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The two caliphs publicly pray for each other while waging fierce war.
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Nor did the caliphs extort taxes without giving something in return.
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To return, then, for a moment, to the downfall of the Ommiade caliphs.
4
A new dynasty came to the throne of the caliphs of Damascus in 750.
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The caliphs of the West and of Africa imitated their brethren of the East.
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This, like the ancient standard of the caliphs, was held sacred in its character.
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The descendants of Mohammed's family refused, however, to recognize the Ommiads as legitimate caliphs.
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Haroun-al-Raschid (Aaron the Just) was the greatest of all the caliphs of Bagdad.
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Balsora was many years the capital of a kingdom tributary to the caliphs of Arabia.
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The Fatimite caliphs had lofty and pretentious claims to the allegiance of the Moslem world.
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Thus the Fatimite caliphs founded their authority upon a combination of political power and superstition.
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Great cruelties were practised by the Fatimite caliphs, who conquered Syria about the year 980.
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Long before the caliphs, the Caesars or even Alexander.
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With delight the money-caliphs view a situation that they think is relievable while you wait.
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The caliphs were successful; the grandchildren being slain.
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The most celebrated of all Mohammedan caliphs was Harun-al-Rashid, which means, in English, Aaron the Just.
