Iran: Empire of the Mind (57 page)

Nader Shah
18
,
153
,
156–67
,
168
,
173
,
175
,
177
,
181
,
186
,
187
,
223–4
,
234
,
279

nafs
98

najes
140
Nahavand
76

Najaf
175
,
178
,
210
,
211
,
223
,
248
,
249
,
258
,
273
,
291

Najmabadi, Afsaneh
309
n.

Nakhichevan
183

Napoleon
162
,
180
,
181
,
182
,
183
,
185

Naqsh-e Rostam
45
,
46
illus.,
48–9
,
57

Narseh
57

Naser-e Khosraw
91

Naser od-Din Shah
189
,
192
,
196
,
197
,
199
,
201
illus.,
202

Naser od-Din Tusi (astrologer/astronomer,

poet, polymath)
xiii
,
105

Nasser (President of Egypt)
243

Nassiri, General
267

Nasrollah (son of Nader Shah)
165

Natanz
295

National Front
239–40
,
241
,
245
,
247
,
257–8
,
259
,
262
,
266–7

Naus, Joseph
203–4

Navvab Safavi
238

Neanderthals
18
, Nebuchadnezzar
10
, Nehemiah
26

neoPlatonism
53
,
64–5
,
109
,
138

Nero
41

Nestorians
59–60

Nietzsche
11
,
56
,
303

Nineveh
5
,
69

Nisa
36

Nishapur
49
,
99
,
101
,
104
,
248

Nisibis
44
,
48
,
66

Nizam ol-Mulk (Hasan Tusi)
93

Nizami Ganjavi
98–99
nomads
3–4
,
8
,
44
,
51
,
61
,
73
,
105
,
118–20
,
161–2
,
169
,
185
,
193

Noruz (Persian New Year)
8
illus.,
21
,
178
,
230
,
285

Northern Alliance
288

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
294–5

Nuqtavi Sufis
137

Nuri, Mirza Agha Khan
196

Nuri, Nateq
282

Nuri, Shaykh Fazlollah
210–12

Odenathus
56

oil
xv
,
204
,
216
,
218
,
227
,
231
,
232
,
236–243
,
244–5
,
252
,
273
,
280

Oljeitu
106

Omar (Caliph)
112

Omar Khayyam
93–96
,
116
,
147

Ordibehesht
7

Ormuzd
45–6

Orodes
37
,
38–9

Ottomans
129
,
133–4
,
137
,
141
,
152
,
155–6
,
163
,
165
,
207
,
217–18
;
see also
Young Ottomans Oxyartes
31

Pacorus
39–40

Pahlavi (language)
51
,
72

Pahlavi dynasty
223
,
226–38

Pakistan,
xvi
,
129
,
275
,
295

Palestine
23
,
43
,
68
,
76
,
219
,
234
,
235
,
293–4

Palmyra
56

Panahi, Jafar
297

Papak (father of Ardashir)
45

Papak (9
^th
century rebel)
86

paradaida
17
,

parakandeh shahi
36

Paris, Peace of (1857)
196

Parker, Geoffrey
162

Parni
34

Parthia, Parthians
xvi
,
4
,
34–41
,
43–5
,
47
,
49

Pasargadae
xv
,
15
,
20
,
256

Pasdaran (
Sepah-e Pasdaran
) see Revolutionary

Guard Corps Pelagius, Pelagianism
55
,
56
,
301

Pelopponesian Wars
26
people of the Book
77
,
133
,
140
,
144
,
284

Perfect Man (
al-insan al-kamil
)
109–10
,
265–6
,
303

Peroz
61

Persepolis
xv
,
20–1
,
22
,
26
,
30
,
172
,
256
; in Marlowe
255

Persian Gulf
3
,
43
,
129
,
135
,
161
,
191
,
216
,
231
,
233
; in Iran/Iraq War
273

Persian language
1
,
71–72

Peter the Great (Tsar of Russia)
152
,
163

Pharisees
111

Philip of Macedon
28–9

Philip the Arab
48

Phocas
67–8

Phoenicia
12
,
25

Phraates
35
,
36

Plato, Platonism
9
,
25
,
42
,
52
,
53
,
64
,
65
,
84
,
96
,
108
,
109
,
138
,
303

Plataea
26
,

Plotinus
53

Plutarch
38

Pompey
31
,
37

population
xiv
,
161
,
169
,
193
,
245
,
252
,
280

Punjab
31
,
41

Purandokht
69

Qadesiyya
76
,
89

Qajars
135
,
163
,
170–1
,
172
,
178
,
185–7
,
189–209
,
212
,
223

qalandar
99
,
108

qanat
51

Qanun
(newspaper)
199–200

Qara Qoyunlu
121
Qarmatians
129

Qashqai tribe
217
,
227

Qazvin
134
,
138
,
178
,
192
,
221
,
222
,
262

Qezelbash
121
,
130–4
,
135
,
137
,
142
,
153

Qom
77
,
129
,
132
,
137
,
206
,
247
,
249
,
250
,
259
,
261
,
263
,
275
,
291

Qor’an
73
,
74
,
75
,
78
,
82
,
85
,
96
,
101
,
109
,
113
,
125

Qorrat al-Ain
192–3

Qumran scrolls
11

Rabinyan, Dorit
304

Rafsanjani see Hashemi-Rafsanjani

railways
196
,
227–8

Ramadan
74
,
262

Al-Rashid, Harun
86

Rashid Al-Din
117

Rashidun
76

Rastakhiz
255
,
262

Ray
78
,
103

razm o bazm
142
,
90
,
104

Razmara, Ali
239–40

Rend
95

Reuter, Baron de
197–8

Revolutionary Guard Corps
268
,
269
,
289

Rex Cinema (fire)
261–2

Reza Khan
213
,
221–4
,
225

Reza Pahlavi (son of last Shah)
227
,
234
,
291

Reza Qoli
160
,
166
,
167

Rizvi, Sajjad
vii
,
304

Rome,
xv
,
31
,
37–41
,
47
,
48
,
56
,
58

Rommel, Field-Marshal Erwin
232

Rostam
39

rowzeh-khan
176

Roxana
31

Rudaki
88–89

Rum
100
,
105

Rumi
106–8

Rumsfeld, Donald xiii