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 1 Pre    |            capital, in the name of Abu Said, the last of the direct
 2 Pre    |          the death of Mahmud Shah, Abu Said appointed Sheikh Hussein
 3 Pre    |           with an army supplied by Abu Said, and induced Shiraz
 4 Pre    |            two after these events, Abu Said died, and the power
 5 Pre    |         considerably curtailed. On Abu Said's death, Abu Ishac,
 6 Pre    |    curtailed. On Abu Said's death, Abu Ishac, one of the three
 7 Pre    |           valour in the service of Abu Said, made himself master
 8 Pre    |          obedient to neither lord.~Abu Ishac had not steered his
 9 Pre    |          and laid siege to Shiraz. Abu Ishac, whose life was one
10 Pre    |         Mahommad ibn Muzaffar, and Abu Ishac was obliged to seek
11 Pre    |         description of its ruler: "Abu Ishac," says he, "is one
12 Pre    |         the two towns tallies with Abu Ishac's subsequent history,
13 Pre    |            would seem to show that Abu Ishac was not unpopular
14 Pre    | foundations with spades of silver. Abu Ishac shared the passion
15 Pre    |            historian who describes Abu Ishac's execution, quotes
16 Pre    |         man rose into high repute. Abu Ishac was his first patron. "
17 Pre    |           a long poem addressed to Abu Ishac, in which he is called
18 Pre    |           have been in Shiraz when Abu Ishac was brought thither,
19 Pre    |             From the protection of Abu Ishac, Hafiz passed into
20 Pre    |         the loyalty of one to whom Abu Ishac had been so good a
21 Pre    |     proclaimed that of the hapless Abu Ishac, and the King was
22 Pre    |          Shah, I would submit that Abu Ishac, Shah Shudja, and
23 VII(*) |     Nevertheless, from the time of Abu Bekr and Ali onwards, such
24 XXIV(*)|        Shah Shudja's former rival, Abu Ishac. Accordingly the King