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Title: Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog) Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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by the Caliph provokedsuch resentment in the mind of the Ikhshid that hebethought him of abandoning the Prophets succes-sor on the Tigris, and bestowing his homage on thepretender who was founding an empire in WesternIslam. The Ikhshidi dynasty was of even shorter durationthan that of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, and left in Egypteven less to perpetuate its name. Its founder wascharged by his contemporaries with avarice andcowardice, neither of them a quality which helps tosecure immortality. The System of slave rule, which, as has been seen,gave Egypt its best days, was anticipated in the inter-val between the death of the Ikhshid and the acces-sion of the Fatimides. Of two negroes brought fromthe Sudan to the Egyptian market one aspired to em-ployment in a cook shop, that he might never wantfood; the other aspired to become ruler of the coun-try, and each obtained his wish. Purchased for asmall sum, and passing through the lowest stages ofmisery and dégradation, the latter rose finally by (26)
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CAIRO BEFORE THE FATIMIDES force of character to be the Ikhshids fîrst ministerand gênerai of his forces ; and on his masters deathhe contrived to keep the heirs in a state of tutelageto himself, and afterwards to seat himself on theirthrone; displaying throughout capacity for the man-agement of great afïairs. Kafur, Camphor,whose name of itself indicated the servile conditionof its owner, was not only master of Egypt, Syriaand Arabia, but in one respect was the most fortunateof ail Oriental sovereigns. He obtained as his en-comiast the most famous of Arabie poets, known asal-Mutanabbi the Prophetaster, at a time whenthe poets powers were at their ripest; and althoughin conséquence of a dispute thèse brilliant panegyricswere speedily followed by no less brilliant and scath-ing satires, the portrait of Kafur that results is morecomplète and more familiar than that provided bythe paid eulogiser of any other Sultan. It might be difficult to point out in Cairo any relieof the Ikhshi

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