Volume-2 covers the period from 334 to 656 A.H, when Abbasid Caliph had a titular position with real power in the hands of different dynasties of ruling elites and confined only to a limited area around Baghdad. The book provides details about contemporary despotic rules of Ghaznavids, Ghorids, Seljuks, Khawarizmis, etc. in areas who owed only religious allegiance to Abbasid Caliph.