Colonial Zaytuna: The Making of a Minaret in French-Occupied Tunisia

IF 0.7 2区 艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE
Muqarnas Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI:10.1163/22118993-00381p07
Sihem Lamine
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In March 1892, eleven years after the establishment of the French protectorate in Tunisia, a congregation of ulemas, religious scholars, and students, as well as representatives of the waqf administration (Jamʿiyyat al-Awqāf) gathered in the ṣaḥn of the Zaytuna Mosque to lay the cornerstone of a new minaret. The pre-exiting tower, whose latest major renovations dated from the seventeenth-century Ottoman Muradid times, was deemed hazardous; it was therefore entirely demolished and replaced by a large-scale replica of the nearby Hafsid Kasbah Mosque of Tunis. The new minaret of the Zaytuna Mosque rose in tandem with the Saint Vincent de Paul Cathedral of Tunis, and simultaneously with the nascent French neighborhoods of Tunis outside and along the medina walls. This article explores the intricate and fascinating context of the construction of a monumental minaret in a city that was gradually severing ties with its Ottoman past and surrendering to a newly established colonial rule. It questions the role and aspirations of the French administration in the minaret project, the reasons that led to the revival of the Almohad architectural style in the late nineteenth-century Maghrib, and the legacy left by the re-appropriation of this style in North Africa.
殖民地扎伊图纳:在法国占领的突尼斯建造一座尖塔
1892年3月,法国在突尼斯建立保护国11年后,乌列马人、宗教学者和学生以及宗教基金管理机构(Jamʿiyyat al-Awqāf)的代表聚集在ṣ一ḥ在Zaytuna清真寺的n,为一座新的宣礼塔奠基。这座预先退出的塔楼,其最新的重大翻修可追溯到17世纪奥斯曼穆拉迪时代,被认为是危险的;因此,它被完全拆除,取而代之的是附近突尼斯哈夫希德-卡斯巴清真寺的大型复制品。Zaytuna清真寺的新宣礼塔与突尼斯的圣文森特·德·保罗大教堂同时拔地而起,同时与麦地那墙外和麦地那墙上的突尼斯新生的法国社区同步拔地而起。这篇文章探讨了在一座城市建造纪念性宣礼塔的复杂而迷人的背景,这座城市正逐渐与奥斯曼帝国的过去断绝联系,并向新建立的殖民统治投降。它质疑法国政府在宣礼塔项目中的作用和愿望,导致19世纪末马格里布复兴阿尔莫哈德建筑风格的原因,以及这种风格在北非被重新挪用所留下的遗产。
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Muqarnas
Muqarnas Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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