AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2019-12-20DOI: 10.3989/alqantara.2019.001
Almudena Ariza Armada
{"title":"Nueva tipología monetal de la ceca Madīnat al-Zahrā’ a nombre del califa ‘Abd al-Raḥmān III con leyenda en hebreo","authors":"Almudena Ariza Armada","doi":"10.3989/alqantara.2019.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2019.001","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces an unpublished dirham of the first Caliph of al-Andalus coined in the Madīnat al-Zahrā’ mint in the year 337/948-949, with a Hebrew inscription. After the description of the coin, this article offers an analysis of the epigraphic evolution of the Madīnat al-Zahrā’ mint’s name on the caliphal coinage, based on the study of eight hundred and seventy-two dirhams conserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid. The analysis of this material shows the singularity of the studied piece in the context of the caliphal coinage. On the other hand, the study of the appearance of Hebrew legends on Western Islamic coins allows the proposal of a possible reading of the Hebrew inscription that appears in the dirham. This coin is the only monetary evidence regarding the presence of Sephardic Jews in the Andalusi court during the ‘Abd al-Raḥmān III Caliphate in which Ḥasday b. Saprūṭ played a significant role.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"14 1","pages":"13-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86202737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2019-06-30DOI: 10.3989/alqantara.2019.002
Rafael Blanco-Guzmán
{"title":"La sombra omeya. Córdoba y los almohades en la segunda mitad del siglo VI/XII","authors":"Rafael Blanco-Guzmán","doi":"10.3989/alqantara.2019.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2019.002","url":null,"abstract":"Archaeology has recently revealed the existence of a new urban revitalization in Cordova during the Almohad Caliphate, barely treated until now by historiography, frequently focused on its Umayyad past. On the one hand, there was a significant investment by Almohad rulers in palaces and fortress, perhaps because Cordova was a key city in the historic conceptualization of al-Andalus and a very important place to fight against the Christian Kingdoms. On the other hand, a significant organic and private growth outside the walls has been detected. All this matches with its choice as the Andalusian capital in 557/1162 by ‘Abd al-Mu’min to legitimize his new caliphate. After his death a few months later, Abū Ya‘qūb Yūsuf moved the court back to Seville, creating a major shift in Almohad policy that did not affect the urban revival of the former Umayyad capital. In fact, during the Almohad government, Cordova would still remain in Andalusian collective mind as the main referent of ancient splendor, and as the essential nucleus of the Mālikī tradition.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"10 1","pages":"43-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73011397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2018-03-23DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.005
Maribel Fierro
{"title":"Ibn Rušd al-Ḥafīd (Averroes) y su exilio a Lucena: orígenes judíos, genealogía y conversión forzosa","authors":"Maribel Fierro","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.005","url":null,"abstract":"The accusation of Jewish ancestry formulated against Ibn Rushd al-Ḥafīd (Averroes) when he was exiled to Lucena is analyzed taking into account similar accusations made against other Andalusis during the Almoravid and Almohad periods, as well as Muslim representations of the Jews in which these were often \u0000depicted as agents of foreign heresies. The influence of the context of suspicion and anxiety created by the forced conversion of the Jews in the early Almohad period in such accusations is also dealt with.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"121 1","pages":"131-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86162409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2018-03-23DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.012
J. Albarrán
{"title":"Memoria y ŷihād en el ocaso del poder almohade: el Kitāb al-Rawḍāt al-bahiya al-wasīma fī gazawāt al-nabawiyya al-karīma","authors":"J. Albarrán","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.012","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to rediscover, contextualize and call attention to a work of maghāzī commissioned by the Almohad caliph al-Murtaḍā, found in manuscript 296 of the Qarawiyyīn library (Fes), and hitherto unnoticed by the vast majority of researchers. This work should be seen and read in the framework of the Almohad historical context in which it was written. I will also highlight the intellectual project and the legitimizing interests shown by the caliph al-Murtaḍā who, in the context of the crisis of the Almohad Empire, encouraged the revival of the Unitary movement through a new reading of the remembrance of the early days of Islam and of the Almohad movement, and of jihād . I will include the paleographic edition of the introduction to the manuscript as an annex. In this introduction one may already observe examples of some of the interesting points of this text.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"81 1","pages":"387-406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84327589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2018-03-23DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.006
Umberto Bongianino
{"title":"Quelques remarques sur l’origine des écritures coraniques arrondies en al-Andalus (V e /XI e -VI e /XII e siècles)","authors":"Umberto Bongianino","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.006","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the writing styles employed by the Andalusi calligraphers specialised in the production of Quranic manuscripts, between the 5 th /11 th and the 6 th /12 th centuries. During this crucial period, the shape, aspect, and concept of the muṣḥaf underwent a profound transformation in the Iberian Peninsula. In particular, the notion of “Quranic script” became more fluid, elusive even, mainly owing to the introduction of Maġribī round scripts for transcribing the Sacred Book. This article aims to demonstrate that all the calligraphic traits found in Maġribī “Quranic” styles were ultimately derived from the scripts employed in coeval, non-Quranic manuscripts. Also presented here is a discussion of the activity of some Andalusi copyists of the period, their aesthetic models, their social status, and of the cultural context emerging from the material aspects and colophons of the manuscripts they produced.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"58 1","pages":"153-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82653329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2018-03-23DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.008
