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[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This is an updated and revised edition of the first edition of this collection which appeared 1987. It takes into account the comments which were made on the first edition. It presents articles of different kinds dealing with the mathematical and in particular geometric background of the decorations and architecture of the Alhambra, and more generally of the Arabic art in Spain from the period when the Alhambra had been constructed. From the mathematical point of view the most interesting article is that of J. M. Montesinos where the crystallographic groups are classified and a positive answer is given to the question, if all these groups are present as symmetries in the decorations of the Alhambra. But also the articles of A. Córdoba relating periodic structures with the Poisson summation formula and C. Ruiz Garrido and R. Péréz Gómez studying also colors as a matter of symmetry are of mathematical interest themselves. Other articles are more of didactical or historical nature. Also a program is exhibited for the construction of tessellations. The collection is an enjoyable reading matter for those who are interested in connections between art and mathematics. For providing some more details a list of contents should suffice: \textit{J. M. Montesinos Amilibia}: Caleidoscopes and crystallographic groups in the Alhambra; \textit{F. Hernán}: Variations on a square; \textit{A. Fernández-Puertas}: Notes on the Spanish-Mussulman loop; \textit{A. Córdoba}: Periodic structures: Poisson summation formula; \textit{C. Ruiz Garrido} et al.: Mathematical visions of the Alhambra. The color; \textit{R. Pérez Gómez}: Proposed problems; \textit{C. Ruiz Garrido} et al.: Methods for solving problems. On the notations and generators of the planar crystallographic groups; \textit{R. Pérez Gómez}: Solved problems; \textit{A. Lara Porras} et al.: Numbers in the Alhambra; \textit{M. Coriat Benarroch} et al.: Tessellations with ``opus tessellatum''; \textit{M. de la Fuente Martos}: Didactic introduction to the study of periodic mosaics. Their analysis in the mezquita of Córdoba; \textit{A. Almendros Morales} et al.: Scissors, adhesive, paper, caleidoscopes and mathematics for visiting the Alhambra in the classroom; \textit{F. Hernández Rojo}: M. C. Escher: A ``nazarí'' of the 20-th century?