But where the Spanish Moors were in possession of the soil, their clothes were similar in most respects to those of eastern peoples. Detailed notices of these costumes are furnished us by Ibn-Said and other writers. Fray Pedro de Alcalá explains in his _Vocabulary_ that, among the Granadinos, the use of one garment in particular was limited to royalty, or nobles of high rank. This was the _libas_ (or, in the Granadino dialect, _libis_), shaped like roomy breeches, and greatly resembling the _zaragüelles_ worn until this hour by the peasants of the Huerta of Valencia. Ibn-Said, quoted by Al-Makkari (see Gayangos, _History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain_, Vol. I., p. 116) says that the dress of the Moors of Andalusia was not identical with that of the Asiatic Mussulman. The former, he declares, would often discard the turban; especially those who lived towards the eastern frontier. In the western region the turban continued to be generally worn by the upper classes and by the leading State officials. Thus, at Cordova and Seville every _cadi_ and _alfaqui_ would wear a turban, while at Valencia and Murcia even the nobles went without it, and among the lower classes it had fallen into absolute disuse. Neither officers nor soldiers of the army wore the turban. We learn from Casiri (_Bibl. Arabico-Hispana_, II., p. 258) that the _imama_[11] was the only form of head-dress used by the _cheiks_, _cadis_, and _ulemas_ of Granada. At this capital red was the distinctive colour of the sovereigns of the Alahmar dynasty, who took their very title from this circumstance, the Arabic word _alahmar_ meaning "red." The distinctive colour of the Nasrite sultans was purple, which was replaced by black in time of mourning. In this last fashion the sultans were probably influenced by the Christian usage, for Ibn-Khaldun remarks that black was not a colour approved of by the orientals, who considered it to be related with the spirits of evil. However this may be, the manuscript _History of the House of Cordova_ quoted by Eguilaz Yanguas, says that when Boabdil el Chico entered that city as a prisoner, "the captive monarch was dressed in black velvet, in token of his adverse fortune and defeat. He rode a richly caparisoned charger, whose coat was black and glossy." [11] This was a large form of turban. In the well-known painting in the Hall of Justice of the Alhambra, the head-dress is the _aharim_ or _almaizar_.