text: " In this awkward dilemma the reputation of the Andalusian rhetoricians was saved by Mundhir Ibn Said who not only poured forth a torrent of impromptu eloquence but delivered a long ex-tempore poem "which to this day stands unequalled; and Abdurrahman was so pleased that he appointed him preacher and Imam to the great mosque; and some time after the office of Kadi-'l-jamah or supreme judge being vacant he named him to that high post and made him besides reader of the Khoran to the mosque of Az-zahra