The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors : Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Aghlabid Timeline -- List of Aghlabid Rulers -- Maps -- Chapter 1 The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors: An Introduction -- Part 1 State-building -- Chapter 2 The Origins of the Aghlabids -- Chapter 3 Comment les Aghlabides ont-ils gouverné l'Ifriqiya ? -- Chapter 4 Reinterpreting the Aghlabids' Sicilian Policy (827-910) -- Chapter 5 Topographies of Power in Aghlabid-Era Kairouan -- Chapter 6 L'atelier monétaire d'al-ʿAbbassiyya: du « vieux château » (al-Qasr al-Qadim) à la ville princière aghlabide -- Chapter 7 Le changement du type monétaire des dinars aghlabides sous le règne de Ziyadat Allah III : évolution ou révolution artistique ? -- Chapter 8 Ziryab in the Aghlabid Court -- Part 2 Monuments: The Physical Construction of Power -- Chapter 9 La Grande Mosquée de Kairouan : textes et contexte archéologique -- Chapter 10 The Marble Panels in the Mihrab of the Great Mosque of Kairouan -- Chapter 11 Fragments d'histoire du minbar de Kairouan -- Chapter 12 Les carreaux verts et jaunes « cachés » du mihrab de la Grande Mosquée de Kairouan et analogie avec une sélection d'objets kairouanais -- Chapter 13 La Grande Mosquée Zitouna : un authentique monument aghlabide (milieu du IXe siècle) -- Chapter 14 The Zaytuna: The Mosque of a Rebellious City -- Chapter 15 Le coufique des inscriptions monumentales et funéraires aghlabides -- Chapter 16 Les ribāṭs aghlabides : un problème d'identification -- Part 3 Ceramics: Morphology and Mobility -- Chapter 17 La céramique aghlabide de Raqqada et les productions de l'Orient islamique : parenté et filiation -- Chapter 18 Aghlabid Palermo: Written Sources and Archaeological Evidence -- Chapter 19 Palermo in the Ninth and Early Tenth Century: Ceramics as Archaeological Markers of Cultural Dynamics.

Chapter 20 La céramique des niveaux idrisside et zénète de la Mosquée al-Qarawiyyin de Fès (IXe-Xe siècles) -- Chapter 21 Material Culture Interactions between al-Andalus and the Aghlabids -- Part 4 Neighbors: North Africa and the Central Mediterranean in the Ninth Century -- Chapter 22 Jerba of the Ninth Century: Under Aghlabid Control? -- Chapter 23 Islamic Bari between the Aghlabids and the Two Empires -- Chapter 24 Nakur : un émirat rifain pro-omeyyade contemporain des Aghlabides -- Chapter 25 Idris I and the Berbers -- Chapter 26 Sijilmassa in the Footsteps of the Aghlabids: The Hypothesis of a Ninth-Century New Royal City in Tafilalt Plain (Morocco) -- Chapter 27 Zuwila and Fazzan in the Seventh to Tenth Centuries: The Emergence of a New Trading Center -- Part 5 Legacy -- Chapter 28 The Materiality of the Blue Quran: A Physical and Technological Study -- Chapter 29 The Palermo Quran (AH 372/982-3 CE) and its Historical Context -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Aghlabids and their Neighbors an international group of scholars present the latest research on the history, art, architecture, archaeology, and numismatics of a major early Islamic dynasty, illuminating their place within medieval social and economic networks.

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