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A Moslem seeker after God : $b showing Islam at its best in the life and teaching of al-Ghazali, mystic and theologian of the eleventh century

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A. D.  A. H.    ARABIA AND SYRIA       PERSIA—KHORASAN—INDIA
  +------+------+------------------------+-------------------------
  | 1058 |  450 |El Mostanser,           |El Kaʿim Bʾamrillah
  |      |      |  427-487 A. H.         |  invests Tughril with
  |      |      |  Proclaimed at Bagdad, |  temporal authority.
  |      |      |  451 A. H.             +-------------------------
  |      |      |                        |Tughril Bey subjects
  | 1087 |  480 |                        |  Persia.
  |      |      |Seditions in Caliphate. +-------------------------
  |      |      +------------------------+Tughril Bey invades
  |      |      |                        |  India. Firdausi,
  |      |      |                        |  author of Shah Nameh.
  |      |      |                        |Death of Tughril Bey,
  | 1095 |  488 |                        |   1063.
  |      |      |Decline of the          +-------------------------
  |      |      |  Fatimides.            |
  |      |      |                        |DOMINATION OF THE SELJUKS
  |      |      |                        |
  | 1104 |  498 |                        |Alp Arslan. Conquest of
  |      |      |                        |  Asia Minor.
  |      |      |Jerusalem invaded by the+-------------------------
  |      |      |  sons of Ortok, 1076.  |Malek Shah. His four sons
  |      |      |1098, Siege of Antioch. |  divide his empire,
  |      |      |Jerusalem captured by   |  1072.
  | 1111 |  505 |  the Crusaders, 1099.  +-------------------------
  |      |      |  (492 A. H.)           |The kingdom of Gazna
  |      |      |1109, Tripoli taken by  |  overthrown by the
  |      |      |  the Crusaders.        |  Sultans Gourides of
  |      |      |                        |  Delhi.
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FOOTNOTES


[1] “Sketches from Eastern History,” Theodore Nöldeke. London, 1892, p.
98.

[2] “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

[3] “The Assemblies of al-Hariri,” trans. by Thomas Chenery. London,
1867. Vol. I, Introduction, p. 5.

[4] Der Islam, Band V, Heft 2/3; C. H. Becker, Strassburg, 1914, pp. 239,
291.

[5] Mediæval India, in “The Story of the Nations Series,” Stanley
Lane-Poole, New York, 1903, p. 37.

[6] “The Caliphate, its Rise, Decline and Fall,” 1892, p. 578.