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The Chaliphate - Muir - The Search For Mecca

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A. D. 724-43] SPAIN AND FRANXE 399<br />

Between Tours and Poitiers the armies met ; the day was A.H. 105-<br />

hotly contested, but at last the invaders were driven back ^^<br />

and fled in confusion, leaving 'Abd ar-Rahman dead upon the Overthrown<br />

field. Next morning, the Conqueror, ready to renew the Martdl"<br />

contest, found not a single soldier within sight; all had 114 a.m.<br />

disappeared.! <strong>The</strong> fate of France, perhaps of Christendom,<br />

hung on the issue of that day. And in God's good<br />

providence Christendom was saved.<br />

Two years later, 'Okba son of Al-Hajjaj - returned to the Further<br />

charge, and effecting a junction with a body of Frank<br />

^^'•' '32 a.i>.<br />

""'P-^'g" '"<br />

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