importance of Feisal at, 319

Trad ash-Sha’alan at, 335

Darb Sultani(road), 165, 173

Dardanelles, 137, 142

‘Da’ud’, see ‘Ali

Dawney, Lieutenant-Colonel Alan, 308, 310–12, 367

on Young as understudy, 315

ibn Dgaythir, and attack on Aqaba, 231

Dhami, 244

adh-Dhaylan, Mohammad, 226, 312

and attack on Aqaba, 231

ad-Din, Sa’ad, 245

Dinar, ‘Ali, 142

ad-Dizad, railway at, 234

Dodd, Francis, 109

Doughty, Charles, 57, 60, 156, 364

Dowson, Ernest, 131

Drubi, Zaki, and attack on Aqaba, 231

Dublin, 8

Duff, General Beauchamp, 143

Dufferin(ship), 166, 194, 261

ibn Dughmi, Durzi, 241

Ede, Jim, 348

Effendi, Ahmad, 73

Egypt, 93–108

excavations in, 94–5

‘elaboration’, 33

seealso lying and truth

Elgar, Sir Edward, 375

empathy, 25–6

Englishness, 88

Enver Pasha, 135

Espiegle(ship), 199

Euryalus(ship), 261

Evangelical Movement, 9, 12

Expedition House, Jarablus, 95–8

naked statue on, 111–12

Ezbekiyya Gardens, Cairo, 128, 129

al-Fa’ir, Sharif ‘Abdallah, 306

Fakhri Pasha, Hamid, 162–3, 189, 191, 215, 301, 305

Falmouth, 33

‘Farraj’, see Othman

al-Faruqi, Mohammad Sharif, 140

al-Fatat, 136–7

father-figure

Trenchard as, 14

Allenby as, 261

fatwa, declared on Allies, 135

Fayzi, Sulayman, 145

Feisal, 136–7, 156–7, 165–6, 187

in battle, 163

first meeting with Lawrence, 181–2

at Nakhl Mubarak, 191–5

attack on Wejh, 197–203

after Wejh, 206–7

as chosen by Lawrence, 207–8

esteem for Lawrence, 225

and capture of Aqaba, 228

at Dara’a, 319, 336

entering Damascus, 340

and Peace Conference, 346

Seven Pillarsin support of, 349

flagellation, 179, 369–70

Flecker, James Elroy, 34

Fletcher, Frank, 376

Fontana, Raff, 93, 121

food-tray, of Auda Abu Tayyi, 275

Forster, E.M., 28, 43, 365

Fox(ship), 160, 199, 200

Fuad Bey, 105

Galilee, 62–3

Gallipoli

mass landing at, 134, 137–8

failure of landings, 141

Garland, Major Herbert, 193

Garnett, Edward, 362, 363, 372

Gasim, missing in al-Houl, 236–9

Gaza-Beersheba line, offensive against, 276

Geographical Department, Military Intelligence, 122–3

George V, King, 343

Germans, at Carchemish, 93, 97, 99–101

Ghadir al-Haj, 250

al-Ghaffar, ‘Abd, 111

Ghalib Pasha, 161

al-Gharm, Sa’ad, 232

Gilman, Captain L.H., 291

Glubb, John Bagot, 357

gold, taken by Zayd, 307

Grand Continental Hotel, Cairo, 128

Graves, Philip, 139

Graves, Robert, 34, 43, 56, 73, 76, 102, 106, 122, 184, 306, 309, 360, 361

and Othman’s death, 309

Green, Leonard, 26–7

Greenmantle(Buchan), 132

Grigori, 81, 111

Gurkhas, 321–2

Guweira, surrender of, 253

Guy, R.A.M., 366

al-Hababeh, Mohammad, 302

Hall, Midge, 29, 41, 46, 75

Hallat Ammar, 269

Hama stone, 60

Hamed, 211–14

al-Hamid II, Sultan ‘Abd, 49, 106

Hammoudi, 86–7, 90–91

at Oxford, 109–11

admiration for Lawrence, 114

Hamra, 175

ibn Hamza, ‘Abdallah, 266

hand-to-hand fighting, 25

Hanum, Adlah, 54

al-Haraydhin, Talal, 283

Harb, 154

at jeddah, 160

Hardinge(ship), 160, 199, 200, 263

Hargreaves, Bertie, 376

al-Harithi, Nasir, 266

al-Harithi, Sharif ‘Ali ibn Hussain, 277–8, 321

Hartington, Lord, 131

Hashemites, Seven Pillars in support of, 348–9

Hatim, Dr Basil, 106

Haydar, Sharif’Ali, 166

Hedley, Colonel Coote, 122–3

Hejaz, 50, 51, 124, 153, 168–71

Britain and, 52–3

first mission to, 167–88

return to, 191

Helps to the Study of the Bible, 23

Herbert, Aubrey, 129, 132, 138, 144

Hittite(s)

