Imām-i Zamān (the Imam of the Time), , 9, 42, 77, 146, 176

Jabrā’īl (Gabriel), 75, 164, 167, 172, 178, 181, 183–184, 212

Jāmī, ‘Abd al-Ramān (d. 1492), Sufi author, , 189, 209

jawhar (substance), , 165, 176

Jesus Christ, 13, 107, 129, 163, 165, 174, 175, 177, 185

jihād, , 28, 69, 73

Judaism, 106, 171

Kabul, 39, 64

Karbalā, event (680), , 31, 51, 75

Karl Marx, 3

kātib (scribe), , 11, 15

khwājagī (household), , 57–58

khalīfa (local religious leader), , 8, 11, 43, 56–58, 60, 63, 90

khwānish (learning), , 117–118, 202

khayāl (imagination), , 84, 114, 119, 126, 137, 193, 210

khayriyyāt (alms-giving), , 58

khik (Wakhī), , 21, 64

Khir (mystic prophet), , 45, 75, 151–152, 173, 190, 193

Khorog, provincial town, 14, 31

khudāyī (serving free meal), , 44, 58

khūja (local religious clan in Pamir), , 11–13, 25, 33, 41, 59, 70, 109

marifat (divine knowledge), , 17, 115–117, 171, 187, 202

mashūq (Beloved), , 134, 146, 155

mādhūn-i aghar. See khalīfa

madô (devotional poetry and music), , 5, 9, 24, 51, 88, 109, 205

māl-i sarkār (religious taxation in Badakhshan), , 57–58, 112

malik (ruler), , 29

Malik Jahān-Shāh (Bābā Umar-i Yumgī), , 34

mastī (intoxication), , 70, 73, 101

Mawlānā (our Lord), , 38, 168, 170, 208

Mathnavī of Rūmī, , 88, 129–130, 157

maūm (sinless), , 153

mazār (shrine), , 30, 45, 48

Medina, 197, 199, 206

Mirāj (the Prophet’s spiritual ascent), , 132, 163, 165–167, 178, 180, 185, 194, 203

Mīkāil (Michael), , 75

mingbāshī (village representative of the mīr), , 60, 63

mīr (local political ruler), , 59–60

Mirzā Ābid, Mubārak’s scribe, , 14, 31

Moses, 13, 163, 172–173, 186, 207

Muhammad, the Prophet, 5, 73, 97, 105, 107, 152, 165, 172, 180, 210, 212

Muammad-Shāhī Ismāīlīs, , 13, 26, 38–40, 62

murīd (disciple), , 37, 50, 56, 57, 58, 61, 151, 155

Muafā (the Prophet), , 153

mustajīb (novice), , 56, 57, 59, 60, 109

mustaqarr (established Imam), , 13, 26, 39

mustawda (trustworthy Imam), , 13, 26

Nādir Shāh-i Afshār, 39

nafs-i kull (universal intellect), , 75

namāz (prayer), , 76–78, 143

Nāir-i Khusraw, , 6, 10, 14, 28, 31–35, 42