Pedro Jiménez Castillo, J. García
{"title":"El poblamiento andalusí en las tierras de secano: el área sudoriental de La Mancha (ss. XI-XIII)","authors":"Pedro Jiménez Castillo, J. García","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.008","url":null,"abstract":"Since the 1980s, there has been a significant increase in the number of studies concerning Andalusian rural settlements linked to irrigated agriculture, both related to large suburban green belts and to small hydraulic systems. In the vast areas where water is scarce, the settlement apparently would have been concentrated in cities and fortified towns (ḥuṣūn), leaving without population most of the dry lands between them. However, thanks to the intensive survey of one of these regions, La Mancha’s Southeastern area, we are recording a dense rural settlement corresponding to a pattern unknown until now. It consists basically of small villages (qurā) in plain, devoid of community defense elements, which must have been inhabited by humble peasants, judging by the modesty of the architecture and domestic goods. Surely they make use of the scanty natural resources, which have traditionally oriented the economy of the region towards livestock and rainfed agriculture. In particular, the studied settlement would be related to the demand of wool for the export oriented textile production of the region, within the framework of the commercial expansion of that period. Apparently, most of those villages could have appeared in the eleventh century, disappearing in the middle of the thirteenth century because of the Christian conquest. Their existence would be associated with a general context of population growth that pushed the competition between urban elites and peasants pursuing the privileged agricultural areas, as well as the colonization of less favorable production areas.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"84 1","pages":"215-259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80943930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2018-03-23DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.007
J. R. D. Río
{"title":"La inscripción árabe de la Alhambra de origen desconocido. El poeta oriental del monumento","authors":"J. R. D. Río","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.007","url":null,"abstract":"The epigraphic poems written in Arabic in the Alhambra and Generalife have been studied for more than four hundred years. Therefore, their authorship and meaning have been determined. In the present paper, I will analyze one of the two poems that had not received any critical attention so far and, at the same time, I will try to explain the meaning of this poem within the Na?rid and North African context.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"9 1","pages":"189-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87425528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2018-03-23DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.010
Alfonso Jiménez Martín
{"title":"La puerta principal de la aljama almohade de Išbīliya","authors":"Alfonso Jiménez Martín","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper establishes the essential dates of the “Puerta del Perdon” (Pardon Portal) as the main door of the congregational mosque of Isbīliya, European capital of the Almohad empire. Nowadays it is the main entrance to the “Patio de los Naranjos” (“Cloister of orange trees”) of the Seville cathedral. This analysis is based on the observations gathered during the restoration works, ended in 2014. This paper contains archaeological research data, documents from several archives, together with translations of the Almohad chronicles. We collect literary and graphic information about all the Islamic elements identified, establishing hypotheses about the original monument and fixing its chronology in five essential stages: construction of the prayer room and “Patio” general outline (1172-1182), structural reforms in the courtyard related with the begin of Giralda minaret (1184-1188), completion of the minaret and decorative reform of the building, including the bronze doors of the “Puerta” (1188-1198), construction of a Moorish balcony over the Gate (1433-1496 century) and finally construction of a bell gable and its decorative completion (1578-1580).","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"19 1","pages":"287-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88460464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2018-03-23DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.011
Íñigo Almela Legorburu
{"title":"El conjunto religioso de Bāb Dukkāla: Levantamiento y análisis","authors":"Íñigo Almela Legorburu","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.011","url":null,"abstract":"The present research studies with depth the mosque of Bāb Dukkāla at Marrakech, an architectural masterpiece created under the Saadian dynasty during the sixteenth century. The main aim of this study is to complete an accurate survey, by photogrammetry process, of the main building, but also of the related and adjoining buildings. These documentation and global analysis allow us to recognize a clearly religious complex designed to be well integrated in its urban context. In addition, spatial, constructive and ornamental aspects of the complex are analyzed in order to understand the architecture developed during this historical period.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"25 1","pages":"333-386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78568645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2018-03-23DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.009
A. Almagro
{"title":"Un baño Sa‘adí con influencia otomana bajo el palacio al-Badī‘ de Marrakech","authors":"A. Almagro","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2017.009","url":null,"abstract":"We analyze in this brief study the remains excavated in the great courtyard of the al-Badī‘ Palace in Marrakech, which correspond to a ḥammām , whose disappearance was probably caused by the construction of the great Palace erected by the Saadian Sultan Aḥmad al-Manṣūr in 1578. The use in that thermal building of some characteristic forms of the Ottoman baths built at the same time suggests that its construction was performed by the brother and predecessor of al-Manṣūr, ‘Abd al-Malik, between 1576 and 1578.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":"45 1","pages":"263-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72743762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}