Articulating the ?ijaba : Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in Al-Andalus

Articulating the ?ijaba Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in Al-Andalus

In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus.; Readership: All interested in the history, literature, a...

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Otros Autores: Rosser-Owen, Mariam, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV [2022]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Volume 156.
Materias:
Umayyad dynasty.
Muslims > Spain > History.
Spain > Civilization > 711-1516.
Córdoba (Spain) > History.
Spain > Kings and rulers.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Al-Dawla al-ʿĀmiriyya: Constructing the ʿĀmirid State
  • 1 Succession Crisis
  • 2 Regency
  • 3 The Maghrib
  • 4 Conspicuous Piety
  • 5 The Rise to Power
  • 6 Al-Manṣūr
  • 7 The Culmination of Power
  • 8 Rupture
  • 9 Restoration
  • 10 Inheritance
  • Chapter 2 Appropriating Diplomacy: The ʿĀmirid Court
  • 1 The 'Ceremonial Idiom'
  • 2 Tools of Diplomacy
  • 2.1 Gifts
  • 2.2 Dynastic Marriages
  • 3 ʿĀmirid Diplomatic Relations
  • 4 Diplomatic Exchange with the Maghrib
  • 5 Objects of Exchange
  • Chapter 3 'The Creation of Loyalty': Public and Private Staging of the ʿĀmirid Court
  • 1 Elegance and Eloquence: the Literary Court
  • 2 Private Poetry
  • 3 A Culture of Learning
  • Chapter 4 Architecture as Titulature: al-Madīnat al-Zāhira
  • 1 Looking for al-Zāhira
  • 2 Reconstructing the Palace
  • 3 Reconstructing the City
  • 3.1 The Mosque
  • 3.2 Organs of State Bureaucracy
  • 3.3 Walls
  • 4 Why Did al-Manṣūr Build al-Madīnat al-Zāhira?
  • 5 What Did al-Madīnat al-Zāhira Look Like?
  • Chapter 5 The Politics of Piety: Al-Manṣūr's Extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba
  • 1 The Pre-ʿĀmirid Mosque
  • 2 The ʿĀmirid Mosque (Figure 49)
  • 2.1 Analysis of the Interior
  • 2.1.1 'Decorative Differences' That Can be Explained through the Need for Practical Solutions to Existing Construction Issues (See plan in Figure 49)
  • 2.1.1.1 Double Qibla Wall Not Continued
  • 2.1.1.2 Five-Lobed Arches to Resolve Disparity along the New Courtyard Façade
  • 2.1.1.3 Five-Lobed and Pointed Arches to Resolve Disparity within the Northern Zone
  • 2.1.1.4 Introduction of Lead Discs
  • 2.1.2 Architectural Differences in Cordoba IV That Seem Purely Decorative, and Can Be Read as Ostentatiously Costly
  • 2.1.2.1 Stone Construction
  • 2.1.2.2 Increasing Complexity of Roll Corbels.
  • 2.1.2.3 New Decorative Elements on the External Gates
  • 2.1.3 Architectural Features That Were Imitated from the Earlier Mosque
  • 2.1.3.1 Continuation of Transverse Arcade Running Parallel to Qibla Wall
  • 2.1.3.2 Arcade of Large Horseshoes along Longitudinal Wall
  • 2.1.3.3 Alternating Pattern of Coloured Columns
  • 2.1.3.4 Newly-Carved Stone Capitals
  • 2.1.3.5 Imitation of al-Ḥakam's Original Eastern Façade
  • 2.1.4 ʿĀmirid Interventions into al-Ḥakam's Prayer Hall
  • 2.1.4.1 Addition of Transverse Arcade along the Qibla Wall
  • 2.1.4.2 An ʿĀmirid Tribune in the Maqṣūra?
  • 3 Qurʾānic Inscriptions at the Great Mosque of Cordoba