cylinder-seals, 60, 69–71

as fantasy, 110

Hoare, Sam, 366

Hogarth, David, 58–61, 70, 101, 122, 141, 156, 355

at Carchemish, 78–90

Lawrence’s awe of, 84

in Cairo, 149

Holdich, Major G.V.W., 171

Holmes, Miss, 66–7, 102, 103–4

homosexuality, 26–7, 42–3, 76, 111–12, 233–4, 309

claimed as commonplace, 233

rape at Dara’a and, 297–8

approval of, 298

Hornby, Lieutenant, 311

al-Houl, crossing of, 235–9

Housman, Laurence, 26

Howaytat, as feud-ridden, 268

Huber, Charles, 176

Humber(ship), 264

Huon de Bordeaux, 28

ibn Hussain, Sharif ‘Ali, Emir of Mecca, 50–52, 106, 135, 165, 177–9, 210, 318

Bedu and Hejaz railway, 125, 156–7

letter from, 140

and British ‘decency’, 142–3

Hutaym, 154

Ibrahim Pasha, 105

al-Idrisi, 135, 136

Idylls of the King(Tennyson), 28

‘Intrusive’(Arab Bureau codename) 149

Irishness, 355

Isis(magazine), 113

al-Islam, Sheikh, 135

Ja’afar Pasha, 261, 264, 299, 300, 317

as Commander in Chief, 318

Jamal Pasha, 136, 137, 138, 156–7, 162

Jane, L.C., 40–41

Jarvis, C.S., 186

Jaudet, ‘Ali, 334

ibn Jazi, Hammayd, 227

ibn Jazi, Sheikh ‘Ar’ar, 226

ibn Jazi Howaytat, 248, 300

Jebayyil, 66–7, 102

Jeddah, 160, 167

Jefer, 249

Jerusalem, 298

Jesus College, Oxford, 40–42

Jews, 62–3

Jirwal barracks, attack at, 157–9

Jisr al-Hemmi, attack at, 276–7

Johns, Captain W.E., 359, 361–2

Joyce, Lieutenant-Colonel Pierce, 130, 184, 186, 209, 219, 229, 264, 316

in Cairo, 308

on Lawrence, 317

Juhayna, 154, 191

Junor, Lieutenant, 325

Justinian, Emperor, 113

Kalevala, 28

Kennington, Mrs Celandine, 12, 17

Kennington, Eric, 33, 377

Kenyon, Sir Frederick, 90, 93, 115

Kerak, 302

Khadra, surrender of, 253

Khairy Bey, 157

Khalfati, beating at, 107

Khallaf, 180

Khirbat as-Saba’ah, 304

Kilometre 149, raid at, 322–3, 328

Kilometre 589, raid at, 276

King-Crane commission, 345

Kirkbride, Lieutenant Alec, 85, 106, 186, 213, 307

on cruelty, 333, 334

Kitchener, Lord, 115, 118, 125, 126

death of, 149

knighthood, offer of, 343

Knightley, Philip, 370

Knowles, Pat, 376

Kut

stand at, 143–4

relief mission to, 147–8

surrender of, 148

Lama(ship), 168, 172

Laurie, Janet, 75–6

Lawrence, Arnold (Arnie) (brother), 25, 333

birth, 10

marriage, 30

Lawrence, Frank (brother), 24

birth, 10

death, 138

Lawrence, John (grandfather), 7

Lawrence, Montague Robert (Bob) (brother)

