Mirrors of Paradise - ACE246.7

James Dickie reads and translates ornate inscription in the Alhambra. VO of Manuel Nieto Cumplido over interior of the Córdoba mosque, and the trees in its courtyard, pointing out how they mirror each other. Nieto Cumplido describes the Byzantine mosaics of the Mihrab, along with the beam system put in by the Christian architects from Armenia employed by Al Hakaam II. The Calahorra (Al-Andalus Audiovisual Museum). The painting by Dionisio Baixeras-Verdaguer, Abd al-Rahman III (891-961) Receiving the Ambassador (1885), showing the presentation of a copy of Dioscorides’s De Materia Medica by a representative of the Emperor of Byzantium. Poem read over. Installation of figures representing Maimonides, Averroes, Alfonso X. "Voice" of Alfonso describing his insistence that Arabic and Latin were both taught in schools he founded. John Edwards talks about the importance of Alfonso’s cultural patronage. Córdoba. Arab manuscripts on medical and astronomical topics. Map by 11th century cartographer Al-Idrisi.