Revisiting al-Andalus : perspectives on the material culture of Islamic Iberia and beyond / edited by Glaire D. Anderson and Mariam Rosser-Owen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Glaire D.

Rosser-Owen Brill, Mariam.

Series:

Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; 34.

The Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Andalusia (Spain)--Civilization--Islamic influences.

Andalusia (Spain).

Muslims--Spain--Andalusia--History.

Muslims.

Spain--Andalusia.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 303 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

Revisiting Al-Andalus brings together a range of recent scholarship on the material culture of Islamic Iberia, highlighting especially the new directions that have developed in the Anglo-American branch of this field since the 1992 catalogue of the influential exhibition, Al-Andalus: the Art of Islamic Spain. Together with examples of Spanish scholarship on medieval architecture and urbanism, the volume's contributors (historians of art and architecture, archaeologists, and architects) explore topics such as the relationship between Andalusi literature and art; architecture, urbanism, and court culture; domestic architecture; archaeology as a tool for analyzing economic and architectural history; cultural transfer between the Iberian Peninsula and the New World; 19th-century 'rediscovery' of al-Andalus; and modern architectural and historiographical attempts to construct an Andalusi cultural identity.

Contents:

Madinat al-Zahra: : transformation of a caliphal city / Antonio Vallejo Triano

The dwellings of Madinat al-Zahra : a methodological approach / Antonio Almagro Villa (Munya)

Architecture in Umayyad, Cordoba : preliminary considerations / Glaire D. Anderson

Poems in stone : the iconography of amirid Poetry, and its "Petrification" on Amirid Marbles / Mariam Rosser-Owen

Love in the ime of Fitna : 'Courtliness' and the "Pamplona" casket / Cynthia Robinson

Evolution of the Andalusi urban landscape: from the dispersed to the saturated Medina / Julio Navarro and Pedro Jimenez

Re-examining Almohad economies in South-western al-Andalus through petrological analysis of archaeological ceramics / Rebecca Bridgman

The Andalusi house in Granada (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries) / Antonio Orihuela

Understanding architectural change at the Alhambra : stratigraphicanalysis of the Western Gallery, Court of the Myrtles / Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas

Sixteenth-century viceregal ceramics and the creation of a Mudejar myth in New Spain / Maria Judith Feliciano

Owen Jones and the Alhambra court at the Crystal Palace / Kathryn Ferry

Visions of al-Andalus in twentieth-century Spanish Mosque architecture / Jennifer Roberson

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-289) and index.

ISBN:

9789004162273

9004162275

OCLC:

169873512