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    Perfect imperfections

    Apr 28, 2020 2 minutes

    IMPERFECTIONS, so the Moors believed, were part of Allah’s great vision and that’s why, when the first Emir of Granada commissioned the construction of his Red Palace or Alhambra in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, faults were deliberately designed in.

    Thus restricted, his team of a thousand artisans got to work and

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