Question # 1

The Umayyad dynasty in Damascus was overthrown by the ............ family

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Mamulk

Mughal

Abbasid

Saljoq

The books thus gathered numbered 400,000, their tidies filling a catalogue of......................... volumes.

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ten

Forty four

Five

Twenty two

His reign and that of his two immediate successors mark the __________ of Moslem rule in the west

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lowest

height

depth

degeneration

With his.............year old brother, Abd al Rahman dashed in to the river.

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Nine

Eleven

Seven

Thirteen

The Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad appointed a governor of sapin to _______ his rule

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Contact

Accept

Context

Contest

In more than one sense he initiated the ________ movement

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instruction

intellectual

fluctual

structural

In Al -Zahra the caliph surrounded himself with body guard of ................. which numbered 3750

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Slaves

Women

Masons

laborer's

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

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

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Abomination

Hatred

Irritation

Admiration

Ubdul Rehman I barely escaped assassination (political murder) in North Africa.

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Slowly

Cleverly

Hardly

Narrowly

The mosque of Cordova was transformed into a cathedral in 1236.

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Improved

Reformed

Changed

Reconstructed

To his villa, he brought water and introduced................ plants such as peaches and pomegranates.

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Exocist

Erratic

Exotic

Systematic

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

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church

mosque

tomb

palace

Accession of the Abbasids to the ______ was signalised

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Emirate

Baronage

Caliphate

Parsonage

10000 workmen with 1500 beasts of burden laboured on Al-Zahara for a ________ of years

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dozen

score

century

millennium

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

Hitti talked about the accession of the Abbasids to the calipahte.

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Entering on

Passage of

Movement of

Approach of

Cordova yielded in magnificence only to..................... and constantinople

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London

Paris

Baghdad

Berlin

The third Abd-al-Rahman was a ___________ man when he took office

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old

invalid

infant

young

Sovereignty in the Moslem world, West or East was_________

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unstable

stabel

permanent

perpetual

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