Articulating the Ḥijāba : cultural patronage and political legitimacy in al-Andalus : the ʻĀmirid regency c. 970-1010 AD /
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| Author / Creator: | Rosser-Owen, Mariam, author. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] ©2022 |
| Description: | xxvi, 478 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table, color maps, plans ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one - the Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 156 Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 156. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12732513 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- Al-Dawla al-ʻĀmiriyya : Constructing the ʻĀmirid State
- Succession Crisis
- Regency
- The Maghrib
- Conspicuous Piety
- The Rise to Power
- AI-Manṣūr
- The Culmination of Power
- Rupture
- Restoration
- Inheritance
- Appropriating Diplomacy : The ʻĀmirid Court
- The 'Ceremonial Idiom'
- Tools of Diplomacy
- Gifts
- Dynastic Marriages
- ʻĀmirid Diplomatic Relations
- Diplomatic Exchange with the Maghrib
- Objects of Exchange
- 'The Creation of Loyalty' : Public and Private Staging of the ʻĀmirid Court
- Elegance and Eloquence : the Literary Court
- Private Poetry
- A Culture of Learning
- Architecture as Titulature : al-Madīnat al-Zāhira
- Looking for al-Zāhira
- Reconstructing the Palace
- Reconstructing the City
- The Mosque
- Organs of State Bureaucracy
- Walls
- Why Did al-Manṣūr Build al-Madīnat al-Zāhira?
- What Did al-Madīnat al-Zāhira Look Like?
- The Politics of Piety : Al-Manṣūr's Extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba
- The Pre-ʻĀmirid Mosque
- The ʻĀmirid Mosque
- Analysis of the Interior
- 'Decorative Differences' That Can be Explained through the Need for Practical Solutions to Existing Construction Issues
- Double Qibla Wall Not Continued
- Five-Lobed Arches to Resolve Disparity along the New Courtyard Façade
- Five-Lobed and Pointed Arches to Resolve Disparity within the Northern Zone
- Introduction of Lead Discs
- Architectural Differences in Córdoba iv That Seem Purely Decorative, and Can Be Read as Ostentatiously Costly
- Stone Construction
- Increasing Complexity of Roll Corbels
- New Decorative Elements on the External Gates
- Architectural Features That Were Imitated from the Earlier Mosque
- Continuation of Transverse Arcade Running Parcdlel to Qibla Wall
- Arcade of Large Horseshoes along Longitudinal Wall
- Alternating Pattern of Coloured Columns
- Newly-Carved Stone Capitals
- Imitation of al-Ḥakam's Original Eastern Façade
- ʻĀmirid Interventions into al-Ḥakam's Prayer Hall
- Addition of Transverse Arcade along the Qibla Wall
- An ʻĀmirid Tribune in the Maqṣūra?
- Qurʼānic Inscriptions at the Great Mosque of Córdoba
- Reading al-Manṣūr's Extension : the ʻĀmirid Epigraphic Programme on the Eastern Façade
- The Dār al-Ṣināʻa : ʻĀmirid Patronage of the Luxury Arts
- The Origins of the Dār al-Ṣināʻa
- Structure of the Industry
- Craftsmen Working across Media
- Materials
- Stone and Marble
- Ivory
- Perfumes and Perfume Containers
- Other Object Types
- Iṣtināʻ : The Strategic Use of Objects
- Precedents for Patronage : The Two Jaʻfars
- Anonymous Objects
- How al-Manṣūr Used Objects
- Building a Corpus of ʻĀmirid Art
- Objects Associated with al-Manṣūr
- The Andalusiyyīn Minbar
- Al-Manṣūr's Marble Basin
- Objects Associated with ʻAbd al-Malik al-Muẓaffar
- The Pamplona Casket
- The Braga Pyxis
- Marble Basins
- Basin Made for ʻAbd al-Malik
- Basin Made for ʻAbd al-Malik, Found in Toledo
- Fragments from a Basin, Found at the Alhambra
- The 'Suaire de Saint Lazare' and Its Comparanda
- An ʻĀmirid Minbar for the al-Qarawiyyīn Mosque?
- Objects Associated with ʻAbd al-Raḥmān 'Sanchuelo'
- The 'Ashmolean' Pyxis
- The Xàtiva Basin
- ʻĀmirid Objects without Designated Patrons
- Ivories
- The Doha Casket
- The Bargello and V&A Caskets
- The Metropolitan Museum Panel
- Ivories from San Millán de la Cogolla
- Stone and Marble
- The 'Bādīs Basin'
- Other Objects in 'the Large Basin Group'
- Small Basins
- Basin in Madrid
- Basin in Seville
- Small basin in Granada
- Border fragment in Cordoba
- Side fragment in Seville
- The Language of ʻĀmirid Art
- Poems in Stone : Imagery, Text and Meaning in ʻĀmirid Art
- Poetic and Visual Imagery
- The Lion and Gazelle
- Nature Imagery
- The 'Heraldic' Eagle
- Banners
- The Tale of the Tortoise and Two Ducks
- Text and Image in ʻĀmirid Art
- Visualising the Ideal Ruler
- Conclusion
- Genealogy of the Banū Abī ʻĀmir, 711-1085
- Timeline of al-Manṣūr's Main Campaigns and Offices Held
- Qurʼānic Inscriptions inside the Cordoba Mosque
- Qurʼānic Inscriptions on the Eastern Façade of the Cordoba Mosque
- Inscriptions on Objects Made for the ʻĀmirids
- Bibliography
- Index.