Iran: Empire of the Mind (56 page)

Khamenei, Ali (President, later Supreme

Leader)
274
,
277–8
,
279
,
286
,
289

Khamseh confederation
218
,

kharabat
95
,
108

Kharg Island
191

Kharijites
79
,
80
,
126

Khatami, Seyyed Mohammad
282–3
,
285–6
,
287–8
,
293

Khazars
68
,
69

Khiva
198

Khomein
248
,
249

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
,

Khorramites
15
,
86
,
129

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

Khwarezm
103
,
166

Kiarostami, Abbas
297

Kirkuk
156
,
159
,
163

kofr
98
,
99

Komiteh
267
,
270

Konya
107

Kuchek Khan
216–17
,
222

Kufa, Kufans
80
,
123
,
124
,
126

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

Macedon
24
,
25
,
26
,
27–9
,
31–2

Machiavelli
93
,
150

Macrinus
44

Magi
10
,
14
,
17
,
32
,
41
,
53
,
56

Mahmud Ghilzai
151
,
152

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

Mani/Manichaeism
51–6
,
61
,
78

Mannaeans
2

Al-Ma’mun
83
,
84
,
85

Al-Mansur
81
,
83

Marathon
24

Marduk
13–14
,
26

marja-e taqlid
175
,
245
,
247
,
268
,
277

Mark Antony
39–40
,
41

Maryam Begum
144
,
148
,
149
,
151

Mashhad
132
,
137
,
153
,
168
,
190
,
212
,
216
,
232
,
260
,
261
,
263

mashruteh
207–13

Massagetae
15

Maurice
66
,
67

mawali
78

Mawlana see Rumi

Mazanderan
3
,
143
,
168
,
170–1
,
192

Mazdaeans, Mazdaism
7–11
,
17
,
19–20
,
31–2
,
36
,
41
,
43
,
45
,
52
,
56–7
,
77

Mazdak, Mazdakites, Mazdakism
15
,
62
,
64

mazhab
85
,
86

Mecca
68
,
72–3
,
74
,
75
,
79
,
96
,
125
,
151

Medes, Media,
xvi
,
4–5
,
10
,
21
,
26

Medina
68
,
73–4
,
125

Mehran
36
,
66

Military Revolution
162
,
141

Merv
77
,
80
,
103–4

Mesopotamia,
2
,
11
,
23
,
33
,
35
,
37
,
43
,
45
,
47
,
51
,
52
,
58
,
69
,
76

Millspaugh, Arthur
227
,
237

Ministry of Infor mation and Security (MOIS)
270
,
283–4
,
293

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
281

Labienus
39
,
40

Lahore
106

land reform
246–7
,
251

Latin
1
,
6
,
7
,
85

Lebanese Hezbollah
272
,
278
,
290
,
293

Leonidas
26

Lermontov
181

Lewisohn, Leonard
vii
,
147
n,
302
n,
303
n Lezges
160
,
161
,
184

Lors
222
,
249

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

Moghan plain
157
,
173

Moghuls
121
,
141

Mohammad
5
,
54
,
68–9
,
72–5
,
96
,
125–6

Mohammad Ali Shah
210
,
212

Mohammad Ghuri
106

Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar
163
,
168

Mohammad Reza Shah
234
,
236
,
244–6
,
259

Mohammad Shah
189
,
191
,
192

Mohammad, Sultan (Khwarezmshah)
103
,
104

Moharram,
xiv
,
176
,
205
,
246
,
262

Moin, Baqer
vii
,
309

Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO)
255

mojtahed
174
,
175
,
200
,
205
,
210
,
211
,
220
,
249
,
258–9
,
266
,
276

Molla Sadra
138
,
249

monafeqin
271

Mongols
18
,
101–6
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
129
,
142

Montazeri, Hosein-Ali, Ayatollah
259
,
277–8

Moses
5
,
10

Mossadeq, Mohammad
228–9
,
239–43

mostazefin
268
,
279
,
280

Mosul
5
,
12
,
159

Motahhari, Morteza
268

Mottahedeh, Roy
255

Mozaffar od-Din Shah
203
,
207

Mu’awiya
79
,
126

Multan
106

Mu’tazilis
85
,
97
,
174

Mycale
26
,

Nabonidus
14
,