| The Arab emirs governing Sicily imported texts from Baghdad and had a rich library there. |
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| Crusader princes, atabeqs, emirs and even Saladin himself had been forced to come to terms with them or suffer the consequences. |
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| Many Southerners, Beja, and Nuba leaders joined the Mahdiya and led armies as influential emirs. |
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| They selected various people and called them kings, emirs and sheikhs. |
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| The Nasrid emirs were responsible for building the Alhambra palace complex as it is known today. |
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| In the United Arab Emirates, the hereditary emirs of the emirates elects one of themselves as president of the federation. |
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| The most fortunate of the men worked as the officials or bodyguards of the ruler and emirs, or as business managers for rich merchants. |
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| The city would rise from its ashes though as summer homes for Ak Koyunlu emirs were built. |
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| The same success attended the other mirzas and emirs in their excursions. |
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| Within 150 years of gaining control of Persia, the caliphs were forced to cede power to local dynastic emirs who only nominally acknowledged their authority. |
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| Emirs and sheiks along the Mongols' line of advance came and did homage. |
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