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Amm, Ahmad, 7 Arkoun, Mul)ammad, 7, 207
Arnina bint Wahb, 22, 24 Armenia, 15,87
'Arnir bin 'Abd Qais, 94 As'ad bin Zurara, 60
amending errors in mushafs, 96-97 Asa,222
Amon, 223 ascension, 297-8
'Amr bin Sa1ima al-jarmi, 56 asceticism, 289
'Amr bin Um-Maktum al-A'ma, 69 al-Asfahani, 192
'Amr bin al-'A~, 36,37 Asher, 214
'Amr bin Murra, 106 Ashnaq (early Makkan institution), 21
Amram, 214 'A~im al-jahdari, 103
Amuru, 15 'Asim bin Abl an-Najud, 161
Amwal muhajjara (early Makkan assassination attempt on the Prophet, 30
institution), 21 Assyrian rule ofJudah, 222
Anas bin Malik, 64, 89, 96, 176 Assyrian script, 234
Anbar (city), 36 Assyriology; 321
angels, 57 astigmatism, 288
Ansar al-Aswad al-'Ansl, 36
establishment of Aws and Kharaj, 18 al-Aswad, 202
support of in battle of Badr; 32-33 Aswan, tombstone, 125
as teachers of the Qur'an, 63-64 atba' at-tabi'ln, 177
Antiochus, 225 Athar of Abu Yusuf 178
anti-Semitism, 321-3, 339 Atjeyhnese people, 327
apostasy; 35 Atlantic Monthly, The, 3
'Aqaba, pledge of, 29-30 atonement, 297
Arabian peninsula, 15 Aws (tribe), 18, 31
Arabic 'Awwad, K, 116,316
diacritical marks, 139-41 ayah (verse) separators, 102, 111---4
dotting schemes, 135-9 Aysar (early Makkan institution), 21
early Arabic alphabet, 122-4 Azerbaijan, 87
early Christian Arabic manuscripts,
116
history of the Arabic characters, Baal, worship of in Israel, 220, 222-3
115-8 Babylon, 15,224
inscriptions on coinage, 128 Babylonian Talmud, 226
irregularities in non-Qur'anic script, alteration of text, 235
145-8 pointing (vocalization), 247-9
suitability of for Divine revelation, 164 Badr, prelude to the battle, 32-33
Arabs, 15-16 Bahrain, 36
as tribal society, 20-21 Bakr (tribe), 34
pre-Islamic religions, 22-23 baptism, 296
Aramaeans, 143 a1-Baqillani, 199
Aramaic Nabatean script, 115, 117 Bar Kochba, 252
compared with Arabic, 118-20 Bara', 61
language of the Nabateans, 120-1 al-Bara'a, sura, 83-84
Aramaic, 232-3 Barthelemy d'Hcrbelot, 330
archival of suhuf 84-85 Basetti-Sani, 11
'ard (muhaddithm term), 178 basmala, as sura separator, 109
'Arfaja bin Harthama, 36 Basra (city), 85
Ark of the Israelites, 218, 228-9 Bathsheba, 218-9, 229