. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. y all present the same history- of a rapidspreading, like a little watqf poured over agreat area, and then of superficiality andcorruption. In a little while we hear stories of an Omav-yad Caliph, Walid II (743-744), who mockedat the Koran, ate pork, drank wine, anddid not pray. Those stories may have beentrue or they may have been circulated forpolitical reasons. There began a puritanreaction in Mecca and Medina against thelevity and luxury of Damascus. Anothergreat Arab family, the Abbas family, theAbbasids, a thoroughly w
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. y all present the same history- of a rapidspreading, like a little watqf poured over agreat area, and then of superficiality andcorruption. In a little while we hear stories of an Omav-yad Caliph, Walid II (743-744), who mockedat the Koran, ate pork, drank wine, anddid not pray. Those stories may have beentrue or they may have been circulated forpolitical reasons. There began a puritanreaction in Mecca and Medina against thelevity and luxury of Damascus. Anothergreat Arab family, the Abbas family, theAbbasids, a thoroughly wicked line, hadlong been scheming for power, and wasmaking capital out of the general feud of the Omayyads and the Abbasidswas older than Islam ; it had been going onbefore Muhammad was born. These Abbasidstook up tlie tradition of the Shiite mar-tvrs, Ali and his sons Hasan and Husein,and identified themselves with it. Thebanner of the Omayyads was white ; theAbbasid adopted a black banner, black in » ]\[ark Sykcs. ^! St» Johns Gospel, chap. i.
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