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Their signification is unknown to me." Instances of hybrid compound names, the Iranian component being retained. Izz ad-Din Kaikaus son of Ghiath ad-Din Kaikhosru. Ala ad-Din Kaikobad. Abu Mahfuz Ibn Firuz. Abu Manzur Al Muzaffar Ibn Abi I-Husain Ardeshir. Abu Mansur-Sheherdar Ibn Shiruyah. The word abna signifies sons.
They aided and encouraged Mahfuz to continue his depredations, whilst the Sherif of Meccah gave him command of Zayla, the key of the upper country, and presented him with the green banner of a Crusader.
His fellow religionists still relate that when Gragne fell in action, his wife Talwambara , the heroic daughter of Mahfuz, to prevent the destruction and dispersion of the host of Islam, buried the corpse privately, and caused a slave to personate the prince until a retreat to safe lands enabled her to discover the stratagem to the nobles. Father Lobo tells a different tale.
Boeda Mariana, the next occupant of the throne, passed his life in a constant struggle for supremacy over the Adel: on his death-bed he caused himself to be so placed that his face looked towards those lowlands, upon whose subjugation the energies of ten years had been vainly expended. At the close of the 15th century, Mahfuz, a bigoted Moslem, inflicted a deadly blow upon Abyssinia.
During the battle that ensued, Mahfuz, the Goliath of the Unbelievers, was slain in single combat by Gabriel Andreas, a soldier of tried valour, who had assumed the monastic life in consequence of having lost the tip of his tongue for treasonable freedom of speech: the green standard was captured, and 12,000 Moslems fell.
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