 | Thomas Patrick Hughes - Religion - 1885 - 794 pages
...nobles and plebeians, but was trusted and consulted on every occaaion; his name was in every month, his power and influence had no limits, and he was...independently of the famous library founded by the Khalifah alHakim, and which is said by writers worthy of credit to have contained no less than four... | |
 | Rosamond McKitterick - History - 1992 - 366 pages
...the Morrocan author Al-Maqqari, looking back on the departed glories of Al-Andalus, recalled that: rich men in Cordova, however illiterate they might...the famous library founded by the Khalif Al-hakem [961-76], and which is said by writers worthy of credit to have contained no less than four hundred... | |
 | Patrick Hughes, Thomas Patrick Hughes - Religion - 1995 - 774 pages
...and plebeian«, but was trusted and consulted on every occ»EGOS eion ; his name was in every month, his power and influence had no limits, and he was...be, encouraged letters, rewarded with the greatest mnnificence writers and poets, and spared neither trouble nor expense in forming large collections... | |
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... his power and influence had no limits, and he was preferred and distinguished in all the occasions of life. •• Owing to this, rich men in Cordova, however illiterate they might be, encouraged letters, rewarded with the greatest munificence writers... 