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The Chaliphate - Muir - The Search For Mecca

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126 'OMAR [chap. XVI.<br />

A.II. 16. scandal. <strong>The</strong> people grew petulant and factious; and both<br />

Cities became hotbeds of turbulence and sedition. <strong>The</strong><br />

Bedawi clement, conscious of its strength, was jealous of<br />

Koreisli,and impatient at whatever checked its own capricious<br />

humour. Thus factions sprang up which, controlled by<br />

the strong and wise arm of 'Omar, at length broke loose<br />

under weaker Caliphs, rent the unity of Islam, and brought<br />

on disastrous day.s which, but for its marvellous vitality,<br />

must have proved fatal to the Faith.

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