ABSTRACT
Alhambra as an index of Iberia's history unveils recurrent responses to cultural exclusion, since its geographical condition made it an ideal place of refuge'. This condition stimulated some consonance between different legacies of exclusion, imbued with resonant connotations. During the next couple of centuries, the Almoravid's and Almohad's reaction to Andalusi free-thinking was highly destructive. The Almohads' theological foundation was a rigid observance of God's Unicity, which precluded human understanding. By the early 1300s, this philosophical sensibility grew stronger with the mystical rationalism of Ibn al-Arab. In Muammad V's case, an early coup d'tat by Granada's nobility dismantled his father's inclusivity and tolerance. The potentiality of divine mandate or divine will to articulate the multiple layers of creation under Masarrian and Gabirolian metaphysics had been replaced by Love in the philosophy of Ibn al-Arab. The Order of St Jerome received many Jewish intellectuals renowned kabbalists trying to incorporate their views of religion to Christianity.
