ABSTRACT
The stream of fugitives fleeing from the Crusaders poured into Bagdad. It was the month of Ramazan, the season of fasting. The tale of horror told by the hapless few who h3.d escaped slaughter or slavery plunged the city into sorrow. The fast was forgotten; the people assembled in the cathedral mosque and wept.2 The Caliph Mustazhir b'Illah hurried off three eminent men of his court to Barkyaruk and Mohammed, who were encamped at Holwan, to entreat them to settle their
appeal proved fruitless, for the brothers were soon again at A. R. each other's throat in consequence of the assassination of Barkyarfrk's vizier. The historian pathetically adds, "the discord among the Sultans enabled the Franks to establish themselves in the countries of Islam."