birth, 8, 23

domination by mother, 15–16

Lawrence, Sarah (mother), 7–8

qualities, 11–12

domination by, 15–17, 30

Lawrence, Thomas (father), 7–8, 13. 14

Thomas Chapman’s name-change to, 9

death, 355

Lawrence, Thomas Edward

family background, 7–10

birth, 10

childhood, 10–31

financial circumstances in childhood, 14–15

beatings by mother, 16

and pain, 17–18

emotional withdrawal, 18

schooldays, 21–31

at Boys’ High School, Oxford, 22–3

and masculinity, 25

and empathy, 25–6

and women, 27, 75–6

and medieval world, 27–8

family life, 29–30

lying and truth, 32–4, 70–74, 243, 291–5, 320

in Royal Garrison Artillery, 32–3

cycling, 35–6

in France, 36–9, 47–8

at Oxford University, 38–48

canoeing, 46

malaria, 48

and Young Turk’s revolution, 49–54

and Jews, 62–3

in Safed, 63

first shot at, 68

reports of murder of, 71

and ‘failure as sin’, 73

in Oxford, 75–9

proposal of marriage, 75–6

and Dahoum, 88–9, 109–11, 122

at Carchemish, 93–108

illness at Jarablus, 90–92

in Egypt, 93–108

at Kafr Ammar, 94–5

behaviour at Expedition House, 97–8

at Jebayyil with Dahoum, 102–4

speaking Arabic, 106

beating at Khalfati, 107

in Oxford with Dahoum, 109–11

last visit to Carchemish, 120–22

last sight of Dahoum, 122

in Cairo, 129–31

in Mesopotamia, 131–49

in Cairo Intelligence, 149

alienation of others, 131

his bravery, 138–9, 247–8

outbreak of Arab Revolt, 153–66

first mission to Hejaz, 167–88

dislike of ‘Abdallah, 170

camel-riding, 176

Sharif ‘Ali and, 177–9

first meeting with Feisal, 181–2

first closeness with Bedu, 185

as Propaganda Officer, 190

wearing Arab dress, 192–3

dislike of Vickery, 201

and executions, 211–14

sees desert as ally, 216

at Mudahrij, 222–4

meeting with ‘Ali and Othman, 232–4

crossing al-Houl, 235–9

search for Gasim, 236–9

and deception of Arabs, 240–41

and Arab Nationalism, 240

and ‘nobility’ of Arabs, 242–3

almost shot, 245

on bravery, 247–8

Mudowwara raid, 254–72

traverse of Sinai, 254–60

Allenby as father-figure, 261

Auda’s defection and, 262–3

and Operation Hedgehog, 263

attack on Mudowwara, 266–71

Yarmuk operation and Dara’a incident, 273–98

opportunities lost, 281

rape at Dara’a, 282–95

approval of homosexuality, 298

personal bodyguard and, 295–7

as personally unclean, 295

at Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, 298

shoots Othman, 309

massacre at Tafas and, 313–14, 330–34

quarrel with Young, 316

wounded, 325–6

and Peace Conference, 343–58

offer of knighthood, 343

writing of Seven Pillars, 346–51

in Who’s Who, 352

discovery of his real name, 355

as John Hume Rosss, 359–60

in RAF, 359–66, 372, 375

at School of Photography, Farnborough, 365

as T.E. Shaw, 367

enters army, 367

thoughts of suicide, 372

and speed, 374

death, 376–7

Lawrence, William (brother), 24, 110

birth, 10

death, 142

‘Lawrence of Arabia’, birth of myth, 173

Lawrence of Arabia (film), 332

Layard, Henry, 23

Lean, David, 332

