The Mameluke; or, Slave dynasty of Egypt, 1260-1517, AD . said to have been sorry for him ; but theCaliph could hardly have been much missed at Sultans appreciation of learning is shown byhis treatment of the historian Abulfeda, and hisrestoration to the government of Hamah, originallyconferred on the family by their ancestor Saladinsbrother. Given the title of Sultan, he was investedwith the trappings and emblems of royalty, androde as a prince through the streets of his highest titles were assigned to him by Nasir,who even addressed him as brother,—a singularinstance of th
The Mameluke; or, Slave dynasty of Egypt, 1260-1517, AD . said to have been sorry for him ; but theCaliph could hardly have been much missed at Sultans appreciation of learning is shown byhis treatment of the historian Abulfeda, and hisrestoration to the government of Hamah, originallyconferred on the family by their ancestor Saladinsbrother. Given the title of Sultan, he was investedwith the trappings and emblems of royalty, androde as a prince through the streets of his highest titles were assigned to him by Nasir,who even addressed him as brother,—a singularinstance of the Sultans trust and favour towardsa powerful Kuler continued to the end. For Nasir was jealous even of his own Sons, sothat till the eve of his death he nominated none ashis Successor. Ahmed, the eldest, a wretched speci-men of slavery to the lowest forms of vice, wasbanished to Kerak as his father failed to sever himfrom the company of a memluke youth. Anuk,another son, clung similarly to a singing girl. In 1341 Nasir was seized with an MINARET OVER MOSQUE OF ^ASIU IBN KILAWUN. nasirs third reign 85 which gradually increased till he used to fall off into These he sought to conceal, but stillalarming reports created serious disturbances inthe city. The two leading ministers, Beshtak andKausun, both married to daughters of the Sultan,but at deadly feud against each other, sought totake advantage of the emergency ; and this stateof things, prolonged from day to day, hurried onso dangerous a crisis that the dying monarch atlast summoned a Council, and in their presence June,invested his son, Abu Bekr, with the sword of day or two after, with pious and repentant sighs,he died at the age of fifty-eight, having been forty-eight years Sultan ; but of these, his own master,only thirty-two. A great Prince, whose tyranny and oft-repeateddeeds of cruelty cast into the shade his virtues,Nasir died with a name more feared than without
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