The Latin chiefs disclaimed all interest in the feuds and quarrels of rival sultans and in the fortunes of Mahometan sects.
This is the calamity threatened by the Abyssinian princes and the ferocious Portuguese warrior, and feared by the sultans of Egypt.
The treasury contains numerous portraits of sultans and family trees, presenting the heads of the present royal line.
The most important building on the Point, however, is the treasury where the crown jewels, ornamented arms, royal gifts and the robes of former sultans are kept.
Along the walls of one room were exhibited the costumes of the varioussultans from Mohammed II to the present.
While a considerable number of Christian Filipinos are to be found in Mindanao and some in Sulu, the Sultans and Datus have dominated the country.
Azrail, inexorable conqueror of the mighty, causeth even Sultans to crave mercy on bended knee.
The palace of the sultans and the mosque of Ala ed-din Kaikobad formerly covered great part of the Acropolis hill in the northern part of the city.
The sultans entreated to see him, and he was introduced, but in a mean habit.
In the centre of them appeared three sultans of the genii, who bowing low before the shekh, exclaimed all at once, "Master, hail!
Ten of the genii carefully conveyed the bride to her apartment, while the rest having seized the offending genie, dragged him before the sage, who commanded the three sultans to burn him to ashes, which was executed in an instant.
The three sultansinquired of their royal guest if he had any children, to which he replied that he had two sons.
The sultans then requested that he would send for them: upon which, their father dispatched a messenger to summon them to his presence.
Preparations were accordingly made for march, the two sultans encamped without the city, and in a few days began their expedition, which proved successful to their wishes.
At length, by continued and uninterrupted movements, the three sultans reached Yemen, and pitched their encampments about sunset on a verdant plain well watered, near the capital.
Under the prosperous rule of the Mameluke sultans this great tract was filled with habitations; a large suburb to the north, the Hoseynia, was added; and the town of Bulak was founded.
As the power of the sultansdeclined anarchy spread through the Peninsula.
The sultans of Iconium opposed some resistance to the Mogul arms, till Azzadin sought a refuge among the Greeks of Constantinople, and his feeble successors, the last of the Seljukian dynasty, were finally extirpated by the khans of Persia.
Footnote 60: Since the name of Cæsar had been transferred to the sultans of Roum, the Greek princes of Constantinople (Sherefeddin, l.
The kings of Ormuz, rich in the Indian trade and the pearl fishery, possessed large territories both in Persia and Arabia; but they were at first the tributaries of the sultans of Kerman, and at last were delivered (A.
Such was the origin of these haughty troops, the terror of the nations, and sometimes of the sultans themselves.
Originally granted by the Sultans of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and confirmed in their present form in 1870.
Akra formed a part of the Abbassides' ancestral principality before they attained to the Khalifate; and when their dynasty was overthrown by the Seljuk Sultans in 1050, it was to their ancient patrimony that they retired again.
Several battles were fought, and one after another the Sultans of Darfour, whose dynasty had reigned for 400 years, were overthrown and slain.
Zebehr, encouraged by this military triumph, turned his arms against the Sultans of Darfour, who had incurred his resentment by placing an embargo on wheat during the course of his brief campaign with Bellal.
The same motive of warding off evil spirits probably explains the custom observed by some African sultans of veiling their faces.
In fact, the aggrandizement of the Ottoman Sultans was anterior to that of the European sovereigns.
Of the extraordinary genius of the early Sultans there is abundant proof[19].
The empire needed vigorous rulers; the Sultans after Solyman have been characterized by a native statesman as “either fools or tyrants.
Thus it was that the Sultans were able to consolidate and unite their dominions, step by step, with every fresh acquisition of land.
Nor was this vigour of the earlySultans merely accidental.
The rapidity of her descent, it is true, had been arrested by the energy of her Sultans during the first twenty years of the nineteenth century.
In this last fashion the sultans were probably influenced by the Christian usage, for Ibn-Khaldun remarks that black was not a colour approved of by the orientals, who considered it to be related with the spirits of evil.
The distinctive colour of the Nasrite sultans was purple, which was replaced by black in time of mourning.
On one occasion the courtiers were speaking in his presence of the absolute power exercised by the sultans of Turkey.
They entrenched themselves in Jaffa with all the chivalry of Palestine that yet remained, and endeavoured to engage the sultans of Emissa and Damascus to assist them against the common enemy.
The sultans of Syria preferred the Christians to this fierce horde for their neighbours.
The sultans defeated them in several engagements, and the peasantry rose up in masses to take vengeance upon them.
We learn from Ibn-Khaldoun and many other writers, that the throne of the Mussulman sultans was the mimbar, takcht, or cursi.
Contreras says that the Moorish sultans used to hang these spaces with decorated leathers, tapestry, and armour.
The first of the sultansto use a throne was Moawia, son of Abu-Sofyan.
The Persians never object to depict in books and on walls the battles of Rustam, and the Turks preserve in the Seraglio treasury of Constantinople portraits, by Greeks and other artists, of their Sultans in regular succession.
Since then the city has passed through the hands of the Caliphs, the Sharifs of Meccah, the Sultans of Constantinople, the Wahhabis, and the Egyptians.
Remaining himself at the centre, he initiated a fashion which would encourage Osmanli sultans to lapse into half-hidden beings, whom their subjects would gradually invest with religious character.
He and his advisers had their idea, the contrary of the idea of Midhat and all the sultans since Mahmud.
As champions of the caliph the Turkish sultans disputed the infidels encroachment on the Moslem border.
That is the Mosque where the Sultans and their families went to prayer when they resided in the Seraglio near by.
Arranged in glass cases in another room a row of figures represents the Sultans of past ages clothed in the royal attire worn by them.
The fortress commanded the Strait and enabled the Sultans of four centuries ago to levy toll on all passing vessels.
A suit of chain armor worn by one of theSultans of olden times is ornamented with gold and diamonds.
There also are the palaces, kiosks, and gardens, which were occupied by the Sultans and their families until the present Sultan changed his residence to another part of the city.
They had by this time acquired the civilization of India, and theirsultans were powerful monarchs.
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