Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art . uwallads rose against the ruleof their racial and rehgious enemies the Ommeyads, whow^ere Sunnites of the race of Mudar, and continued the struggleuntil a prince combining the blood of the two opposed peoplesascended the throne, when they at once submitted to in 1009 it was the Mudarites who rose against a monarchof their own race, the last of the direct line of the Koraishitekings of Cordova, and it was the Yemenites and the descend-ants of the Muwallads who protected and supported is explicitly stated that the dethronement of
Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art . uwallads rose against the ruleof their racial and rehgious enemies the Ommeyads, whow^ere Sunnites of the race of Mudar, and continued the struggleuntil a prince combining the blood of the two opposed peoplesascended the throne, when they at once submitted to in 1009 it was the Mudarites who rose against a monarchof their own race, the last of the direct line of the Koraishitekings of Cordova, and it was the Yemenites and the descend-ants of the Muwallads who protected and supported is explicitly stated that the dethronement of Abderrah-mans grandson was brought about by the Mudarite Arabs,because of their jealousy of the Yemenites. Thus we havethe singular spectacle of the hereditarily hostile tribesmaintaining their loyalty to a ruler who was three genera-tions removed from their own blood, because his father andgrandfather had treated them well, while his own peoplerejected him and did their utmost to secure his death. Almansur died in August 1002. When the KhaUf was. ^H Hi bO . S HH -* =« 5^H-i CO O ,, O Oh OJ 3 i- IE i-i * s so ao c6 ^ •eg < IT) T3 fi CD S :S ^ ^J^ I bo T! O 6 is^ THE STORY OP HISHAM II. 181 informed of the fact he summoned to his presence a number ofcivil functionaries in order to announce to them the sadnews, but such was his grief that he could not utter a singleword, and he stood speechless, endeavouring to explain tothe assembly the fatal occurrence he had to communicate. Abdalmalek, Almansurs eldest son, who was in Cordovaat the moment of his fathers death, returned to Medina Celito find that Almansur had been buried in his palace some days he went back to Cordova, and the singingwomen of Almansurs harem put on hair-cloth sacks andcoarse blankets instead of the silk and brocade which theyhad been accustomed to wear. Hisham treated the son as he had the father : he himselfclothed him with a khilah or dress of honour, and signed hisappointment to the o
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