ABSTRACT
[75–82] Hishām I (172–180/788–796) – ransoms captives – comments of Mālik – encourages attendance at mosques – reprimands a governor – the Kinānī from Jaén.
[83–93] al-Ḥakam I (180–206/796–822) – the judge's decision on the concubine from Jaén – ‘Ajab's account of the death of the judge – a man approaches Muḥammad ibn Bashīr – al-‘Abbās and Muḥammad ibn Bashīr – the emir responds to a woman from the Lower March – the revolt of Jābir at Jaén – the emir calls for perfume in the Arrabal revolt – the Berber of Mérida.
[94–95] Some verses of al-Ḥakam on his campaigns – his love poems.
[96–107] ‘Abd al-Raḥmān II (206–238/822–852) – the dishonest eunuch – the emir's gift of a necklace – and the verses of Ibn Shamr – his reply in verse – his campaigns against Mérida – his exchange of verses with Ibn Qarlumān.
[108–119] Muḥammad (238–273/852–886) – he chastises Hāshim – al-Walīd ibn Ghānim defends Hāshim – the emir and the poet al-Rīyāḍī – Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd's journey with al-Rīyāḍī – his misfortune in Cairo – al-Walīd ibn Ghānim writes to the emir and his reply – the emir's death.
[120–121] al-Mundhir (273–275/886–888) his killing of Hāshim and death at Bobastro.
[122–127] ‘Abdallāh (275–300/888–912) growing menace of Ibn Ḥafsūn – letters of the emir – a love poem of the emir – a poem by him on asceticism.
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