Epigraph:
You are the best people raised for the good of mankind; you enjoin what is good and forbid evil and believe in Allah. And if the People of the Book had believed, it would have surely been better for them. Some of them are believers, but most of them are disobedient. (Al Quran 3:111)
Cordoba mosque in Spain from the 8th Century
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