navkar (guard), , 59–60, 63

nīstī (annihilation), , 71

Niām al-Mulk (d. 1092), , 28, 32

Nizārī Ismāīlī Imams (Qāsim-Shāhī and Muammad-Shāhī branches)

Alā Dhikrihil- Salām (d. 1166), , 77, 207

Amir Musharraf (d. 1764), 39

asan b. Sayyīd Alī, , 30

asan Alī Shāh (1804–1881), , 13, 155

Rukn al-Dīn Khurshāh (d. 1257), 130

Shāh Rāī al-Dīn (d. 1509), , 38

Shāh Khalīl Allāh (d. 1871), 43

Sulān Muammad Shāh (d. 1957), , 18, 26

āhir Shāh, , 39, 65

Noah, 13, 163, 165, 169, 170, 205–206

nubuwwat (prophethood), , 18, 163, 165, 168, 174, 183, 204

nujūm (astrology) , 64, 92

padar-khwānd (godfather), , 68

Panj-Tanī (the Fivers), , 6–7, 21, 23, 36, 41, 104, 165, 178, 200, 204–205

pīr (master, guide), , 6, 33, 36–37, 40, 56–60

pīrān-i marifat (masters of gnosis), , 41

pirship, , 8, 40, 56, 58, 118

pisar-khwānd (godson), , 118

pīsh-vāz (porch), , 68–69

principality, 14, 53, 59, 63

qāī (judge), , 59–60, 63, 65, 101, 109

al-Qāī al-Nūmān (d. 974), Ismāīlī jurist, , 77, 111, 148, 206

Qandīl-Nāmā (Candle Book), , 42–43, 51

qaāid-khwānī (reciting qaīda songs). See madô

Qāsim-Shāhīs of the Aga Khan, 13, 38, 40, 56

Rābia al-Adawiyya (d. 801), female Sufi sage, , 135

ramziyyāt (symbolism), , 92, 94

rastī (awareness), , 71

raiyyat (commoners), , 59, 201

rubāb (six-stringed lute), , 89, 90

Rūdakī, Abū Abd Allāh, Tajik-Persian poet, , 3, 28

Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn (d. 1273), 8, 24, 87–89, 125, 129–130, 134, 140

rūza (fasting), , 77

sabk-i hindī, Idian style of Persian poetry, , 21, 85, 128

āli, Khwāja, local pīr, , 38–40

sadda, district division in Wakhan, , 59

āib dilān (the possessors of the heart, i.e., Sufis), , 149, 171

Sāmānīds (872–999), Persian dynasty, 28, 47

Sāmānī, Nār b. Amad (914–943), , 28

Samarqand, 28, 29

Sanāī, akīm (d. 1131), , 199

sang-i āftāb-bīn (observation stone), , 94

sang-i nishān (signpost stone), , 94

sarbadār (military chief), , 39

Satan (Iblis), 17, 125, 132, 142, 186

Sayyid Sūhrāb-i Valī (Sayyid Alavī), 12, 25, 33, 34, 38, 49, 70

shadda. See āshūrā

Shāgun (Navrūz, i.e., Persian New Year), , 92, 94

Shāh Nimatullāh-i Walī (d. 1431), Sufi Shaykh, , 4, 42, 51