INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 



Aahmes, or Amasis, king of Egypt, 103. 



Aahmes II., or Amasis, king of Egypt, 237, 249. 



Aahotep, mother of king Amasis, 106. 



Aaron, Jewish high-priest, 130, 149. 



Aaron ben Elia of Nicomedia, Karaite Jewish writer, 



782. 

 Aaron of Britain, Christian martyr, 545. 

 Abas, king of Argos, 151, 153. 

 Abbo, astronomer, 655. 

 Abbot, John, naturalist in Carolina, 1050. 

 Abd, joint ruler of Oman, 600. 



Abd-al Cuvvy Ben Shedad, Persian medical writer, 791. 

 Abd-alkader, Arab writer, 897. 

 Abd-allatif, Arab writer, 446, 723. 

 Abdas, bishop of Suza in Persia, 562. 

 Abdastratus, Phoenician king, 185. 

 Abd-el Aziz Khan, thirty-third Turkish sultan, 107 1. 

 Abd-el-Hamid, twenty-eighth Turkish sultan, 1034, 



1043. 

 Abd-el-Medjid, thirty-second Turkish sultan, 106S, 



1071. 

 Abd-el-Melek, fifth Ommiad khalif, 612-14. 

 Abdemon of Tyre, 1S0. 

 Abd-er-Razzak, Khorassun envoy, 817. 

 Abdhaa, tobba of Yemen, 542. 

 Abd-Kelal, Christian tobba of Yemen, 542. 

 Abdulmelik, fifth Samani king of Bactria, 655. 

 Abeba, Egyptian military officer, 74. 

 Abel, son of Adam, 3. 



Abelard, Petrus, of Brittany, theologian, 687. 

 Abe-no Omi, Japanese admiral, 607. 

 Abha-tissa, king of Ceylon, 536, 53S. 

 Abhijit, Hindu king, 651. 

 Abhimanya, Tartar king of Cashmere, 411. 

 Abiasa, chief of the Hindu colony on Java, 570-72. 

 Abiasaph, or Ebiasaph, son of Korah, 146. 

 Abibal, Phoenician king, 179. 

 Abijah, or Abijam, king of Judah, 188, 191. 

 Abimeleck, son of Jerubbaal, 160. 

 Abishua, Jewish high-priest, 152. 

 Ablai, Calmuck prince, 792. 

 Aboo-Du-ad, Arab poet, 576. 

 Abraha, second Abyssinian governor of Yemen, 577, 



58S. 

 Abraham, the patriarch, 103. 

 Abraham Abulafiaben Samuel, or Raziel, Jewish kab- 



balistic writer, 752. 

 Abraham ben Ami, Arab writer, 629. 



Abraham ben Chijja of Spain, Jewish astronomer, 684. 

 Abraham ben David of Spain, Jewish writer, 703. 

 Abraham de Kaslar, of Catalonia, Jewish medical 



writer, 782. 

 Abraham Ibn Sahl, Arab writer, 723. 

 Abu Abdallah ben Khalif, 651. 

 Abubekr, first khalif, 601. 

 Abubekr, Memluk sultan of Egypt, 785. 

 Abu Hafsa, Jezid, Jewish physician, 601. 

 Abu Hanifa, Arab botanist, 644. 

 Abu'l Abbas, first Abbassid khalif, 620. 

 Abulafia, Meir, Jewish grammarian, 723. 

 Abu'l Barakat, Muslim missionary, 786. 

 Abu'lbaka Bedri, Arab writer, 831. 

 Abul Fatleh Lodi, Muslim ruler of Multan, 665. 

 Abu'l Fawaris, governor of Egypt, 656. 

 Abulfeda, Arab geographer, 775. 

 Abul Hasan, sultan of Ghazni, 676-77. 

 Abu'lkasem, or Abulcasis, Arab medical writer, 6S4. 

 Abu'lkasim of Balkh, Arab writer on Hindustan, 646. 

 Abul Rashid, sultan of Ghazni, 677. 

 Abul-Ryhan, or Albiruni of Byrun, 669. 

 Abu'l Salt Omaya, Arab medical writer, 703. 

 Abu Obeidah, Muslim general, 601-2. 

 Abu Obeydeh, Arab grammarian, 624. 

 Abu Saher, Arab botanist, 619. 

 Abu Sa'id, translator of the Bible, 684. 

 Abu Yazid Muhammed ben Yazid, Arab traveller, 647. 

 Abuzeid, Arab geographer, 5S6, 642. 

 Abu Zeyd, Arab grammarian, 624. 

 Abyan, Cahtan ruler of Yemen, 259. 

 Acacius, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, 548, 552. 

 Acacius, bishop of Constantinople, 56S. 

 Acamapitzin, first Mexican emperor, 790, 797. 

 Acastus, second archon of Athens, 191. 

 Accursius, jurist, 718 

 Acestor, Greek tragic poet, 281. 

 Achaeus, leader of a Greek colony, 120. 

 Achaeus, Greek tragic poet, 268. 

 Achan, or Achar, 149. 

 Acharius, Erich, Swedish botanist, 1055. 

 Aches, king of Egypt, 66. 



Achillas, seventeenth bishop of Alexandria, 546. 

 Achilles, Greek warrior, 170. 

 Achilleus, insurgent chief in Egypt, 544. 

 Achmed Abu'l Fetah, Memluk sultan of Egypt, 825. 

 Achmed.or Achmet, sixteenth Turkish sultan, 923, 935. 

 Achmed II., twenty-second Turkish sultan, 989, 991. 



