INDEX

ākhir al-zaman, 20, 32, 43, 123

Al-Ghazālī, 70–72, 81, 161–162, 161, 164–165, 167, 172

angels, vii, ix, xi, 1–2, 5–8, 21, 39, 130, 132–135, 137, 161, 163, 167; ‘Azrā’īl, 164; Isrāfil, 158, 172

apiculture, x, 6, 16, 64, 76, 90, 115n2; in crisis, 103, 109

apitherapy, 45n12

apocalypse or apocalyptic, 3, 5–6, 21, 25, 34–35, 39, 44n2, 85, 87, 100, 109, 123, 143, 159, 160, 174–175, 179, 182; apocalypticism 3

artificial or supplemental feeding of bees, xi, 52, 53, 64, 81, 89, 102–103, 147

black locust, 30, 50, 51–53, 55, 57, 63, 66, 67, 68–69, 75, 76, 82, 89, 94, 104, 112, 125, 126, 127, 168

climate change, 44, 60, 63–64, 77, 96, 141, 146, 156n39, 159, 160; crisis, catastrophe, or disaster, 24, 59, 143, 148, 153n26; effects of, ix, x, 26; effects on honey ecologies, viii, 29, 52, 53, 64; effects on plants and pollinators, 28, 69, 81–82, 84n34, 87, 89, 91, 116n3, 145–146, 147, 156n40, 157n42, 179; and end times, 32, 43, 55, 100, 123–124; futures under, 2, 37, 122, 142, 143, 154n28, 175; policy, 144, 155n35; threats or risks, 3, 8, 122, 142; and UNDP, 155n36; and World Bank, 143

Čolić, Mustafa, xi, 21, 46n20, 46n23, 48n35, 72, 99, 100, 139, 188n14; on Imam Birgivi 21, 72, 139

disaster, 7–8, 23, 43, 57, 62, 97, 99, 122–123, 124–126, 141–143, 145, 154nn28–29, 155n35; quiet of, 34, 36

divine revelation, 20, 25, 26, 27, 48n35, 65, 97, 99, 100, 113, 121, 123, 128, 129–130, 136, 145, 149–150, 151, 161, 164, 166, 170, 173, 175, 176, 180, 181; to bees, 17–19, 33, 129; God’s self-revelation or self-disclosure, 6, 23, 27, 99, 166, 181

ecology or ecologies, 2, 38, 47n29, 87, 97, 149; of honey, viii, 3, 28–32, 53; near-end ecologies, 144–145; of pollination, 2

end times or final times, 3, 19–24, 26, 32, 65, 66, 123

eschatology, 4, 21, 38, 39, 44, 159–160, 174, 182n4; eco-eschatology, 6, 23–24, 27–28

false springs, 29, 127

fasād, 6, 123–124, 128–29, 133, 137, 140, 151–152

foraging, 15, 17–18, 23, 37, 51, 52, 55, 61, 88, 95, 99, 104, 105, 116n3, 146; extreme weather effects on, 30–31, 89, 126; forage fronts, 37, 51–53, 54, 69, 125; foragers, 27, 51, 56, 68, 75, 80, 90, 95, 107, 112, 116n3, 116n5, 126, 147; itineraries, 53, 68, 76

ghayb, 121–122, 130, 132, 134

hadith, vii, ix, x, 5, 17, 19, 20, 21, 26–27, 38, 44, 46n25, 66, 70, 71, 113, 166, 172, 173, 180; on planting, 85–86, 101, 109, 114

honey, 55, 57, 63, 67, 79, 90, 101, 102, 105, 107, 110, 112, 128, 137, 146, 149, 159, 168–169, 170; chances of, 61, 64, 69, 75, 148; flavors of, 52, 57, 67, 75, 78, 82, 127, 146, 169; flow, 2, 10, 51, 80; forecasts, 29, 63; as fruit of inspiration or revelation, 18, 26–27, 99, 121, 128, 136, 161, 181; as human nutrition and medicine, 6, 18, 86, 106, 115n2; importance for the hive, 14, 86, 95, 128, 149; strategies for catching or promoting the flow of, 3, 15, 28–29, 37, 53, 56, 64–65, 87, 94, 125; substitutes for, 87–90, 127, 128, 146; waning of, 2, 25, 52, 54, 72, 82, 87, 91, 103–104, 146

