text:  The palaces and aqueducts which he constructed in Cordova testified his zeal for the splendour as well as his care for the salubrity of his capital;--and after expending the sum of 80 000 golden _dinars_ (the produce of the royal fifth of all spoil taken in war) in the erection of the stately mosque which bears his name he bequeathed the completion of the structure at his death A