Living in Romantic Baghdad: An American Memoir of Teaching and Travel in Iraq, 1924-1947

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249 Index Adela Khanum,  Afghanistan, n Akkadian and other Semitic languages, xvin Amara,  American School for Boys, –; Board of Trustees, n; commissioned by missions, ; incorporated under laws of Maryland, n; independence, ; mismanagement, xi; students’ ethnic and religious plurality, n Arab-Jewish relations, – archaeological discoveries, xvi, –, n al-Askari, Jafar, , , – Assyrians, –, –, –n Babylon,  Baghdad: bazaars, –; in early Middle Ages, ; gardens, –; houses, , –; Jewish population, n; museum looting, n; museums , –; pontoon bridges, –; silversmiths, – Baghdad Railway,  Balfour Declaration, xiv Bani Tamin, – Barzinji, Sheikh Mahmud, – Basrah, – Bedouin tribes, –; Bani Tamim, –; education, ; landless multitude , –; Shammar, –; tribal council, – Bell, Gertrude, –; attendance at nadi meeting, –; creation of Iraq’s museum, ; funeral, ; opposition of total power to Iraqis, n Bickel, Harvey C., xi Bird, A. E. C., xixn bribery,  British high commissioner: garden party, – Bushehr, xviiin charms: against evil eye, – Christian refugees, –n Cox, Sir Percy (High Commissioner, Iraq, , – Ctesiphon, – Damascus, – Duhuk, – Faisal I, n, –, –; death and funeral, –; grandmother, –; support of Staudts, v, ; wife, – 250 • Index Faisal II: birthday celebration,  Faish Khabur,  feasts and holidays, – al-Gailani, Rashid Ali: pro-Nazi revolt, ,  al-Gailani, Sayyid Abdul Rahman,  Ghazi, King, – Great Desert Way, – Great Pilgrim Road,  Gulbeukian, Calouste, n Haifa: Iraq oil terminal,  Hamid, Abdul II (sultan), n al-Hashimi, Yasin,  Haskiel, Sir Sassoon, –; n, –, n Hatra,  Hoover, Herbert (former U.S. President ), n Iraq: archaeological paradise (see archaeological discoveries); Bedouin tribes, –; heterogeneity of population, ; land and air routes through, –; Nazi propaganda and uprising, –; nineteenthcentury background, xv–xvii; oil, –; scenic month in, –; war on Axis powers, ; weather,  Iraq Petroleum Company,  Islam: and Christian missions, n Jafar Pasha. See al-Askari, Jafar Jerusalem: “crusading color” of occupation , n Jews: Arab-Jewish relations, –; attacked, –, n; estimated population, n; weddings, – Kadhimain, ,  Karbala,  Kirkuk, xixn Kurds: Kurdish women, –, ; Kurdistan, –, –; nationalism , ; security and prosperity, n Kut,  Lebanon, xiii,  letter writers, – Mackenzie’s bookshop,  Marsh Arabs,  Mesopotamia, xvin missions, n Nairn busses, – Nazi-inspired coup d’état, n, – Nestorian Christians, –n New Testament, –n Nineveh,  oil, – Ottoman Iraq, xvii–xix Palestine and the Crusades (), n Polo, Marco,  Index • 251 Ramadi,  Rawanduz Gorge,  Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., n Russia: expansion of, xvii–xviii Rutbah Wells,  al-Sadr, Muqtada, xvn al-Sa’dun, Abdul Muhsin: suicide,  al-Said, Nuri, ,  Samarra, – San Remo Conference (),  serdab,  Shammar Tribe, – Shaqlawa: summer resort, –, n Shiah Muslims: coming of Twelfth Imam, n; passion play, –, n; Sunni attacks, n; Sunni discrimination, n Sidqi, Bakr, n Staudt, Ida D. and Calvin K.: arrival, ; background, xii–xiii; and Gertrude Bell, –, ; commissioned to start school, ; and first queen of Iraq, –; mission relations, n (see also missions); teaching in Beirut, xiii Suhail, Shaikh Hassan, n Sulaimania, – Sunni Muslims,  Surma Khanum, –,  Sykes-Picot Agreement, xiv tea drinking,  Thomas, Lowell, n Tigris River, n, –, , – Tripoli, Lebanon: Iraq oil terminal,  Turkish Petroleum Company,  Umm Kalthum, – United States, xix–xx; – weddings, – West/Western, xvii–xix, , – Willkie, Wendell: and goodwill for America, xxn Willcox, Sir William (irrigation engineer ), n al-Yawir, Ghazi, n Yazidis,  Young Turks, n al-Zawahiri, Jamil (Iraqi poet), ,  ...