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Arthur Gilman
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In the year 934 the princely king-makers of Bag- dad went to the prisons and took out a nephew of the late kalif to put on the throne from which Kaher had just been cast down. He is known as Radi.
He proved to be of a docile temperament, and look- ing back at the fate of his predecessors who had allowed their natural desire to be rulers, in reality as well as name, to influence them, determined to re- press every rising ambition and manly feeling. To make his masters well-disposed towards him,
...he appointed one of them prince of princes, or autocrat, giving hifn such unlimited power as Fadhl had wielded in the reign of Mamun, and depriving him- Digitized by VjOOQ IC RADVS DEBASED EASE, 427 self of the right to influence the administration of government or to expend any of its treasure in an independent manner. The office of vizier became utterly unimportant in the presence of this mighty officer. This complete resignation accomplished its purpose, and Radi was allowed to give himself up to the enjoyment of a debased ease, and to an indulgence in pleasure which brought his miserable existence "^'^ ""^ ^"^ "^^"^ '^^^'• to a close in the year 940.

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