Ottoman Empire (continued), 135–137, 139, 147, 156, 159, 163, 179, 202, 223, 250, 287

Patriarch, passim

Patriarchal Line of Mar Shimun, 76–80

Pelagian, 55

Pelagius, 53

Persia, 13, 21, 23, 50, 58, 77, 86, 90–91, 93, 96, 98, 100–101, 103–106, 111, 179, 185, 189, 240, 244–245, 247–248, 273, 276, 282

Persians, 37, 40, 59, 84, 90–91, 99–106, 143, 162, 187, 282

Pope Alexander VII, 78

Pope Celestine, 53, 55

Pope Eugenius III, 64

Pope John XXII, 64

Pope Julius III, 75

Pope Leo, 55, 58

Pope Urban II, 61, 63, 68

Portugal, 74

Protestant missionaries, 37, 205

Pushdor tribe of Kurds, 106

Qasha (priest),, 42

Qur’an, 135–136, 141, 149, 152

Rabban Hormizd monastery, 75, 77, 79, 82, 142

ra’es,, 34

Ra’aya tribes of Assyrians, 3–7, 13, 77, 114, 121, 137, 145–146, 158, 177

Roman Empire, 50, 51, 57–58, 61

Rome, 5, 34, 50, 61–64, 66, 73, 75–84, 282

Rum (Orthodox Christians), 140

Safavid Persian Empire (Safavids), 71, 74, 77, 98–100, 102, 163, 280–281

Salabikan, 41

Salah al Din (Saladin), 96, 109–110

Salakh, bishopric of Church of the East, 23

Salamas (Salamast), bishopric of Church of the East, 77, 187, 282

Sassanian Empire, 30, 51, 60, 91, 98, 280

Se’arat, mountain, 76

Se’ert (Seer, Seerta, Sert), 6, 83, 293

Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 98–102, 151, 163, 193, 281

Selim III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 116, 118

Selim Pasha, Emir of Baban, 104

Shaikhan, 160, 169, 173

Shapur II, Sassanian Emperor, 91

Sharaf Khan al Bidlisi, historian of the Kurds, 90, 99, 108

Si’arat, bishopric of Church of the East, 6, 77, 100, 195, 282

Sinjar, 20, 160, 169–170, 172–173

Second Council of Constantinople, 58, 280

Seleucia-Ctesiphon, patriarchate of the Church of the East, 57

Seljuk Turks, 60

Seljukids, 63, 94

shari’a (seri’at), 123, 129, 145, 147

Shi’a (Shi’i), 74, 98–99, 163, 280–281

Shimun Bar Mama, Patriarch of Church of the East, 75

Sir Charles Wilson, 6, 20, 22, 90