On Political Legitimacy in Al-Andalus
Author | : María Isabel Fierro Bello |
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Release | : 1996 |
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Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : Mariam Rosser-Owen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2021-12-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004469206 |
In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur, the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the transcendental achievements of the first two caliphs. But he also commissioned a vast extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba, founded a palatine city, conducted skilled diplomatic relations, patronised a circle of court poets, and owned some of the most spectacular objects to survive from al-Andalus, in ivory and marble. This study presents the evidence for a reconsideration of this period.
Author | : Mariam Rosser-Owen |
Publisher | : Handbook of Oriental Studies |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789004469136 |
In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the 'Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus.
Author | : Anthony H. Minnema |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2024-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501774913 |
In The Last Ta'ifa, Anthony H. Minnema shows how the Banu Hud, an Arab dynasty from Zaragoza, created and recreated their vision of an autonomous city-state (ta'ifa) in ways that reveal changes to legitimating strategies in al-Andalus and across the Mediterranean. In 1110, the Banu Hud lost control of their emirate in the north of Iberia and entered exile, ending their century-long rule. But far from accepting their fate, the dynasty adapted by serving Christian kings, nurturing rebellions, and carving out a new state in Murcia to recover, maintain, and grow their power. By tracing the Banu Hud across chronicles, charters, and coinage, Minnema shows how dynastic leaders borrowed their rivals' claims and symbols and engaged in similar types of military campaigns and complex alliances in an effort to cultivate authority. Drawing on Arabic, Latin, and vernacular sources, The Last Ta'ifa uses the history of the Banu Hud to connect the pursuit of legitimacy in al-Andalus to the politics of other emerging kingdoms and emirates. The actions of Hudid leaders, Minnema shows, echoed across the region as other kings, rebels, and adventurers employed parallel methods to gain power and resist the forces of centralization, highlighting the constructed nature of legitimacy in al-Andalus and the Mediterranean.
Author | : Mariam Rosser-Owen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
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ISBN | : 9781472458933 |
This book presents a cohesive and integrated study of the artistic and cultural patronage of the âe~Äemirid dynasty, regents of Hisham II (r. 976-c.1010), the last Umayyad caliph of al-Andalus (Islamic Spain), who inherited the throne as a minor. Its particular focus is the dynasty's founder, al-Mansur, who was Hishamâe(tm)s hajib-his chamberlain and lieutenant-and ruled de facto between 976 and 1002. Not only did al-Mansur patronize a flourishing court as which new literary forms developed, he constructed a palace-city, and commissioned the largest extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba. Moreover, al-Mansur and his sons sponsored a luxury arts industry which produced some of the largest and most spectacular works to survive from medieval Iberia. Drawing together history, poetry, archaeology, epigraphy, architecture, and objects in different media from diverse international collections, Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus identifies a corpus of objects that should be considered as âe~Äemirid and discusses their imagery in reference to the messages these regents intended to convey. As the first book-length scholarly examination of the full range of âe~Äemirid cultural patronage, Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus elucidates the ways in which the âe~Äemirids used cultural patronage as an expression of their political legitimacy.
Author | : Janina M. Safran |
Publisher | : Harvard CMES |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780932885241 |
The Second Umayyad Caliphate recovers the Andalusi Umayyad argument for caliphal legitimacy through an analysis of caliphal rhetoric--based on proclamations, correspondence, and panegyric poetry--and caliphal ideology, as shown through monuments, ceremony, and historiography.
Author | : Isabel Alfonso |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789004133051 |
This volume provides relevant insights into medieval political legitimation, and its impact on political competition and notions of power. With a main focus on medieval Castile, the political discourses purporting to legitimate practices of power are discussed, both as pieces of textual material and in their wider historical context.
Author | : Hugh Kennedy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317870417 |
This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history of this region has been badly neglected in comparison with studies of other states in medieval Europe. When considered at all, it has been largely written from Christian sources and seen in terms of the Christian Reconquest. Hugh Kennedy raises the profile of this important area, bringing the subject alive with vivid translations from Arab sources. This will be fascinating reading for historians of medieval Europe and for historians of the middle east drawing out the similarities and contrasts with other areas of the Muslim world.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004393587 |
Byzantium in Dialogue with the Mediterranean. History and Heritage shows that throughout the centuries of its existence, Byzantium continuously communicated with other cultures and societies on the European continent, as well as North Africa and in the East.
Author | : Janina M. Safran |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801468019 |
Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of a land of religious tolerance and cultural cooperation, the fact is that we know relatively little about how Muslims governed Christians and Jews in al-Andalus and about social relations among Muslims, Christians, and Jews. In Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus, Janina M. Safran takes a close look at the structure and practice of Muslim political and legal-religious authority and offers a rare look at intercommunal life in Iberia during the first three centuries of Islamic rule. Safran makes creative use of a body of evidence that until now has gone largely untapped by historians-the writings and opinions of Andalusi and Maghribi jurists during the Umayyad dynasty. These sources enable her to bring to life a society undergoing dramatic transformation. Obvious differences between conquerors and conquered and Muslims and non-Muslims became blurred over time by transculturation, intermarriage, and conversion. Safran examines ample evidence of intimate contact between individuals of different religious communities and of legal-juridical accommodation to develop an argument about how legal-religious authorities interpreted the social contract between the Muslim regime and the Christian and Jewish populations. Providing a variety of examples of boundary-testing and negotiation and bringing judges, jurists, and their legal opinions and texts into the narrative of Andalusi history, Safran deepens our understanding of the politics of Umayyad rule, makes Islamic law tangibly social, and renders intercommunal relations vividly personal.