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The Alcazar in Seville
Ibn ʿArabi lived at a time of remarkable cultural and spiritual flowering in the West and East of the Islamic world as well as in the Christian and Jewish worlds.
Al-Andalus, described in its time as 'the ornament of the world', had been under Islamic rule since the 2nd/8th century. It had become a highly cosmopolitan and diverse culture renowned for its artistic achievements.
See Contemporaries