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eration, appealed for help to AbuYusuf, the Sultan of Morocco. But before assistancecould reach him, he resolved on a final effort to crushthe rebels single-handed. An old man of eighty,enfeebled with disease, he rode forth from Granadaat the head of his army, for the last time. Fallingfrom his… … \ 3 THE HISTORY OF THE CITY 27 the Assabica beneath a marble tomb, the epitaph onwhicli proclaimed him to be the strength of Islam,the glory of the day and night, the sword of truth,and the splendour of the law. This great man was succeeded by his son who, atthe age of thirty-eight years, began his…
