Mar Shimun Sulaqa, VIII Patriarch of Church of the East, 76

Mar Shimun Shlemoun XVI, Patriarch of Church of the East, 79

Mar Shimun Yonan XVIII, Patriarch of Church of the East, 79

Mar Yokhanan monastery, 77, 86

Marcian, Roman Emperor, 55

Mari, 21, 35, 57, 82

Mari bn Sulaiman, 32

Maronites, 64, 82

Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, Theotókos,, 52, 54

Medes, 90, 107

Memnon, Bishop of Ephesus, 53–54

Mesopotamia, 14, 16–21, 24–26, 28–30, 32, 47, 49, 56, 63, 71, 73–74, 81, 92–96, 99, 102, 107, 115, 158, 160, 163, 165–166, 172–174, 196, 215–216, 236, 248, 264, 279, 283, 285, 302–303, 305, 309, 311–312, 314

Middle East, 61–62, 71, 97, 126, 156–157, 218, 282

millet system,, 82, 140–143, 152

Minayanish, 41

Mongols, 14, 16–17, 21, 63–64, 96–97, 109

Monophysites, 58

Mosul, ix–xii, 2, 4, 7, 11–12, 15–20, 24–25, 28, 30, 37, 41, 75, 80, 82–83, 93, 96, 98, 101, 148, 165, 170–173, 179–180, 185, 192–193, 197–198, 200–206, 209–211, 216–228, 230–231, 233, 240–246, 253, 255, 258–261, 263–271, 275

Mosul vilayet (pashalic), xii, 35, 81–82, 115, 160, 170–171, 174–175

Mosul vilayet (pashalic) (continued), 177, 181–184, 195–196, 199, 201, 216

Mount Asheetha, 3

Murad IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 101–102, 143

Muhammad Ali, Ottoman pasha (or viceroy) of Egypt, 120, 126, 142, 155, 176, 222–223

Muhammad Amin Zaki, historian of the Kurds, 30, 90

Muhammad Malik Shah, Sultan of the Seljuk Empire, 90, 94

mullah,, 171, 219

Mush, 99, 103

Muslims (Mohammetans, Mohamedans, Musselmans), passim

Naayem, Rev. Joseph, 35

Nadir, Shah of Persia, 101–105, 111, 115, 158, 163, 283

Natir Kursi, guardian of the office of Patriarch of Church of the East, 36, 75

Nestorians, passim

Nestorius, Archbishop of Constantinople, 52–59, 280

Nicene Creed, 62

Nineveh, 4, 12, 14–15, 19, 22, 24, 28, 30, 32, 41, 83–84, 95, 172–173, 208, 279, 283–284

Ninevites, 23, 28

Nisibis, 18, 55–57, 92

Noor Allah Bey, Mir (Meer) of Julamerk (Julemerik), 164, 203, 273

Ottomans, passim

Ottoman Empire, 13, 71–74, 80–82, 100, 103, 113–116, 124, 126