This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV RElGN OF HISCHEM ll. 976-1012 Origin of Ibn-abi-Amir-Al-Mansur--The Scene in the Garden-- Genius and Attainments of the Youthful Statesman--His Sudden Rise to Power--Influence of the Eunuchs--Their Conspiracy Detected--Ibn-abi-Amir aspires to Supreme Authority--He is appointed Hajib--Ruin ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV RElGN OF HISCHEM ll. 976-1012 Origin of Ibn-abi-Amir-Al-Mansur--The Scene in the Garden-- Genius and Attainments of the Youthful Statesman--His Sudden Rise to Power--Influence of the Eunuchs--Their Conspiracy Detected--Ibn-abi-Amir aspires to Supreme Authority--He is appointed Hajib--Ruin of his Rivals-- Reorganization of the Civil and Military Service--Systematic Degradation of Hischem--The Palace of Zahira-- The Hajib becomes Master of the Empire--Successful Wars with the Christians--Disturbances in Africa--Destruction of Leon--Sack of Santiago--Death of Al-Mansur --His Great Services to the State--His Unbroken Series of Military Triumphs--Al-ModhafFer--Abd-al-Rahman--Mohammed--Suleyman--Disappearance of Hischem--Rapid Disintegration of the Empire. Simultaneously with the accession of Hischem II. a gigantic and ominous figure, like a portentous spectre, at once the impersonation of glory and the harbinger of ruin, appears upon the theatre of action in the Peninsula. Under the two preceding sovereigns the Moslem Empire of the West had made unparalleled advances in useful knowledge, in commercial prosperity, in all the arts which raise nations to the most exalted rank in the scale of civilization. Peace reigned everywhere within its borders. The tendency to sedition, which had so long obstructed its prosperity and depleted its population, had been vigorously and successfully repressed. Justice, untainted with even the suspicion of corruption, and which was no respecter of persons, was dispensed by its tribunals. Its system of education and its results were the wonder of the age. The achievements of its learned men, who were scattered over Europe, had caused them to incur the suspicion of, and, in some instances, even to...
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