  • 3.1 Reading al-Manṣūr's Extension: the ʿĀmirid Epigraphic Programme on the Eastern Façade (Figure 67)
  • Chapter 6 The Dār al-Ṣināʿa: ʿĀmirid Patronage of the Luxury Arts
  • 1 The Origins of the Dār al-Ṣināʿa
  • 1.1 Structure of the Industry
  • 1.2 Craftsmen Working across Media
  • 1.3 Materials
  • 1.3.1 Stone and Marble
  • 1.3.2 Ivory
  • 1.3.3 Perfumes and Perfume Containers
  • 1.3.4 Other Object Types
  • 2 Iṣtināʿ: The Strategic Use of Objects
  • 2.1 Precedents for Patronage: The Two Jaʿfars
  • 2.2 Anonymous Objects
  • 2.3 How al-Manṣūr Used Objects
  • Chapter 7 Building a Corpus of ʿĀmirid Art
  • 1 Objects Associated with al-Manṣūr
  • 1.1 The Andalusiyyīn Minbar (Dated 369/980 and 375/985
  • Figures 5-7
  • Appendix 4.4)
  • 1.2 Al-Manṣūr's Marble Basin (Dated 377/987-8
  • Figures 108-109, 113-118
  • Appendix 4.7)
  • 2 Objects Associated with ʿAbd al-Malik al-Muẓaffar (r. 1002-8)
  • 2.1 The Pamplona Casket (Dated 395/1004-5
  • Figures 120-127
  • Appendix 4.11)
  • 2.2 The Braga Pyxis (Datable 1004-8, Figures 11, 15
  • Appendix 4.12)
  • 2.3 Marble Basins
  • 2.3.1 Basin Made for ʿAbd al-Malik (Datable 1004-7, Figures 128-133
  • Appendix 4.13)
  • 2.3.2 Basin Made for ʿAbd al-Malik, Found in Toledo (Appendix 4.14).
  • 2.3.3 Fragments from a Basin, Found at the Alhambra (Figures 134-135, Appendix 4.15)
  • 2.4 The 'Suaire de Saint Lazare' (Datable 1007-8) and Its Comparanda (Figures 84, 136
  • Appendix 4.18)
  • 2.5 An ʿĀmirid Minbar for the al-Qarawiyyīn Mosque? (Appendix 4.17)
  • 3 Objects Associated with ʿAbd al-Raḥmān 'Sanchuelo'
  • 3.1 The 'Ashmolean' Pyxis (Dated 389/999, Figures 139-141, Appendix 4.10)
  • 3.2 The Xàtiva Basin (Figures 142-143)
  • 4 ʿĀmirid Objects without Designated Patrons
  • 4.1 Ivories
  • 4.1.1 The Doha Casket (Dated 394/1003-4, Figures 145-146, Appendix 4.16)
  • 4.1.2 The Bargello and V&amp
  • A Caskets (Figures 148-155
  • Appendix 4.19)
  • 4.1.3 The Metropolitan Museum Panel (Figure 32)
  • 4.1.4 Ivories from San Millán de la Cogolla
  • 4.2 Stone and Marble
  • 4.2.1 The 'Bādīs Basin' (Figures 156-158, Appendix 4.20)
  • 4.2.2 Other Objects in 'the Large Basin Group'
  • 4.2.3 Small Basins
  • 4.2.3.1 Basin in Madrid
  • 4.2.3.2 Basin in Seville
  • 4.2.3.3 Small basin in Granada
  • 4.2.3.4 Border fragment in Cordoba
  • 4.2.3.5 Side fragment in Seville
  • 5 The Language of ʿĀmirid Art
  • Chapter 8 Poems in Stone: Imagery, Text and Meaning in ʿĀmirid Art
  • 1 Poetic and Visual Imagery
  • 1.1 The Lion and Gazelle (Figure 157)
  • 1.2 Nature Imagery
  • 1.3 The 'Heraldic' Eagle (Figures 116, 132, 158)
  • 1.3.1 Banners
  • 1.4 The Tale of the Tortoise and Two Ducks
  • 2 Text and Image in ʿĀmirid Art
  • 2.1 Visualising the Ideal Ruler
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 Genealogy of the Banū Abī ʿĀmir, 711-1085
  • Appendix 2 Timeline of al-Manṣūr's Main Campaigns and Offices Held
  • Appendix 3a Qurʾānic Inscriptions inside the Cordoba Mosque
  • Appendix 3b Qurʾānic Inscriptions on the Eastern Façade of the Cordoba Mosque
  • Appendix 4 Inscriptions on Objects Made for the ʿĀmirids
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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