{"title":"Al-Dawla al-ʿĀmiriyya: Constructing the ʿĀmirid State","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004469204_003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469204_003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179147,"journal":{"name":"Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133463941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004469204_011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469204_011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179147,"journal":{"name":"Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129370087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appropriating Diplomacy: The ʿĀmirid Court","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004469204_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469204_004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179147,"journal":{"name":"Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128115368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dār al-Ṣināʿa: ʿĀmirid Patronage of the Luxury Arts","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004469204_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469204_008","url":null,"abstract":"It was said that the cause of his triumph was service to the sayyida Ṣubḥ al-baskunsiyya, mother of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Hishām, and that she was the main reason by which the government and authority passed to him in a short time. He gained this woman’s trust by the quality of his service, by his success in gaining her satisfaction, and by his generosity in the offer of gifts and presents, until he captured her soul and dominated her heart, [which in turn] dominated that of her lord, [al-Ḥakam al-Mustanṣir]. Ibn Abī ʿĀmir strove to do good for her, to make ever more frequent his attentions to her, and he created [new means] to do so, by bringing her things which had no equal [and no-one had ever seen before]. [He did this] until he conceived for her a palace of silver, which he did when he had in his hands the control of the mint. He worked on [the palace] for a time and spent on it an immense quantity of money, to create a novelty [the like of which] nothing more marvellous had ever been seen. They transported it from the house of Ibn Abī ʿĀmir so that the people could see it and they spoke about it for a long time [afterwards]. Ibn Abī ʿĀmir occupied the highest place in her heart: [she] strove to help him, she gave him her support and spoke for him, until [the point] where the people gossiped about her passion for him. One day al-Ḥakam said to some of his confidants: ‘Who is he who [has used] this youth to bring my women to his side, until their hearts are seized? Who is he, who even though they have the pleasures of the world at their disposal, they do no more than describe his gifts and are not satisfied with anything unless he has given it to them? Either [I have] a mage full of wisdom or I have a diligent servant. I am nervous of what might come from his hands ...’ Ibn ʿIdhārī, Bayān II:268–9 [translation 416]1","PeriodicalId":179147,"journal":{"name":"Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121726417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Politics of Piety: Al-Manṣūr’s Extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004469204_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469204_007","url":null,"abstract":"In this year [381/991–2] al-Manṣūr began Hishām’s extension (al-ziyyādat al-hishāmiyya) to the Great Mosque of Cordoba. He extended it almost by half again of what had been made by earlier sovereigns. The works began on the first of Rajab of the year 381 [13 September 991] and the prayer could be made in Rajab of the year 384 [August–September 994]; they lasted, therefore, three years. On the works there laboured Berbers, noble knights from Galicia and Frankia, chained together with the workmen until it was concluded. Dhikr Bilād I:193–4 [II:182]","PeriodicalId":179147,"journal":{"name":"Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117057591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building a Corpus of ʿĀmirid Art","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004469204_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469204_009","url":null,"abstract":"What is most amazing about this hall, and what ignites the vision, is its decoration. The eyes remained locked to the great frieze which ran around it on its lower part; it was of white marble, polished so that its surface resembled ivory, because of the purity of its shine and the clarity of its colour. It was worked with figures of animals, birds and trees with fruits, and many of these figures connected by tree branches and fruits, capriciously, and they corresponded to one another in a game of forms, so that he who looked at them fixedly had the sensation that they moved, or that they made signs to him. But each figure was isolated from the others, and had a different form and ignited the gaze from top to bottom. This frieze was bordered on top by an engraved inscription which ran all around the hall from its entrance, which hardly lacked in being more elegant than the penning of a calligrapher; its letters had a marvellous form; they could be read from a long distance and contained beautiful verses dedicated to their constructor al-Ma ʾmūn. Ibn Jabīr, late eleventh century1","PeriodicalId":179147,"journal":{"name":"Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123718210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poems in Stone: Imagery, Text and Meaning in ʿĀmirid Art","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004469204_010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469204_010","url":null,"abstract":"In the centre of the hall is a large basin of green water in which the turtles continually make sounds. The water pours from the jaws of a lion whose mouth could only be more terrible if it spoke. It is of scented aloeswood and around its neck one sees a handsome necklace of pearls. Meanwhile, the jasmine watches from its throne, as if it were a king, When a sudden blaze of light would have brought down the head And narcissus, wallflowers, violets and roses stop exhaling their perfume. They watch languidly, and out of happiness they can scarcely contain the desire to speak to you, despite not having tongues. At your side you have lilies that sprout from themselves, The luminosity of the spring, such is the beauty which they give out. All of these [flowers], in their abundant diversity, remind you Of the victorious banners trembling on the day of combat. In this hall, without doubt, a king, whose riches are without number, has gathered all happiness[es] for his people. And thanks to him the West has attained such power That even the East feels envy because of him. Abū Marwān al-Jazīrī (d. 1003)1","PeriodicalId":179147,"journal":{"name":"Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134193274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Architecture as Titulature: al-Madīnat al-Zāhira","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004469204_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469204_006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179147,"journal":{"name":"Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121593184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The Creation of Loyalty’: Public and Private Staging of the ʿĀmirid Court","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004469204_005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469204_005","url":null,"abstract":"When Sulaymān [al-Mustaʿīn] established himself in Cordoba ... those that remained of the ʿĀmirid poets (shuʿarāʾ ʿāmiriyyīn) that were still residing in Cordoba at that time began to compose panegyric for him in the hope of tapping the stores of his generosity. So they composed in his praise good poems in which they appealed to religion (dīn) and manly virtue (murūʾa), and most of them recited them openly in his public audience. He listened with manifest delight, but then defrauded them in accepting the panegyric, for he neither rained down generous rewards upon them nor even sprinkled. Because of this the dispersal of the group [of poets] from Cordoba was completed and most of them abandoned his protection. Thus every trace of culture (adab) was erased there and was vanquished by barbarism, and the Cordobans reverted from their customary humanism to blatant vulgarity, and nobility was abandoned. Ibn Ḥayyān, apud Ibn Bassām 1989, I, i:501","PeriodicalId":179147,"journal":{"name":"Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134422946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}