AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.002
Juan Manuel Barrios Rozúa
{"title":"El Generalife y las ruinas árabes de sus contornos. Un capítulo inédito de los Nuevos Paseos de Simón de Argote","authors":"Juan Manuel Barrios Rozúa","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.002","url":null,"abstract":"Simon de Argote’s Nuevos paseos (1806-1807) is one of the most remarkable works written on the Alhambra. It offers an Enlightenment response to the distortions of the Roman past of Granada of the cleric and Arabist Velazquez de Echeverria. Unfortunately, the work was unfinished because it did not cover all the “Arabian antiques” located outside the Nasrid city. In this article, an unknown chapter about the Generalife and the ruins around is presented, accompanied with critical notes. It was given by the author to King Joseph Bonaparte during his stay in Granada and it was kept among the papers the king had lost at the Battle of Vitoria. The study of the documents found in different archives and publications of that time sheds some light on the mysterious personality of Simon de Argote and deepens in the knowledge of his relationship with General Horace Sebastiani, a military who was embassador in Istanbul and other cities of the Middle East under Napoleon’s order, before he ruled the Kingdom of Granada.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83685847","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 : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.003
P. Sénac, S. Gasc, Pierre-Yves Melmoux, Laurent Savarese
{"title":"Nouveaux vestiges de la présence musulmane en Narbonnaise au VIIIᵉ siècle","authors":"P. Sénac, S. Gasc, Pierre-Yves Melmoux, Laurent Savarese","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.003","url":null,"abstract":"The years following the discovery of numerous Islamic stamps in Ruscino have been marked by the exhumation of new remains of \u0000the 8ᵗʰ century’s first half in Narbonnaise. Besides new stamps and some dirhams, approximately twenty fulūs have been discovered, essentially in the departments of Aude and Pyrenees Orientales. The localization suggests the existence of military establishments, especially to the south of Narbonne (conquered by Franks in 759), along the Via Domitia that is bordering on Massif des Corbieres.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80590268","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 : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.012
Sonja Brentjes
{"title":"Sancionar el conocimiento","authors":"Sonja Brentjes","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.012","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I discuss stories about rulers and princes of three dynasties - Abbasid, Norman and Timurid – and their narrative representation \u0000as prime knowers of the mathematical sciences, geography and history. I argue that they constitute one set of positive forms of sanctioning or contesting knowledge in those societies by prescribing hierarchies of knowledge forms and hierarchies of people and institutions that decide about the veracity of knowledge. I suggest that these stories share their origin and meaning in an environment of legitimizing propaganda for the various rulers and princes. I also claim that the value and position of scientific knowledge in these stories differ, starting from what apparently were personal interests of a ruler and leading to its integration into what was considered necessary for the education of a prince and the cultured behaviour of a ruler. Hence, these stories about knowledge and rulers present images of knowledge that delineate the status of scholars in those three societies and thus define possibilities and set boundaries for learning and practicing scholarly fields.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81834430","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 : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.004
Luis-Gethsemaní Pérez-Aguilar, Enrique Ruiz Prieto, Á. G. Peña, J. Mellado, Gabriel Carvajal Mateos
{"title":"Sobre la localización geográfica de la qarya andalusí de Sobuerva (Šuburbal) y otras cuestiones","authors":"Luis-Gethsemaní Pérez-Aguilar, Enrique Ruiz Prieto, Á. G. Peña, J. Mellado, Gabriel Carvajal Mateos","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.004","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to examine all known documentation for the study of the Muslim hamlet ( al-qarya ) of Sobuerva, cited ocasionally in Medieval and Modern Age sources. Several authors have proposed some hypotheses about the location of this place: Bormujos, Tomares and Guillena. In our paper we try to demonstrate the invalidity of such hypotheses and to offer a new one after the review of a more complete documentation. Basically, our arguments focus on the important documentary sources and the utilization of a Geographical Information System (GIS). The latter responds to the need to understand better the territorial and frontier evolution of a list of current towns of Aljarafe from the Middle Ages to the present, approaching to the available historical and archaeological evidences. The final result leads us to propose the location of the core of the qarya of Sobuerva in the present municipality of Mairena del Aljarafe.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87592787","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 : 2013-12-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.016
D. Stewart
