Revisiting al-Andalus (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World)

341 Pages·2007·6.29 MB·English

by  Anderson

Revisiting Al-Andalus
The Medieval and Early
Modern Iberian World
(formerly Medieval Iberian Peninsula)
Editors
Larry J. Simon (Western Michigan University)
Gerard Wiegers (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Arie Schippers (University of Amsterdam)
Donna M. Rogers (Dalhousie University)
Isidro J. Rivera (University of Kansas)
VOLUME 34
Revisiting Al-Andalus
Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic
Iberia and Beyond
Edited by
Glaire D. Anderson and Mariam Rosser-Owen
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2007
Cover illustration: The Alhambra Court, Crystal Palace, Sydenham. View from
the nave into the Court of the Lions. Tinted photograph, Crystal Palace Guide and
Souvenir, early 20th century.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations .................................................................... vii
Contributors .............................................................................. xv
Introduction .............................................................................. xvii
Glaire D. Anderson and Mariam Rosser-Owen
Map ........................................................................................... xxxvi
Part I
Architecture and Urbanism in Umayyad Córdoba
Madīnat al-Zahrā(cid:120): Transformation of a Caliphal City .......... 3
Antonio Vallejo Triano
The Dwellings of Madīnat al-Zahrā(cid:120): a Methodological
Approach ............................................................................... 27
Antonio Almagro
Villa (munya) Architecture in Umayyad Córdoba: Preliminary
Considerations ...................................................................... 53
Glaire D. Anderson
Part II
Reading the Regency
Poems in Stone: the Iconography of (cid:123)Āmirid Poetry, and
its ‘Petrifi cation’ on (cid:123)Āmirid Marbles ................................... 83
Mariam Rosser-Owen
Love in the Time of Fitna: ‘Courtliness’ and the
‘Pamplona’ Casket ................................................................ 99
Cynthia Robinson
Part III
Uncovering Almohad Iberia
Evolution of the Andalusi Urban Landscape: from the
Dispersed to the Saturated Medina ..................................... 115
Julio Navarro and Pedro Jiménez
vi contents
Re-Examining Almohad Economies in South-western
al-Andalus through Petrological Analysis of Archaeological
Ceramics ................................................................................. 143
Rebecca Bridgman
Part IV
Conquest and Colonisers: al-Andalus and Beyond
in the Sixteenth Century
The Andalusi House in Granada (Thirteenth to Sixteenth
Centuries) ................................................................................ 169
Antonio Orihuela
Understanding Architectural Change at the Alhambra:
Stratigraphic Analysis of the Western Gallery, Court of
the Myrtles .............................................................................. 193
Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas
Sixteenth-Century Viceregal Ceramics and the Creation of
a Mudéjar Myth in New Spain .............................................. 209
María Judith Feliciano
Part V
Myth and Modernity: Constructions of al-Andalus
Owen Jones and the Alhambra Court at the Crystal Palace .... 227
Kathryn Ferry
Visions of al-Andalus in Twentieth-Century Spanish Mosque
Architecture ............................................................................. 247
Jennifer Roberson
Bibliography ................................................................................ 271
Index ........................................................................................... 291
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Vallejo
Figures
Fig. 1 Plan of the palace-city of Madīnat al-Zahrā(cid:120), showing Roman
aqueduct (A) and its caliphal spur (B).
Fig. 2 Plan of the excavated zone of the palace, showing House of
Ja(cid:123)far (13), and the Court of the Pillars (16).
Fig. 3 Detail of the sanitary infrastructure on the upper terrace
of the palace. The central rectilinear channel is the Roman
