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(Western Islamic art: Moorish:)

‘The poems that adorn the Alhambra* as calligraphic ornamentation celebrate its cupolas as domes of heaven ** rotating around the prince sitting under them.’

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*(in Granada, Spain)

**(cf [1])

*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 91

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