Aaron (Hārūn), brother and legatee of Moses, 206

Abd al-Ahad (1885–1910), amir of Bukhārā, , 65

Abd al-Ramān Khān (d. 1901), Afghan king, , 2, 53, 101–102

Abraham, 13, 17, 170–171, 205–206

Adam, 13, 17, 22, 166–168, 171, 176

ālam-i dīn (religious universe), , 163, 165, 167, 176, 179, 183

Alī b. Abī ālib (d. 661)

Alī, , 30, 162, 166–167, 177–178, 199, 203, 205, 219

Murtaā, , 153, 174, 198

Shāh-i Mardān, , 19, 30

Shāh-i Wilāyat, , 163, 164, 198

Alī b. Asad (eleventh century), local Badakhshani ruler, , 11, 32, 34, 48

Al-Bīrūnī, early Islamic scholar and scientist, 55

Al-Thaālibī (d. 1038), early Islamic author, , 28

akābīr (army noble), , 59–60

aks-i mubārak (sacred picture), , 46

Ansārī, Abdullāh (d. 1089), Sufi author, , 72, 110

ārāmgāh (lit. place of tranquillity, i.e., tomb), , 45

aql-i kull (universal intellect), , 75, 114–115

ārif (gnostic), , 129, 153, 167, 180

āshiq (lover), , 119, 129, 135, 137, 153, 177

āshūrā (commemoration of Imam usayn), , 5, 44, 52

āstān (threshold, shrine), , 48–49

Aār, Farīd al-Dīn (d. 1220), Sufi master, , 8, 24, 98

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), Islamic philospher and scientist, 211

Azāzīl (Azrail), , 75

Badakhshī, Sang Muammad, , 14, 23, 26

bakht-i nakū (good fortune), , 117, 119

bāin (esoteric), , 3, 9, 17, 76, 147, 163, 165

Bertels, Andrey, author, 3–4

Bīdil, Mirzā Abd al-Qādir (d. 1720), Persian poet, , 55, 131–132

Bistāmī, Bāyazīd (d. 875), Sufi master, 84

Bukhārā, 28–29, 55

buzurguvār (saint), , 44, 60, 70, 190

charāgh-rūshan, indigenous custom, , 5, 42, 51, 58, 68

chihil dunyā (forty worlds), , 10, 17, 131, 161

chilla-khāna (chamber of retreat), , 68, 72, 79

chilla-nishinī (forty days of spiritual retreat), , 16, 79, 82–83, 187

Corbin Henry, author, 193, 210

dād-i aqq (divine gift), , 136

dānish (knowledge), , 117–118, 122

dānish-mand (educated person), , 63

Dār al-Salām (the world of peace), , 192, 194