P.
'Pancha Tantra,' 151, 153, 183
Passion Play, the Arab, 6
Payne (John), description of his 'Nights,' 155, 156, 175, 177, 180
Pelly (Sir Lewis), a translator, 6
Periods of Arab literature—first, 25; second, 20; third, 106; of Arab history, 2
Persia, its severance from the Abbasides, 13
Persian Portraits, 151
Petis de la Croix, a translator, 154
Philologists, Arab 59
(Kasim bin Ma'an, Kutrub, Jahiz (Al), Shaibani (As),
Asmai (Al), Abu Obaida, Ansari (Al), Abu Othman,
Abul Aina, Ibn Kutaiba, Ibn Duraid, each indexed
separately.)
Philology, Arab, 59
Philosophers, Arab, 65
(Khalid bin Yazid, Kindi (Al), Farabi (Al), Ibn Sina,
Ali bin Ridhwan, Ghazah (Al), Ibn Bajah, Ibn Rashid,
Kosta bin Luka, Thaleb bin Korra, Tavhidi (Al),
Majridi (Al), each indexed separately.)
Philosophy, Arab, 64
Physicians, Arab, 72
(Georgios bin Bakhtyeshun, Gabriel bin Georgios,
Isa bin Musa, Maseweih, Yahya bin Maseweih,
Honem bin Ishak, Kosta bin Luka, Razi, Ibn Batlan,
each indexed separately.)
Places of learning, 105
Pococke, a translator, 97
Poem of the Mantle, by Kab bin Zoheir, 31, 33
Poem of the Mantle, by Al Busiri, 32, note
Poetry before Muhammad's time, 25, 28
Poetry, Collectors and editors of Arab, 76
(Mofaddhal (Al), Shaibani (As), Abu Zaid bin A'us,
Ibn as Sikkit, Muhammad bin Habib, Abu Hatim as
Sejastani, Abu Othman al Mazini, Abu Tammam, Bohton (Al),
Ibn-ul-Marzaban, Ibn Demash, Zukkari, Abu Bakr As-Sauli,
Abul Faraj al-Ispahani, each indexed separately.)
Poets, Arab, 28, 30, 77
(Amriolkais, Antara, Labid, Tarafa, Amru, Harath, Zoheir,
Nabiga, Kama (Al), Aasha (Al), Akhtal (Al), Farazdak,
Jarir, Abul-Atahya, Bashshar bin Burd, Abu Nuwas, Abu
Tammam, Otbi (Al), Bohtori (Al), Mutanabbi (Al), Nami
(An), each indexed separately.)
Printing presses of Arabic to-day, 118
Prophets mentioned by Muhammad, 133
Purgstall (Von Hammer), author and translator, 96, 155