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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

Al-Hakam, probably the best scholar among Moslem caliphs, personally........ several of these books.

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Used

Sold

Destroyed

Tore

Abdul Rehman I was youth of exceptional nerve and ability.

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Special

Unusual

Uncommon

High-class

Among the very few who.................. was a youth of twenty Abd ul Rehman

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Was killed

Was banished

Escaped

Was imprisoned

Cordova took its place as the most ............. eity in Europs.

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Cultured

Populated

Spacious

Fifty

Sovereignty in the Moslem world, West or East was_________

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unstable

stabel

permanent

perpetual

Al-Hakam,was a lover of..............

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Horses

Buildings

Books

Mosques

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

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abomination

hatred

irritation

admiration

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

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church

mosque

tomb

palace

In 750 the Ummayyed dynasty was overthrown by the Abbasid family.

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Set or rules

Family lines of rules

Set of kings

Series of kings

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

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773

873

973

1073

Under Abd-al-Rahman I, Spain had been the first province to shake off the authority of the recognized caliph in Islam.

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Admitted

Supported

Favoured

Acknowledged

The Mosque of Cordova was.......................... and enlarged by is successors.

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Completed

Curtailed

Minimized

Shortened

Nevers before was Cordova so prosperous, Andalusia so rich and the state so.

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Weak

Fourteen

Four

Forty

In Al-Zahra the caliph surrounded himself with a bodyguard of ________ which numbered 3750

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slaves

women

masons

labourers

The Abbasids got engaged in the ruthless extermination of the Umayyads.

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Uncontrolled

Direct

Cruel

Continous

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

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Abomination

Hatred

Irritation

Admiration

The fame of the Moslem capital penetrated distant Germany where a Saxon nun styled it the __________ of the world

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pearl

stone

jewel

ruby

Abdul Rehman I has aquiline or Features and red hair.

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Like an eagle's

Like a crow's

Like a duck's

Like a pigeon's

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