Leeds, Edward, 36, 58, 69, 71, 77, 79, 97, 119, 122, 142, 272

on Dahoum, 110

on cruelty, 334

Liddell Hart, Basil, 14, 20, 25, 32, 58, 122, 181, 182, 292, 305, 363

honours and, 343

Lloyd, George, 57, 129, 132, 133, 138, 277

Lloyd George, D. (prime minister), 345

Lockman, J.N., 294

Logan, W.M., 131

love, 76

lying (and truth), 33–4, 246, 291–5, 302–6, 320, 333–5

to Bedu, 243

Sinai crossing, 259–60

food-tray, 275

at Dara’a, 282–95

Hubert Young, 288

personal bodyguard, 295–7

M.31(ship), 194

Ma’an, 119

Mack, John, 291, 334, 371

Mafraq, attack on, 328–9

malaria, 48, 64, 101–2, 141

Mamluks, 53–4

ibn Mansour, Muhsin, 160

al-Mansur, Ahmad, 180

bin Mansur, Ahmad, 165

mapmaking, 123

in Cairo, 131

masculinity, idealization of, 25

masochism, 17, 33, 107–8, 179, 332, 354, 370

al-Masri, Aziz ‘Ali, 164, 318

Mata’ab, 301

Mather, H.E., 32, 46

Maxwell, General Sir John, 133, 148

McGee, Sergeant-Major, 359

McMahon, Sir Hugh, 129, 137, 141, 144

Hussain’s letter and, 140

capture of Aqaba and, 228

Mecca, 153

Medforce, 137–8, 142

medieval world, 27–8

Medina, 215–17, 229

Feisal at, 182

Fakhri Pasha evacuates, 209

Meinertzhagen, Richard, 292, 294

Meissner Pasha, 124

Mesopotamia, 128–49

division of, 344

Meyricke Exhibition, Jesus College, 39–40

Mezerib, 326

al-Mezra’a, attack at, 306

Milli-Kurds, 105

mines, 220

at Mudahrij, 222–4

near Mudowwara, 268–9

at Kilometre 589, 276

at Ramleh, 312

at Nasib, 327

at Kilometre149, 328

Mint, The(Lawrence), 350

Miranshah, Afghanistan, 372

al-Misri, Azia ‘Ali, 168

Mohammad, Prophet, 53, 173

Moreton cemetery, 377

Morris, Jan, 21

Morris, William Henry (Lord Nuffield), 21, 35, 43–4, 139

Morrison, Walter, 101

Mousa, Suleiman, 246, 305

ibn Mubeiriq, Sheikh Hussain, 164, 175

Mudahrij, Lawrence at, 222–4

Mudowwara

raid on, 254–72

Lawrence’s choice of, 264

attack on, 266–71

al-Mukhlis, Maulud, 181, 183, 192

Murphy, Lieutenant, 322

Murray, Sir Archibald, 148–9, 169, 352

Murray, Edward, 367

Murray, General, 171, 189–90

Feisal writing to, 195–6

Aqaba and, 228

Musil, Alois, 275

Muttar, 154

an-Nahabi, ‘Abdallah, 297

Nahi Bey

homosexual rape at Dara’a, 283–4

as pederast, 285

Nakhl Mubarak, battle at, 194–5

Naqab ash-Shtar, 275

Nasib, railway at, 327

Nasir, Sharif, 334

and attack on Aqaba, 231

search for Gasim, 237

and capture of Tafilah, 299–300

Necho, Pharaoh, 81

Nelson, Flight-Lieutenant, 362

New, E.H., 61

Newcombe, Captain Stewart, 115, 116, 118, 129, 132, 133, 138, 190

Nicolson, Sir Harold, 19

Nietzsche, 19

Nineveh, excavation of, 23

Nixon, Sir John, 143

nobility, ideas of, 110

Nuffield, Lord (William Henry Morris), 21, 35, 43–4, 139

Nural-Bahr(ship), 209

Obeyd, Sheikh, 176–8

Ocampo, Victoria, 15, 16

Odeh, Reverend Nasar, 61

Odyssey, translation of, 374

Officers’ Training Corps, Oxford University, 58

‘Old Man’, invention of, 367–71

‘Old Syria’, Lawrence and, 240

Oman, Sir Charles, 41

Operation Hedgehog, 263

Orientalism, 112

Othman (‘Farraj’)

