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The writer of the essay The Jewel of the World is

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Philp K. Hitti

Jafferson

Darrel Barnard

Jerome K. Jerome

Two years before his death in 788 Abd-al-Rahman founded the great __________ of Cordova

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church

mosque

tomb

palace

the capital boasted some.................. thousand weavers and flourishing leather industry.

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Five

Thirteen

Hundred

One

He was in a Bedouin camp on the left bank of the ______ River one day

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Euphrates

Tigris

Indus

Nile

Accession of the Abbasside to the .............. was signalieed.

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Emirate

Baronage

Caliphate

Parsonage

The royal revenue amounted to 624500

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Rupees

dollars

Pounds

Dinars

It took Ubdul Rehman some years more to bring all of spain to subjection, but he persisted.

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Insisted

Stood firm

Progressed

Went forward

With its froest of stately _________ and its spacious outer court, it has survived to the present day

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rooms

roofs

floors

columns

Ubdul Rehman I built an aqueduct for the supply of pure water to the capital.

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A stream

Water-conveying channel

Water tank

Small dam

with its forest of stately........................ and its spacious outer court, it has survived to the present day.

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Rooms

Roots

Floors

Columns

In the south of Spain , were stationed....................troops who accepted him as leader.

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Abbasid

Syrian

Persian

Turks

He was a grandson of the ______ caliph of Damascus

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Fifth

Seventh

Ninth

Tenth

The Mosque of Cordova was ________ and enlarged by his successors

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completed

curtailed

minimised

shortened

He erected for himself a palace and garden outside __________ in imitation of the palace built in Syria

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Cordova

Gharnata

Alhambra

Ceuta

One by one he conquered the lost.

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Provisions

Princesses

provinces

Principals

The mosque of Cordova has survived in the shape of a church.

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Existed

Continued to exist

Stayed

Continued

In ______, he discontinued the Friday sermon, hitherto delivered in the name of the Abbasid Caliph

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773

873

973

1073

The books thus gathered numbered 400,000, their titles filling a catalogue of ________ volumes

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ten

forty four

twenty two

five

Cordova acquired international fame and inspired awe and ............. in the hearts of travellers.

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Abomination

Hatred

Irritation

Admiration

He did not assume the caliph's title but contented himself with the title.

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Wazir

Kabir

Amir

Jahangir

The tired Abd al Rahman was a ......................... man when he took office.

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Old

Invalid

Young

Infant

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