Note 099
Take a specimen, the death of the caliph Motaz:

Correptum pedibus pertrahunt, et sudibus probe permulcant, et spoliatum laceris vestibus in sole collocant, prae cujus acerrimo aestu pedes alternos attollebat et demittebat. Adstantium aliquis misero colaphos continuo ingerebat, quos ille objectis manibus avertere studebat ..... Quo facto traditus tortori fuit, totoque triduo cibo potuque prohibitus ..... Suffocatus, &c.
(Abulfeda, p. 206.)

Of the caliph Mohtadi, he says,

services ipsi perpetuis ictibus contundebant, testiculosque pedibus conculcabant,
(p. 208.)

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 52