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Page 193
... Caliphs old , who on the Tygris ' shore In mighty Bagdad , populous and great , Held their bright court , where was of ladies store ; And verse , love , music still the garland wore . THOMSON . Ar the commencement of the eighth century ...
... Caliphs old , who on the Tygris ' shore In mighty Bagdad , populous and great , Held their bright court , where was of ladies store ; And verse , love , music still the garland wore . THOMSON . Ar the commencement of the eighth century ...
Page 195
... Caliph of the race of Abbas , not willing to reside at Damascus , the former capitol of the house of Ommiah , laid the foundations . of Bagdad A. D. 762 , the seat of his posterity during a reign of five hundred years . Nearly about the ...
... Caliph of the race of Abbas , not willing to reside at Damascus , the former capitol of the house of Ommiah , laid the foundations . of Bagdad A. D. 762 , the seat of his posterity during a reign of five hundred years . Nearly about the ...
Page 196
... Caliphs of Arabia , aspired to rival and to surpass the magnificence of the Persian Kings . The treasure left by Almansor , amounting to thirty millions sterling , was in a few years exhausted by the munificence and ostentation of his ...
... Caliphs of Arabia , aspired to rival and to surpass the magnificence of the Persian Kings . The treasure left by Almansor , amounting to thirty millions sterling , was in a few years exhausted by the munificence and ostentation of his ...
Page 197
... Caliph's whole army says Abulfeda , " both horse and foot , was under arms , which together made a body of one hundred and sixty thousand men . His state - officers , the favorite slaves , stood near him in splendid apparel , their ...
... Caliph's whole army says Abulfeda , " both horse and foot , was under arms , which together made a body of one hundred and sixty thousand men . His state - officers , the favorite slaves , stood near him in splendid apparel , their ...
Page 198
... caliph's throne . " t Nor was the splendour of the Ommiades of Spain at all inferior to the Abbassides of Bagdad ; in the same period that Caliphat produced a revenue of six millions of sterling money , a sum which in the tenth century ...
... caliph's throne . " t Nor was the splendour of the Ommiades of Spain at all inferior to the Abbassides of Bagdad ; in the same period that Caliphat produced a revenue of six millions of sterling money , a sum which in the tenth century ...
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