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on a hill overlooking Granada
Cordoba holds the mosque, not the Alhambra
Seville has another palace
Toledo does not hold the Alhambra
the Nasrid sultans of the fourteenth century
the Umayyads came centuries earlier
the Abbasids ruled the East, not al-Andalus
the Fatimids ruled Egypt, not al-Andalus
a fountain borne by marble lions
not live lions but marble ones
the court is a courtyard, not a throne hall
not a menagerie but a courtyard
plaster, tile, wood and inscriptions
no gold is on its walls
not marble alone but plaster and tile
no steel in its fabric
tiered hanging ornament in the domes
not columns but ceiling ornament
not doors but a dome crown
not windows but ornament
Granada fell in 1492
1212 was a battle long before the fall
1085 is Toledo's fall, not Granada's
1614 was an expulsion, not the city's fall
a retreat garden above the palace
a garden, not a mosque
a garden, not a tower
a garden, not a market
verses, prayers and poems in Arabic script
no Roman symbols on it
not maps but inscriptions
no human figures in its ornament
it stayed the finest Islamic palace in the West
it was not razed; it survives
it stayed a palace, not a mosque
it was not flooded; it still crowns its hill
it joined plaster, tile, writing and water in rare harmony
no tower of it is its fame
not oldest dome but its beauty
it is a palace, not a mosque
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