This work, set in the 8th-century <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mezquita-catedral_de_C%C3%B3rdoba" class="mw-redirect" title="Mezquita-catedral de Córdoba">Great Mosque of Cordova</a> in Spain may have been begun in 1880 while Weeks was staying in that city. In Weeks' estate sale catalogue, the scene was described as follows: Preaching the holy war against the Christians, the old Moor holds aloft the green flag of Mohammed while he curses the "dogs of Christians" with true religious fervor, and calls upon the followers of Mohammed to drive them out of Spain.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Edwin_Lord_Weeks" class="extiw" title="w:en:Edwin Lord Weeks"><span title="American artist (1849-1903)">Edwin Lord Weeks</span></a>
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circa 1880 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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