meets Lawrence, 232–4

death of, 308–9

Ottoman Empire

beginning of end, 49

entering war, 122

war declared on Britain, 127

Owen, Wilfred, 146

Oxford, 21, 38–48, 55–60, 75–9

family move to, 10

Dahoum at, 109–11

Hammoudi at, 109–11

pain, fear of, 17–18

Parker, Lieutenant-Colonel A.C., 141–2, 166, 172

Peace Conference, Paris, 343–58

Peake, Fred, 311, 321, 322

Pearson, Major Hugh, 207

Petra, 119

Petrie, Professor Flinders, 59, 94

Philby, St John, 350

Pilgrim Road, 279

Pirie-Gordon, Harry, 61

Pisani, Captain, 263, 319, 324

Poole, Reginald Lane, 41, 77

Portrait of Gray(Scott Tuke), painting, 33

press (media), 351

printing, 44–5

Prys-Jones, A.G., 41

‘Purity Campaign’, 9

Qadesh Barnea, 116

al-Qadi, Dakhilallah, 218–19, 221

at Mudahrij, 223

al-Qadi, Mohammad, 220

al-Qadir, ‘Abd, 278

desertion of, 279

Qusayma, 115–16

Raas Baalbek, 244, 246

Rabegh, 164–5, 176, 196–8

danger to, 168–9

Rajputana(ship), 373

rape, at Dara’a, 282–95

ar-Rashid, Hirun, 53

ibn Rashid, 136, 234

Raswan, Carl, 245

Raven(ship), 196

Rawlinson, General, 123

Reinach, Salomon, 78

reverse exhibitionism, 43, 360

Revolt in the Desert(Lawrence), 349

Reynolds-Ball, E.A., 61

Rhys, Sir John, 61, 72

Richards, Vyvyan, 36, 42–4, 57, 114, 120

and homosexuality, 233

on Raas Baalbek visit, 246

on cruelty, 333

‘Rightly Minded Caliphs’, 53

ar-Rikabi, ‘Ali Ridha Pasha, 245, 337

Robertson, General, 169, 260

Rolfe, F.W., 26

Rolls, S.C., 311, 322, 323

Roots of the Mountains, The(Morris), 45–6

Rosetta Stone, 80

Ross, John Hume, Lawrence as, 359–60

Ross, Major, 196

Royal Air Force, 319, 359–66, 372, 375

Royal Garrison Artillery, 32, 33

Ruskin, John, 40, 55–6

sadism, 332

Safed, 63

Safita, castle of, 67

Sahyun, castle of, 67

as-Sa’id, Mohammad, 339

as-Sa’id, Nuri, 164, 315, 319, 322, 325, 338

ibn Sa’ud, 136

ibn Salem, Mohammad, 275

Salih, Sheikh, 200

Sannaiyat, battle at, 147

Sardast, Rasim, 194, 210, 301

Sargon the Assyrian, 81

scars, claims of, 294–5

Scott-Higgins, 321, 322

Selim the Grim, Sultan, 54, 117

Senussi, 164

Seven Pillars of Wisdom(Lawrence), 167, 178, 179, 181, 211–12, 213

‘Ali and Othman in, 232

and search for Gasim, 237

and deception of Arabs, 241

al-Bakri in, 242

on Raas Baalbek visit, 246

Sinai crossing in, 255

and attack on Mudowwara, 267–8

and rape at Dara’a, 282–95

lying and truth in, 292–4

and personal bodyguard, 296

and Tafilah, 302

writing of, 346–51

sexual morals, ‘Purity Campaign’ and, 9

ash-Sha’alan, Nuri, 227, 245, 317

ash-Sha’alan, Trad, 324

Shah, Jemadar Hassan, 279

Shakir, Sharif, 218, 219–20

Shallala (Lawrence’s Spring), 265

Shararat, 154

Sharraf, Sharif, 192

Shaw, Charlotte, 17, 45, 56, 76, 247, 294, 295, 310, 361, 371

Shaw, George Bernard, 37, 291, 349, 354, 362, 363

Shaw, T.E., Lawrence as, 367

Sidon, 64

Simpson, Colin, 370

Sinai, 115–27, 259–60

traverse of, 254–60

Slieve Foy(ship), 253

Smith, George, 78, 80

Snow, John, 29

socialism, 78

speed, importance of, 374

sporting prowess, role of, 24–5

Staples, George, 335

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 9

Stewart, Desmond, 76

Stirling, Major Frank, 255, 272

and rape at Dara’a, 285

at Dara’a, 336

St Martin’s Church, Wareham, 377

Stones of Venice, The(Ruskin), 40

Storrs, Ronald, 35, 129, 168–70, 172–3, 291

‘Abdallah and, 126

relationship with Lawrence, 133–4

Hussain’s letter and, 140

and cowardice of Bedu, 195

Strange Case of Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde, The(Stevenson), 9

Suez Canal, 115, 126, 134

Jamal Pasha’s attack on, 138

suicide, 372

Sulayman the Magnificent, 54

Swann, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Oliver, 364

Swinburne, Algernon, 76

Sydney Smith, Clare, 27, 42, 56, 347

Sykes-Picot agreement, 143, 210, 240, 245, 317, 343

Syria

and Oxford, 55–74

and Britain, 109–114

division of, 344

Tafas

massacre at, 313–14, 330–34

in Seven Pillars, 333

Tafilah, 299–310

Ta’if, 160–62

Taleb, Sayid, 145

Tel Ahmar, 90

Tel ash-Shahm, 310–12

Tel ash-Shehab