text:  The unequal length and proportions of those which remain their irregular grouping and the want of height in the roof which they support indicate a far lower grade of architectural taste than that which we find in the aerial palaces of Granada; but all the Arabic writers who have described it concur in considering it one of the wonders of the world; and it ranked in the estimation of the Spanish Moslems as inferior in point of sanctity to none but the Kaaba and the mosque of Omar at Jerusalem