CONTENTS 



OF 

 THE SECOND VOLUME, 



CHAPTER I. 



THE ABBASSIDES, OR CALIPHS OF BAGDAD, 



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

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

 cious Craeltyof Motawakkel — Magnificence of the Caliphs — 

 Weakness and Corruption of their Government — Their MiU- 

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

 cessors with the Romans — Victories of Nicephonis Phocas 

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

 fall of the Abbassides — Despotic Power of the Turkish Guards 

 — Ravages and Cruelties of the Karmathians — Dismember- 

 ment of the Empire into independent Principalities — Persia 

 usurped by petty DjTiasties — Conquests of Mahmoud of 

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

 pointed Viceroy of the Mohammedan Dominions — Hookku 

 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 SPAIN. 



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 Saladm, Founder of the Ayubites — 

 Dynasty of the Ommiades in Spain founded by Abdalrahman 

 — Their Power and Magnificence — Extinction of the Caliph 



