Identifier: arabicspainsidel00whisuoft (find matches)
Title: Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Whishaw, Bernhard Whishaw, Allen Mary
Subjects: Art, Byzantine Arabs -- Spain Spain -- History
Publisher: London : Smith
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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is necessary traffic was conducted by ferry boats underrulers so advanced in civilisation as the Abbadites. At least one ofthe Abbadite palaces was on the right bank of the river, and it isrecorded that on one occasion (in the year 1063) when Motadid wasstaying in this palace, one of his sons rebelled, seized some treasuresfrom his fatliers palace, sank the boats used for crossing the river,\\ hich were arranged in the river before the palace (quae ante palatiumin flmnine dispositse erant) and made his escape. (Abbaditea, i. 291-5.)Znniga tells us that there used to be a great chain of logs of woodlinked with iron rings, extending from the Torre del Oro to a wall onthe other side, the foundations of which existed in hLs day. (i. 22.)This chain of timbers might well have been the remains of Motamidsbridge of boats, and the position agrees with that of the boats sunk by the rebel prince, as the Torre del Oro was an outwork of the » Conde, u. 168 ; Makkari, ii. 297 ; AI-Marrakashi, 120.
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CHAPTER XVI THE BENI HUD AND MARDANISH In hog, when Yusuf Ibn Tashtin was dying at the age ofa hundred years, his last advice to his sou was that he shouldfix his Court at Seville, not Cordova ; that he should notdisturb the Masmudah and other tribes to the south ofMorocco ; and that he should conclude peace with the BeniHud, Sultans of Zaragoza.^ Conde gives substantially the same account of Yusufsdying advice, adding that he told his son not to make warunnecessarily (cf. the Law of Ah, p. 75). He adds thatthe mother of AH Ibn Yusuf was a Christian named Comaica,and his secretary Abu Mohammed, one of the sons of Motamidof Seville.2 Yusuf Ibn Tashfin is often described as a fanatic whosefirst thought was the furtherance of his own creed, but hisdying commands to his son hardly confirm that view of hischaracter. The choice of Seville as the capital was, weconjecture, due to its value as a sea port far inland, its im-portance as having been the de facto capital of Andalucia fornearly a

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