CONTENTS 



OF 

 THE SECOND VOLUME. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE ABBASSIDES, OR CALIPHS OF BAGDAD. 



Accession of the Abbassides — Caliphs of that Dynasty — Aknan- 

 sor — Haroun al Rasehid — Almamoun — Motassem — Capri- 

 cious Cruelty of Motawakkel — ^lagnificence of the Caliphs — 

 Weakness and Corruption of their Government — Their' Mili- 

 tary Operations — Wars of Haroun al Rasehid and his Suc- 

 cessors with the Romans — Victories of Nicephorus Phocas 

 and John Zimisces over the Moslems — Causes of the Dovm- 

 fall of the Abbassides — Despotic Power of the Turkish Guards 

 — Ravages and Cruelties of the Karmathians — Dismember- 

 ment of the Empire into independent Principahties — Persia 

 usurped by petty Dynasties — Conquests of Mahmoud of 

 Ghizni in India — Irruptions of the Tartars — Togrul Beg ap- 

 pointed Viceroy of the Mohammedan Dominions — Hoolcku 

 lays Siege to Bagdad — Surrender and Pillage of that Capital 

 — "Death of Mostasem and Extinction of the Caliphate Page 9 



CHAPTER II. 



CALIPHS OF AFRICA, EGYPT, AND SPAIX. 



The Aglabites or Caliphs of Cairoan — Military Exploits of the 

 Western Arabs — Reduction of Crete — Conquest of Sicily — 

 Invasion of Italy — Pillage of Rome — Siege of Gaeta — Naval 

 Victory of the Christians — Subjugation of Corsica and Sardi- 

 nia by the Saracens — Expulsion of the Aglabites — Moorish 

 Kingdom of Timbuctoo — Dynasty of the Fatimites in Egypt 

 — Their Subversion by Saladin, Founder of the Ayubites — 

 DjTiasty of the Ommiades in Spain founded by Abdalrahman 

 — Their Power and Magnificence — Extinction of the Caliph- 



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