Kairwan Through the Ages

KAIRWANS EVENTFUL HISTORY From a Kairwan Letter to the London Times. Such is Holy Kairwan, the City of Victory, which rising on the ruins of the Roman Nicus Augusti, sent forth armies to conquer a great part of two continents, became the seat of a long line of independent rulers, and for centuries afterward was the acknowledged metropolis of Islam in the West. In the time of its long-lasting decline it has served as the rallying-point of the nomadic tribes which surround it, their place of the p