ABSTRACT
Al-Miknasi and his delegation traveled to Ceuta to board a Spanish ship to Cadiz. During their stay, they wandered around the Spanish bastion. Al-Miknasi wrote the name in Arabic: Sabta. Only cities that were known in Arabic history, such as Cordoba, Seville and others, were written by him according to Arabic pronunciation. A century later, and with the decline of Moroccan seafaring, they did not mind. But both al-Ghazal and al-Miknasi asserted, rather pompously, that the Spaniards were in fear of Islam. As the qasbah was fortified against land attacks, so it was fortified in the direction of the sea: they had built a wall around the mountain where it faced the sea, except where the mountain was very steep. There was also a large marble slab with the following writing in Kufic script: In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate, and the prayers and manifold salutations of God on Muhammad and on his family.
