(Subs: Translations of foreign language parts to English.)
"I am the center of knowledge, so attend it."
"You will be what you want, respected and knowledgeable."
"Order it, endow it, defend it and preserve it."
"Be steadfast in that and be kind to it."
and it continues across the Madrassa,
inside the Mosque, and ends right here.
The Christian King Alfonso VI entered the frontier city of Toledo.
This gate was known in Toledo . . .
as the "Puerto Vieha de Bisagra."
and it's also known as the "Puerto de Alfonso VI"
Because, according to tradition,
Alfonso VI, King of Castille and Leon . . .
entered through this gate when he conquered Toledo
When Alfonso VI occupied the town
some Muslims had their own libraries
and there were other books coming here
from other parts of Andalus
Many of them were Arabic translations of classical works,
Greek philosophy and so on.
So here in Toledo we have two important elements
Books and people who could read them.
The main thing, is that once they read them,
they could translate them.