The Alhambra, being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula (1907)
Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 · London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company · leaf 95
etywith the body of the Christian sovereign, from Gibraltar toSeville. 32 The Alhambra. Yusuf did not long survive the enemy he had so generouslydeplored. In the year 1354, as ne was one day at prayer in theroyal Mosque of the Alhambra, a maniac suddenly rushed uponhim and plunged a dagger in his… … COURT OF MYRTLES, OR THE FISH-POND, FORMED BY YbSUF I. was cut to pieces, and his limbs burnt in public, to gratify thefury of the populace. The assassination of Yusuf is described by an eye-witnessin a letter addressed to Farris, Sultan of Western Africa, whichis printed by Pascual de Gayangos…
