 But it may act as a stimulus to a reinvention within the confines of the recipient culture of a similar institution consonant with the values of the recipient.The "ribāṭ" was attractive to the Christians and fulfilled a social and military need but was unacceptable owing to Spanish religious values.For the Christians it would have been thoroughly repugnant to take on the trappings of that very religion whose extermination was life's highest goal.