 162 Mutaw_a_tir, 308 Mu‘tazilites, 37, 57, 120, 130, 135-138, 140, 143-146, 151-159, 166, 168, 171, 172, 175, 176, 184-196, 200, 207, 208, 211-214, 220-226, 241, 248, 291-294, 298, 299, 311, 336, 337, 343, 344 Muwa_hh_ids, 179, 207, 246-257, 261-265, 284, 296, 307 Muwa_tt_a’ of M_a_lik ibn Anas, 78, 82, 101, 102 Al-Muzd_a_r, 151 Mzab in Algeria, 26, 59 Nabateans, 44 Nab_i_, 263, 312, 345 Nab_i_dh, 314 Nadhr, 356 Nafaqa, 355 Naf_i_sa, The Lady, 173 Nafs, 234, 272, 334 Nah_a_wand, 14, 133 Naj_a_s_a_t, 352 Najd, 60 Najj_a_rites, 292 Nak_i_r, 296, 298, 305, 311 Naq_i_b, 268 Naql, 120, 148, 157, 214, 269, 297, 310 Naqshbandite darw_i_shes, 267 Narbonne, 83 An-Nasaf_i_, 193, 207, 277, 308 An-Nas_a_’_i_, 81, 152 N_a_sir ibn Khusraw, 170 An-N_as_ir, Maml_u_k Sul_ta_n, 277 An-Na_s_r al-Manb_i_j_i_, 277 Na_ss_, 29, 95, 292 Nays_a_b_u_r, 217, 229 Na_z_r, 208 An-Na_zza_m, 140, 143, 152 Neo-Platonism, 163, 164, 168, 180, 181, 196, 232, 235, 236, 253, 255, 264, 272 Nik_ah_, 354 Nisba, 337 Ni_za_m al-Mulk, 213, 217, 218 Ni_za_mite Academy, 213, 217 Noah, or N_uh_, 42, 43, 345 Nu_s_ayrites, 59 Old Man of the Mountain, Shaykh al-jabal, 49 Ottoman Sul_ta_n, 10, 56, 58, 59 Ottoman Turks, 36, 52, 53, 54, 60 Pan-Isl_a_mic movement, 59 Parsees, 194 People of Paradise, 139 People of the Sunna, 336, 337 Persia, Persian, 14, 23, 31, 36-41, 44, 49, 50, 51, 82, 131-134, 150, 155, 157, 184 Persian Gulf, 60 Persian mysticism, 5 Plato, 134, 162-165, 235 Plotinus, Plotinian, 163-165, 182, 231, 256, 269, 280 Porphyrius, 163 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, 181, 182 Ptolemaic system, 233