honeybees, x, xi, 23, 25, 53, 55, 67, 80, 94–95, 105–106, 109, 112, 123, 124, 126, 150, 159, 176, 182; climate futures of, 2, 91; community, society, or ummah, 16; decline or endangerment of, 26, 87–88, 116n3, 126, 161, 176–180, 183n40; and hive affairs, 31, 53, 57, 88, 95, 126, 127, 128, 152n7; and inspiration or revelation, 6, 16–18, 33, 99, 129–130, 181; invocation of, 9, 170–171; resilience of, 147–148, 157n42; swarms or swarming, 10–15, 181; world without, 177–180

honeydew, 55, 57, 75, 76, 82, 90

Ibn al-‘Arabī, xi, 74, 145, 181

indigo bush or false indigo, 55, 57, 62, 76, 111, 135, 168

insān or insan, 23, 99, 109, 132, 137, 139, 151, 177

invasive species, 28, 51, 110

Jerusalem thorn, 66, 73, 74–75

jinn, 39, 72, 109, 130–131, 132, 133, 134–137, 139, 176

kijamet. See qiyāmah or kijamet

linden: 55, 57, 63, 76, 82, 87, 89, 94, 104, 109, 112, 126, 146, 147

meadows, 69, 76, 77, 78, 82, 93, 101, 102, 104, 105, 126, 146, 147, 169

metaphysics or the metaphysical, 5, 22, 23, 25, 39, 48n29, 54, 60, 61, 65, 72, 80–81, 117n6, 160, 175

nafs, 46n24, 108–109, 121, 130, 135, 136, 138, 151

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, 46n25

plants, planting, or gardening: 3, 29, 46n25, 86–87, 91, 93–96, 100–101, 106, 109–115, 132, 145

pollen, 2–3, 28, 30, 32, 36, 37, 51, 53, 55, 62, 81, 82, 87, 91, 103, 148; in bee’s diet, 57, 89, 90, 94, 95, 102, 112, 116n5, 126–127, 128, 149; in human medicine and diet, 106; substitutes for, 67, 88, 102, 157n44

pollination, 2, 28, 81, 126, 159, 180, 183n38; crisis of, 178, 184n40

prayers or supplications, 10, 17, 54, 55, 61, 70, 71, 80, 130, 136, 145, 150, 167; the devil’s, 71, 131, 133

Prophet, the, vii, x, 4, 18, 21, 46n24, 71, 83n14, 85, 99, 145, 150, 153n18, 161, 180, 181, 183n26, 183n28

propolis, 95, 106, 118n16

qiyāmah or kijamet, 1, 8, 34, 35, 99, 109, 123, 158–159, 161–164, 168, 174, 176, 177

royal jelly or bee mother’s milk, 106, 116n4, 118n16

savory, 77, 80, 84n29

Shaitan, the devil, or Iblīs, 71, 124, 130, 133, 134, 136–140, 145, 151, 152

tawbah, 70–71, 83n13

venom, 106, 118n17, 149, 157n43

weather, 5, 36, 52, 55, 64, 70, 78, 80; catastrophic, extreme, or strange, 2, 7–8, 30, 35, 37, 121, 122, 123–124, 126, 143, 144, 146, 154n26, 156n39; effects of climate change on bees and plants, 6, 9, 28, 53, 63–65, 68, 79, 81, 84n34, 89, 91, 96, 126–27, 146–48, 149; Lucifer heatwave, 40–41, 122; May 2014 storm, 7–9, 124–126, 127, 142, 155n29; and nectar flow, 29, 37, 44, 53, 63; and seasons, 30