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Title Revisiting al-Andalus [electronic resource] : perspectives on the material culture of islamic Iberia and beyond / edited by Glaire D. Anderson and Mariam Rosser-Owen.

Imprint Boston : Brill, 2007.

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Description xxxvi, 303 p. : ill., maps.
Series The Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; 34
Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; 34.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-289) and index.
Contents Madinat al-Zahra: : transformation of a caliphal city / Antonio Vallejo Triano -- The dwellings of Madinat al-Zahra : a methodological approach / Antonio Almagro Villa (Munya) -- Architecture in Umayyad, Cordoba : preliminary considerations / Glaire D. Anderson -- Poems in stone : the iconography of amirid Poetry, and its "Petrification" on Amirid Marbles / Mariam Rosser-Owen -- Love in the ime of Fitna : 'Courtliness' and the "Pamplona" casket / Cynthia Robinson -- Evolution of the Andalusi urban landscape: from the dispersed to the saturated Medina / Julio Navarro and Pedro Jimenez -- Re-examining Almohad economies in South-western al-Andalus through petrological analysis of archaeological ceramics / Rebecca Bridgman -- The Andalusi house in Granada (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries) / Antonio Orihuela -- Understanding architectural change at the Alhambra : stratigraphicanalysis of the Western Gallery, Court of the Myrtles / Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas -- Sixteenth-century viceregal ceramics and the creation of a Mudejar myth in New Spain / Maria Judith Feliciano -- Owen Jones and the Alhambra court at the Crystal Palace / Kathryn Ferry -- Visions of al-Andalus in twentieth-century Spanish Mosque architecture / Jennifer Roberson.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Muslims -- Spain -- Andalusia -- History.
Andalusia (Spain) -- Civilization -- Islamic influences.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Anderson, Glaire D.
Rosser-Owen, Mariam.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004162273 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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