Articulating the Hijaba : Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in Al-Andalus / Mariam Rosser-Owen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosser-Owen, Mariam, author.

Series:

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Erste Abteilung, Volume 156.

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the near and Middle East Series ; Volume 156.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Umayyad dynasty.

Muslims--Spain--History.

Muslims.

Spain--Civilization--711-1516.

Spain.

Córdoba (Spain)--History.

Córdoba (Spain).

Spain--Kings and rulers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 478 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, art, architecture and archaeology of medieval Islamic Iberia, relations with the Maghrib, the organisation of artistic workshops, and the patronage and meaning of artworks

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-46920-6