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Al' Andalus
The Arts of the Islamic Spainish world centered around the religious and court culture of the Arab and Berber invaders who no occupied that land and caliphate.

The Architecture and Arts of the Hispano-Umayyad caliphate can be highlighted but not limited to the various available works of complex and sophisticated carved ivory luxuries, impressive metalwork and welding uncharacteristic of its time, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, marble columns and capitals and other major monuments of religious and court architecture such as the Great Mosque of Córdoba, the palace city of Madinat al-Zahra, and the Alhambra.

These new art forms for which were simultaneously being created and redefined were heavily influenced by the overall artistic traditions of the Mediterranean world along with the legacy of previous Caliphates in Jerusalem, Damascus and  Baghdad and adapted and borrowed elements of architecture and decorative design that were already tradition on the Iberian Peninsula much like the employment of the horseshoe arch.

The Umayyads of Islamic spain where not only inspired by Art works of the East but they also had an intentional fixation with acquiring luxurious art works and courtly possessions not only from Umayyads homeland of Syria but also other stretches the Byzantine Empire even as far as India and China.

The grandiose palaces and objects created for the Nasrids of Granada inspired an artistic renaissance that combined and repurposed concepts of the Almoravid, Almohad, Taifa, and even Christian forms. These included elaborate decorations that were carved and built into the interior of buildings. Nassrid style produced art with geometric interlace patterns, eight-pointed stars, and the stilted semicircular arch. They also used narrow columns and utilized muqarna vaults to hold up these structures.