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This is an excerpt from An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook
(Andalusia, 13th c. - Charles Perry, trans.)
The original source can be found at David Friedman's website

A Sweet Called Ma'qûda. Take good sugar and moisten it with fresh water. Put it on a moderate fire until it binds and put in chopped almonds. Measure it over marble and if you see that it is coming apart, grease the marble. And it (the candy) is shaped on it (the marble) into raghî fs that you cut with scissors in whatever shape you want. While it is still warm, give it the shape of dates stuffed with almonds or with a piece of fanid, or resembling Malaga figs or like grapes or or raisins and so forth. Leave it until it cools and lay it aside.

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