Revisiting al-Andalus
Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond
Published on 15. October 2007
Book
Hardback
364 pages
978-90-04-16227-3 (ISBN)
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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 recent 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.
Contributors include: Antonio Almagro, Glaire D. Anderson, Rebecca Bridgman, Maria Judith Feliciano, Kathryn Ferry, Pedro Jimenez, Julio Navarro, Camila Mileto, Antonio Orihuela, Jennifer Roberson, Cynthia Robinson, Mariam Rosser-Owen, Antonio Vallejo Triano, and Fernando Vegas.
Contributors include: Antonio Almagro, Glaire D. Anderson, Rebecca Bridgman, Maria Judith Feliciano, Kathryn Ferry, Pedro Jimenez, Julio Navarro, Camila Mileto, Antonio Orihuela, Jennifer Roberson, Cynthia Robinson, Mariam Rosser-Owen, Antonio Vallejo Triano, and Fernando Vegas.
Reviews / Votes
"Es de agradecer... que en el libro se intenten abordar los temas con puntos de vista renovados. Los articulos proponen nuevos enfoques... y algunos lo hacen desde atractivas aproximaciones pluridisciplinares que abren perspectivas ineditas en el estudio de la cultura material de al-Andalus."Susana Calvo Capilla, Al-Qantara XXX/1 (January-June 2009), pp. 274-9
"Revisiting al-Andalus marque cependant une inflexion d'importance par rapport a son illustre devancier... Les ouvelles perspectives ici menagees font la part belle a la reflexion archeologique et a l'etude de la culture materielle... des bonnes surprises contenues dans Revisiting al-Andalus... Destine avant tout a un public anglo-saxon, l'ouvrage remplit bien son role de <<produit d'appel>> a de nouvelles investigations portant sur al-Andalus. ...Formons l'espoir que Revisiting al-Andalus suscite, en la matiere, de nouvelles vocations dans le champ academique anglais et americain, et permette aux remarquables travaux des collegues espagnols et portugais (et plus largement europeens) de connaitre en?n l'audience et la reconnaissance qu'ils meritent."
Jean-Pierre van Staevel, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques (BCAI) 24 (2008), pp. 153-5
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
xxxvi, 304 pp 24 pp
Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 239 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
766 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-16227-3 (9789004162273)
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Glaire D. Anderson, Ph.D. (2005) in History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture, MIT, is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is currently preparing a book on Cordoban Umayyad estates and court culture.
Mariam Rosser-Owen (D.Phil., University of Oxford, 2004) is Curator, Middle East, at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her research interests focus on artistic patronage in the Islamic West, and she is preparing a book on the V&A's collections of Islamic arts from Spain.
Mariam Rosser-Owen (D.Phil., University of Oxford, 2004) is Curator, Middle East, at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her research interests focus on artistic patronage in the Islamic West, and she is preparing a book on the V&A's collections of Islamic arts from Spain.
Content
List of Illustrations . vii
Contributors . xv
Introduction . xvii
Glaire D. Anderson and Mariam Rosser-Owen
Part I
1. Architecture and Urbanism in Umayyad Cordoba Madinat al-Zahra: Transformation of a Caliphal City .. 3
Antonio Vallejo Triano
2. The Dwellings of Madinat al-Zahra: a Methodological Approach . 27
Antonio Almagro
3. Villa (munya) Architecture in Umayyad Cordoba: Preliminary Considerations .. 53
Glaire D. Anderson
Part II
4. Reading the Regency: Poems in Stone: the Iconography of Amirid Poetry, and Its 'Petrifi cation' on Amirid Marbles .. 83
Mariam Rosser-Owen
5. Love in the Time of Fitna: 'Courtliness' and the 'Pamplona' Casket . 99
Cynthia Robinson
Part III
6. Uncovering Almohad Iberia: Evolution of the Andalusi Urban Landscape: from the Dispersed to the Saturated Medina .. 115
Julio Navarro and Pedro Jimenez
7. Re-Examining Almohad Economies in South-western al-Andalus through Petrological Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics . 143
Rebecca Bridgman
Part IV
8. Conquest and Colonisers: al-Andalus and Beyond in the Sixteenth Century The Andalusi House in Granada (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) . 169
Antonio Orihuela
9. Understanding Architectural Change at the Alhambra: Stratigraphic Analysis of the Western Gallery, Court of the Myrtles . 193
Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas
10. Sixteenth-Century Viceregal Ceramics and the Creation of a Mudejar Myth in New Spain . 207
Maria Judith Feliciano
Part V
11. Myth and Modernity: Constructions of al-Andalus Owen Jones and the Alhambra Court at the Crystal Palace .. 225
Kathryn Ferry
12. Visions of al-Andalus in Twentieth-Century Spanish Mosque Architecture .. 245
Jennifer Roberson
Bibliography . 269
Index .
Contributors . xv
Introduction . xvii
Glaire D. Anderson and Mariam Rosser-Owen
Part I
1. Architecture and Urbanism in Umayyad Cordoba Madinat al-Zahra: Transformation of a Caliphal City .. 3
Antonio Vallejo Triano
2. The Dwellings of Madinat al-Zahra: a Methodological Approach . 27
Antonio Almagro
3. Villa (munya) Architecture in Umayyad Cordoba: Preliminary Considerations .. 53
Glaire D. Anderson
Part II
4. Reading the Regency: Poems in Stone: the Iconography of Amirid Poetry, and Its 'Petrifi cation' on Amirid Marbles .. 83
Mariam Rosser-Owen
5. Love in the Time of Fitna: 'Courtliness' and the 'Pamplona' Casket . 99
Cynthia Robinson
Part III
6. Uncovering Almohad Iberia: Evolution of the Andalusi Urban Landscape: from the Dispersed to the Saturated Medina .. 115
Julio Navarro and Pedro Jimenez
7. Re-Examining Almohad Economies in South-western al-Andalus through Petrological Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics . 143
Rebecca Bridgman
Part IV
8. Conquest and Colonisers: al-Andalus and Beyond in the Sixteenth Century The Andalusi House in Granada (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) . 169
Antonio Orihuela
9. Understanding Architectural Change at the Alhambra: Stratigraphic Analysis of the Western Gallery, Court of the Myrtles . 193
Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas
10. Sixteenth-Century Viceregal Ceramics and the Creation of a Mudejar Myth in New Spain . 207
Maria Judith Feliciano
Part V
11. Myth and Modernity: Constructions of al-Andalus Owen Jones and the Alhambra Court at the Crystal Palace .. 225
Kathryn Ferry
12. Visions of al-Andalus in Twentieth-Century Spanish Mosque Architecture .. 245
Jennifer Roberson
Bibliography . 269
Index .