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 96
essin a letter addressed to Farris, Sultan of Western Africa, whichis printed by Pascual de Gayangos from the chronicle ot Al-Makkari—an elegant Moorish writer who flourished towards the The A thainbra. 33 end of the sixteenth century:—As Abu-el-hejaj (Yusuf) wasperforming the last prostration of… … THE KORAN RECESS IN THE MOSQUE, THE SCENE OF YUSUFs ASSASSINATION. but, after uttering some unintelligible words, he was carriedsenseless to his apartments, where he shortly died. Theassassin, meantime, was given up to the infuriated mob, whoslew him and burned his body. The Sultan was interred…
