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Title: The sword of Islam
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wollaston, Arthur Naylor, Sir, 1842-1922
Subjects: Islam -- History
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton and Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ered, and in a.d. 1235they were finally driven out of the Peninsula. Little now remained to the Moors in Spain save thekingdom of Granada, where an Arab chieftain knownas Ibn al Ahmar, or the Son of the Eed Man,so called from the fairness of his skin and the colourof his hair, founded a dynasty destined to last for noless than two centuries and a half Great as wasthe magnificence of Cordova, its fame was equalled,if not eclipsed, by the glories of its rival, Granada,which has been immortalised by the far famed RedPalace of the Alhambra, thus named from thecolour of the soil which surrounds it. Commenced inthe thirteenth century, this wonder of the world wascompleted in the fourteenth century. Its beauties,its famous Court of the Lions, and little less beautifulCourt of the Myrtles, its balconies, its terraced roofs,its lofty battlements are familiar to all readers ofWashington Irvings well - known work, whichdescribes his visit to the spot at the commencementof the nineteenth century.
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A.n. 1492) KOABDIL THE UNLUCKY 177 The writing, however, was on the wall. Aboutthe year 1481 of the Christian era, the marriage ofFerdinand and Isabella united the provinces ofAragon and Castile, and gave to the Christians ofSpain a power of which their dissensions had for along period of years deprived them. The Moors werekeenly alive to the danger to themselves which thisalliance was likely to occasion, and resolved to takethe initiative by refusing to pay the accustomedtribute. Tell your sovereigns, such was the fierylanguage of the Ruler of Granada, that the kingsof Granada who paid tribute are dead; our mintnow coins nothing but sword-blades. Thus ithappened that once again the dogs of war were letloose on the land. The result was never really indoubt; for though success at first attended theMoorish arms, they were in the end (a.d. 1492)completely vanquished, their king, Boabdil, theUnlucky (more properly Abu Abdullah), wasdethroned, and Granada passed into the possessionof the C

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