{"title":"Dissimulation in Sunni Islam and Morisco Taqiyya","authors":"D. Stewart","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.016","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides an outline of the religious doctrine of taqiyya or dissimulation in Sunni Islam, drawing on Qur’ānic commentaries, hadīth compilations, legal manuals, and ethical treatises. Moriscos and the North African jurists who advised them had access to discussions of taqiyya and the closely connected legal dispensation of coercion ( ikrāh ) through these sources, many of which were wellknown in al-Andalus before the Reconquista, and some of which continued to be popular afterwards. Attention to this material helps one to interpret the 1504 fatwā of Ibn Abī Jum’a al-Wahrānī to the Moriscos and in particular his discussion of blasphemy under coercion.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73094461","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 : 2013-12-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.010
A. Baadj
{"title":"Saladin and the Ayyubid Campaigns in the Maghrib","authors":"A. Baadj","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.010","url":null,"abstract":"This article concerns the conquest of Libya and Tunisia by Saladin (Salah al-Din) and the Ayyubids in the 1170s and 1180s. First it presents a reconstruction of the campaigns conducted by the Ayyubid mamlūks Sharaf al-Dīn Qarāqūsh and Ibn Qarātikīn in Libya and the conflict in Ifrīqiya (Tunisia) between the Almohads and the Ayyubids based on the relevant primary sources. Then the extent to which Saladin was responsible for these military expeditions is considered and finally the issue of the motive behind them is discussed. It is concluded that Salāh al-Dīn and his amirs invaded the Maghrib in order to control the northern termini of the eastern and central axes of the trans-Saharan trade routes, thereby gaining access to the West African gold which passed along these routes. This occurred at a time when there was a great shortage of precious metals in Egypt and Saladin was in need of cash to pay for his wars with the Crusaders in Palestine.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90437162","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 : 2013-12-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.018
D. Rubio
{"title":"La taqiyya en las fuentes cristianas: indicios de su presencia entre los moriscos","authors":"D. Rubio","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.018","url":null,"abstract":"It has been commonplace to employ taqiyya to explain the religious beliefs of the Moriscos and the failure of assimilation. However, in recent years, renowned scholars have questioned this interpretation using three arguments: the absence of the term in Hispanic texts; the lack of legal literature that supports it; and the Sunni beliefs of the Spanish Muslims. The aim of this brief article is to refute some of these sceptical thoughts. For this, I mention several Christian sources of the period that, without using this particular term, suggest that the Moriscos knew about and embraced this doctrine.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87329371","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 : 2013-12-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.015
Robert Gleave
{"title":"La eficacia legal de actos de taqiyya en la jurisprudencia imami: al-Risāla fi l-taqiyya de ‛Alī al-Karakī","authors":"Robert Gleave","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.015","url":null,"abstract":"The Imāmī Shī‛a are particularly associated with the doctrine of dissimulation ( taqiyya ). Generally speaking, Imāmi jurists allowed believers to act in contravention to the (true) Sharī‛a in circumstances of taqiyya . For these permitted transgressions there was no punishment, sinfulness or required repetition or compensation, provided the legal actors stayed within some stipulated boundaries. In the tenth/sixteenth century, the famous Arab jurist ‛Alī al-Karakī introduced an innovation in the Shī‛ī legal rules of taqiyya , devising a large category of taqiyya generated acts for which there may be no sin, but there was still a legal transgression, and hence the possible requirement to repeat or compensate for the acts’ commission. In this article I translate and provide an explanatory commentary on his “Treatise on Dissimulation”, and analyse some of the reactions to it in later Shī‛ī jurisprudence.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72463431","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 : 2013-12-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.017
Luis F. Bernabé-Pons
{"title":"Taqiyya, niyya y el islam de los moriscos","authors":"Luis F. Bernabé-Pons","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2013.017","url":null,"abstract":"The claim that Moriscos knew and made use of the Islamic concept of taqiyya has become almost a requirement for all those interested in the circumstances of their lives as cryptomuslims. However, the term is not found in the writings of the Moriscos, although the fatwa of the Mufti of Oran gave them some guidance for practicing their religion within a hostile environment. Without denying that Moriscos came to dissimulation for their own safety, the aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to reconsider the accuracy of the concept of niyya to explain how the Moriscos developed their belief and worship and, on the other hand, to argue that, since the Mudejar period, the Moriscos only did what was the usual practice around them","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87398045","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}