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"ty" Harold" Rowen. The Cam idea University Presse Price, In 859 Haroun al-Raschi irt has been the tales of: Scheheramade, had been dead some fifty years. The halcyon days of the Caliphate were over, yet the Pro-phot's successor still. tyrannized over a vast empire and demanded luxury surpassing modern comprehension, Ju that year was bor! Ah ibn Isa, known to posterity a the "Good Viier," a Government. ocisl's son. When, eighty-nine years later, Ah died, the power of the Caliphs had been surrendered to the Emirs. It is the Baghdad of these eighty-nine years which Mr. Harold Bowen. portrays in "The Life and Times of Ah iba Isa;" a Baghdad glittering with the pomp of the Caliph's Court, rife with in-triene, cultured and. refined, yee!
deficient in scientific knowledge that the mest salubrious site for its hospital could only be ascertain ed by hanging pieces of raw meat in various quarters of the city and observing where it took longest 20 go tad.
The Bad Old Days Ah had indeed a romantic I Gifted (or cursed) with an ins tine! for economy, he was temperamentally marked out for the Vizierate at a time when the Caliph's ubjects were revolting against oppressive' taxation; his honesty was ro rigid that even his eunuch dared not accept any consideration for services rendered. As a man, the Good Vizier was somewhat inconsistent, coming_an ascetic outlook upon life with distinctly amorous inclinations,
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