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The Chaliphate - Muir - The Search For Mecca

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A.D. (=>5R1 'ALT LOSES EGYPT 279<br />

With difficult)- two thousand men were got together, but A. II. jSafter<br />

so long dela)- that they had hard!)- marched before<br />

news of the defeat made it necessary to return. 'All thereupon<br />

ascended the pulpit, and upbraided the people for their<br />

spiritless and disloyal attitude. <strong>For</strong> fifty days he had been<br />

urging them to go forth, to avenge their fallen brethren, and<br />

help those still struggling in the field. Like a restive, wayward<br />

camel, casting its burden, they had held back. " .\nd<br />

now," he said, in grief and bitterness of spirit, " the son of Abu<br />

Bekr is fallen a mart}'r, and Egypt hath departed from us."

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