channel.
Fig. 4 4.1. Plan of the House of Ja(cid:123)far;
4.2. Pre-existing houses on the site of the House of Ja(cid:123)far
(13A, 13B and 13C).
Fig. 5 5.1. Building known as the Court of the Pillars
5.2. Pre-existing buildings at the Court of the Pillars (16A
and 16B).
Plates
Plate 1 Aerial view, excavated palace zone.
Plate 2 2.1. House of Ja(cid:123)far during restoration;
2.2. Court of the Pillars.
Plate 3 3.1., 3.2., 3.3. Pre-existing buildings on the site of the House
of Ja(cid:123)far.
Plate 4 4.1., 4.2., 4.3. Pre-existing buildings and structures on the site
of the Court of the Pillars.
Colour Plates
Colour Plate 1 1A. Interior, Hall of (cid:123)Abd al-Ra(cid:152)mān III (so-called
‘Salón Oriental’, or Eastern Hall)
1B. Interior doorway with vegetal ornament, House
of Ja(cid:123)far.
Almagro
Figures
Fig. 1 General Plan of the palace of Madīnat al-Zahrā(cid:120) with the
location of the residential buildings marked.
viii list of illustrations
Fig. 2 Houses without courtyards: (A) Dār al-Mulk; (B) al-Munya
al-Rummāniyya
Fig. 3 Houses with courtyards but without porticos.
Fig. 4 Houses with courtyards and one portico.
Fig. 5 Houses with courtyards and several porticos.
Colour Plates
Colour Plate 2 2A. Interior room of the Dār al-Mulk.
2B. Courtyard of Service Quarter B.
Colour Plate 3 3A. Main courtyard of the House of Ja(cid:123)far.
3B. Interior courtyard at the House of Ja(cid:123)far.
Colour Plate 4 4A. Courtyard of the House of the Small Pool from
the eastern portico.
4B. North-east corner of the House of the Small
Pool.
Colour Plate 5 Interior of the western portico-room of the House
of the Small Pool.
Colour Plate 6 6A. Court of the Pillars.
6B. First hall on the west side of the Court of the
Pillars.
Anderson
Figures
Fig. 1 Map of Córdoba’s western suburban zone with approximate
locations of munya remains marked with *. Courtesy of the
Conjunto Arqueológico de Madīnat al-Zahrā(cid:120), and after Anto-
nio Vallejo Triano, Madīnat al-Zahrā(cid:120): Guía Ofi cial del Conjunto
Arqueológico (Junta de Andalucía: Consejería de la Cultura,
2004)
Fig. 2 Fragments from the Huerta de Valladares, in the Museo
Arqueológico Provincial, Córdoba
Fig. 3 Plan of al-Rummāniyya, showing the terraces and extent of
the grounds around the munya; after Velázquez Bosco, Medina
Azzahra y Alamiriya
Fig. 4 (A) al-Rummāniyya, lower terrace walls
(B) al-Rummāniyya, monumental pool, upper terrace
Fig. 5 Sculptural fragments recovered from al-Rummāniyya; after
Velázquez Bosco, Medina Azzahra y Alamiriya
list of illustrations ix
Fig. 6 (A) Painted wall decoration, Madīnat al-Zahrā(cid:120)
(B) Painted dado, excavated bath, Córdoba (Campo Santo
de los Mártires)
Fig. 7 (A) Large basin excavated at al-Rummāniyya, in the Museo
Arqueológico Provincial, Córdoba
(B) Detail of design on the al-Rummāniyya basin’s exterior
Fig. 8 (A) Small basin excavated at al-Rummāniyya, in the Museo
Arqueológico Provincial, Córdoba
(B) Detail of design on the small basin’s exterior
Colour Plates
Colour Plate 7 7A. Panels from the Cortijo del Alcaide, in the Museo
Arqueológico Provincial, Córdoba.
7B. Remains of pool, Cortijo del Alcaide.
Colour Plate 8 Finds from other probable munya sites, in the Museo
Arqueológico Provincial, Córdoba:
8A. Chinales
8B. Arruzafa
Rosser-Owen
Figures
Fig. 1 The Granada basin, showing where it was preserved in the
Alhambra complex, until the nineteenth century. After Owen
Jones, Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra, Vol. I,
pl. XLVI, 1842. By permission of the National Art Library.
Fig. 2 View of the original front of the Marrakesh basin. The
background shows the ablutions courtyard in the Madrasah
Ibn Yūsuf, where it was found. After Gallotti, “Sur un cuve
de marbre”, Fig. 1.
Colour Plates
Colour Plate 9 9A. Marble basin made for al-Man(cid:201)ūr, d. 987–988
(the ‘Madrid basin’), in the Museo Arqueológico
Nacional, Madrid (inv. 50428). Courtesy of
the Archivo Fotográfi co, Museo Arqueológico
Nacional.
9B. Marble basin made for (cid:123)Abd al-Malik ibn al-
Man(cid:201)ūr (the ‘Marrakesh basin’), in the Dār Si
Sa(cid:123)īd in Marrakesh. Photograph by Bruce White.
Photograph © 1992 The Metropolitan Museum
of Art.