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| | The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall - From Original Sources [Chapter 79] |
 | | But a shadow survived in Egypt, — a race of mock-Caliphs, having the name without the substance; a mere spectre as it were. |
 | | Shortly after his accession to the throne, Beibars, hearing that a scion of 'Abbasid descent survived in Syria, conceived the design of setting him up as Caliph, and of receiving at his hands a spiritual blessing and title to the Sultanate. |
 | | There, however, the Mosul chiefs, who were to have joined the expedition, warned Beibars of possible danger to himself from a resuscitated Caliphate; and so, withdrawing from the enterprise, the Sultan suffered his Protégé to pursue his march with a diminished following, composed chiefly of Bedawi clans. |
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