The problem of the meaning of life and its goal in Andalusia at the time of its Islamic apogy, directed each act of day to day life, as well as all scientific and technical reserch:

The spiritual giants who speak to you in this room, Muslims like Averröes or Ibn Arabi, Jews like Maimonides, or Christians like King Alonso X the Wise, all lived between the XIIth and the XIIIth century; they are some of the men who put across most brilliantly the message of Andalusia.