The Aghlabids and their neighbours : Art and material culture in Ninth-Century North Africa

La 4e de couverture indique : "The first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, despite the canonical status of its monuments and artworks in early Islamic art history. 'The Aghlabids & their Neighbors' focuses new attention on this key dynasty. The essays in this volume, produced by an international group of specialists in history, art and architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty's interactions with neighbours in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and revealing the centrality of the dynasty and the region to global economic and political networks." The Aghlabids and their neighbors : an introduction / Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-Owen The origins of the Aghlabids / Hugh Kennedy Comment les Aghlabides ont-ils gouvernes l'Ifriqiya? / Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi Reinterpreting the Aghlabids' Sicilian policy (827-910) / Annliese Nef Topographies of power in Aghlabid-era Kairouan / Caroline Goodson L'atelier monetaire d'al-'Abbassiyya : du "vieux chateau" (al-Qasr al-Qadim) a la ville princiere aghlabide / Abdelhamid Fenina Le changement du type monetaire des dinars aghlabides sous le regne de Ziyadat Allah III : evolution ou revolution artistique? / Mohamed Ghodhbane Ziryab in the Aghlabid court / Dwight Reynolds La Grande Mosquee de Kairouan : textes et contexte archeologique / Faouzi Mahfoudh The marble panels in the mihrab of the Great Mosque of Kairouan / Jonathan M. Bloom Fragments d'histoire du minbar de Kairouan / Nadege Picotin and Claire Delery Les carreaux verts et jaunes "caches" du mihrab de la Grande Mosquee de Kairouan et analogie avec une selection d'objets kairouanais / Khadija Hamdi La Grande Mosquee Zitouna : un authentique monument aghlabide (milieu du IXe siecle) / Abdelaziz Daoulatli The Zaytuna : the mosque of a rebellious city / Sihem Lamine. Le coufique des inscriptions monumentales et funeraires aghlabides / Lotfi Abdeljaouad Les riba's aghlabides : un probleme d'identification / Ahmed El Bahi La ceramique aghlabide de Raqqada et les productions de l'Orient islamique : parente et filiation / Soundes Gragueb Chatt Aghlabid Palermo : written sources and archaeological evidence / Fabiola Ardizzone, Elena Pezzini, and Viva Sacco Palermo in the ninth and early tenth century : ceramics as archaeological markers of cultural dynamics / Lucia Arcifa and Alessandra Bagnera La ceramique des niveaux idrisside et Zenete de la Mosquee al-Qarawiyyin de Fes (IXe-Xe siecles) / Kaoutar El Baljani, Ahmed S. Ettahiri, and Abdallah Fili Material culture interactions between al-Andalus and the Aghlabids / Elena Salinas and Irene Montill Jerba of the ninth century : under Aghlabid control? / Renata Holod and Tarek Kahlaoui Islamic Bari between the Aghlabids and the two empires / Lorenzo Bondioli Nakur : un emirat rifain pro-omeyyade contemporain des Aghlabides / Patrice Cressier Idris I and the Berbers / Elizabeth Fentress Sijilmassa in the footsteps of the Aghlabids : the hypothesis of a ninth-century new royal city in the Tafilalt Plain (Morocco) / Chloe Capel Zuwila and Fazzan in the seventh to tenth centuries : the emergence of a new trading center / David Mattingly and Martin Sterry The materiality of the Blue Quran : a physical and technological study / Cheryl Porter The Palermo Quran (AH 372/982-3 CE) and its historical context / Jeremy Johns. 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 The first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, despite the canonical status of its monuments and artworks in early Islamic art history. The Aghlabids and their Neighbors focuses new attention on this key dynasty. The essays in this volume, produced by an international group of specialists in history, art and architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty's interactions with neighbors in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and revealing the centrality of the dynasty and the region to global economic and political networks. Contributors: Lotfi Abdeljaouad, Glaire D. Anderson, Lucia Arcifa, Fabiola Ardizzone, Alessandra Bagnera, Jonathan M. Bloom, Lorenzo Bondioli, Chloé Capel, Patrice Cressier, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Abdelaziz Daoulatli, Claire Déléry, Ahmed El Bahi, Kaoutar Elbaljan, Ahmed Ettahiri, Abdelhamid Fenina, Elizabeth Fentress, Abdallah Fili, Mohamed Ghodhbane, Caroline Goodson, Soundes Gragueb Chatti, Khadija Hamdi, Renata Holod, Jeremy Johns, Tarek Kahlaoui, Hugh Kennedy, Sihem Lamine, Faouzi Mahfoudh, David Mattingly, Irene Montilla, Annliese Nef, Elena Pezzini, Nadège Picotin, Cheryl Porter, Dwight Reynolds, Viva Sacco, Elena Salinas, Martin Sterry. 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.