Identifier: mamelukeorslaved00sirw (find matches)
Title: The Mameluke; or, Slave dynasty of Egypt, 1260-1517, A. D
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Sir William Muir
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Publisher: Smith, Elder,
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
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the Sultan under arrest, and reappointed Hasanin his stead. 1354. Hasan had spent his season of seclusion and restraint, but with little profit, in study and de-votion. His second reign lasted six years. Becom-insf a miserable debauchee, he allowed his Emirs torule, — a succession of tyrants who practised in-conceivable atrocities.^ His Sultanate is bare ofincident, excepting a defeat at Mecca, and a fresh 1 Shicku, tlie Chief of tlie day, liad a deposed rival paradedthrough the city. After that (so we are told) his head was shaved andbored in various places : into the punctures venomous insects were in-serted ; then a burning brass plate was applied, which caused thecreatures to bore deeper in till the poor man died. Shicku paid thepenalty of his inhumanities, being cut down in Court. And yet he ispraised as an exemj)lary Believer, having not only endowed a theo-logical school with reciters of the Coran, but laboured with his ownhands at the pious work of building the cloister. Get
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MOSQUE AND TOMB OF SDLTAN HASAN, SON OF NASIR.(OTNARET TO LEFT, PART OF ORIGINAL BUILDING.) nasirs sons and grandsons 97 invasion of Armenia where Tarsus, Aclana and a.d. 1354.Massissah were seized and garrisoned by Moslemtroops. At last lie was attacked by his leadingEmir, Yelbogha, to whom he had given offence ; andhaving been cast into prison, was never seen again. Two grandsons of Nasir now succeeded to the I36i. March. Sultanate. First Mohammed son of Hajy, a youth offourteen, who after a couple of years was deposed aswanting, and kept in confinement. Shaban followed, 1363.a child of ten years, preferred as such to his fatherHosein, who himself never reached the throne. Hereigned (if one might use the word) fourteen years,longer in fact than any other of the family. In theconstant downfall of leading Emirs, and sad end ofthe Sultan himself, the tale differs little from thatwhich has gone before. The early years wereuneventful, the later stormy both at home andabroad. Yelbogha (Al

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