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524 SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. Part III. court owes its existence to another caliph, of the same name as the founder, in the year 957. As-, however, the Christian basilicas of this age had almost always courts in front, it is more than probable that 970. Mosque at Cordoba. (From a Plan by G. le Normand.) Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. this mosque had one also ; for the Mahomedan mosques erected in countries previously Christian borrow much of their arrangement from these edifices. The eight eastern aisles were added by El Mansour (976-1001),