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A yamur is an architectural finial consisting of stacked balls of diminishing size that decorated Islamic religious and administrative buildings during Al-Andalus. The yamur may have originated in North Africa, possibly being introduced to Iberia by the Almohads. After the fall of the Almohads, the feature continued to be used in the Muslim kingdom of Granada. The yamur is a Spanish analogue of the crescent moon that topped many religious buildings in other parts of the Muslim world.

The yamur atop the Giralda, when it served as minaret, commemorated the Battle of Alarcos. Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur commissioned the yamur of four bronze balls and it was installed in a ceremony on 10 March 1198, completing the Giralda four years after the battle. During an August 1355 earthquake, the yamur broke, and the balls crashed to the ground below.