Complex sentence: Enraged, Abd-ar-Rahman had the boy tortured (which he survived for six hours) and dismembered.Other accounts have him flung from a parapet after stripping himself naked, although these alternative accounts uphold his refusal to fulfill the Caliph's wishes.
Split into simpler sentences: Enraged, Abd-ar-Rahman had the boy tortured (which he survived for six hours) and dismembered. Mark D. Jordan, "The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology," Chicago, 1997; pp.10-28 Other accounts have him flung from a parapet after stripping himself naked, although these alternative accounts uphold his refusal to fulfill the Caliph's wishes.