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Author Anderson, GlaireD

Title The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia : Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad C?ba
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 INTRODUCTION; An Islamic Contribution to the Villa Discourse; The Munya and Andalusi Umayyad Art History; 2 SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF PATRONAGE; The Genesis of the Munya Tradition; The Later Emirate (796-852): Rulers, Concubines, and Eunuchs; Unfree Elite Patronage; Muhammad I and Rusafa (852-86); Caliphal Villas; The Free Aristocracy; 3 ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT; Munya Remains; The Munya of Durri al-Saghir (al-Rummaniyya); A Regional Villa Type; Decoration
Architectural Ornament, Material Culture, and the Córdoban IvoriesNature and Artifice; 4 GARDENS; Texts and Terminology; Town and Country; Water; Plantings; Agriculture; Zarf: the Context of Refinement; Nazh: the Notion of Retreat; 5 THE LANDSCAPE OF SOVEREIGNTY; The Diplomatic Villa; Feasting; Objects of Feasting and Refinement; Civic Processions; Agriculture, Good Governance, and Political Legitimacy; 6 EPILOGUE; A Munya Aesthetic; Conclusion; APPENDIX: SELECTED PASSAGES FROM IBN HAYYAN: Translations by Stuart Sears; I: On the Munya of Durri al-Saghir (al-Rummaniyya)
II: On the Emir Muhammad I and al-Rusafa (852-86)III: On the Emir Muhammad and Architecture: Recollection on the Enhancement of Buildings; IV: On the Origins of the Córdoban Rusafa; Bibliography; Index
Summary Case study of Córdoban aristocratic estates during the Umayyad dynastic period (756-1031), synthesizing archaeological evidence unearthed from the 1980s up to 2009 with extant works of Andalusi art and architecture as well as evidence from medieval Arabic texts; incorporating material and insights from the fields of agricultural, economic, social and political history; and offering a fuller picture of secular architecture and social history in the caliphal lands and the Mediterranean
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-220) and index
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Subject Architecture, Domestic -- Spain -- Córdoba
Architecture, Umayyad -- Spain -- Córdoba
Suburban homes -- Spain -- Córdoba
Architecture and society -- Spain -- Córdoba -- History -- To 1500
Architecture and society
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Umayyad
Civilization
Suburban homes
Höfische Kultur
Islamische Architektur
Villa
SUBJECT Córdoba (Spain) -- Civilization
Subject Spain -- Córdoba
Córdoba Spanien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351543347
1351543342