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A companion to late antique and medieval Islamic Cordoba : capital of Roman Baetica and Caliphate of al-Andalus
- Title
- A companion to late antique and medieval Islamic Cordoba : capital of Roman Baetica and Caliphate of al-Andalus / edited by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Antonio Monterroso-Checa.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
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- Description
- xx, 505 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba covers the history and culture of Roman, late antique, Visigoth and al-Andalus Cordoba in nineteen contributions, from the foundation of the city in the 169/168 B.C. by the praetor Marcus Claudius Marcellus, to the end of the Muslim period in 1236, when the city fell into the hands of Ferdinand III the Saint, King of Castile. Making use of archaeological data and historical sources, combined with the latest research on the various fields under study, its authors give a compelling account of Cordoba's most important archaeological, urban, political, legal, social, cultural and religious facets throughout the most exciting fifteen centuries of the city"--
- Series Statement
- Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 195
- Uniform Title
- Islamic history and civilization ; v. 195.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- How an earthquake shaped the foundations of a new city : Cordoba from the 3rd to the 5th century AD / Carlos Márquez and Antonio Monterroso-Checa -- Rich Corduba on the quiet Baetis : politics, society, and economy in a Hispanic provincial capital between the 3rd and 5th centuries / Sabine Panzram -- Corduba and the Byzantine expansion in the western Mediterranean / Jaime Vizcaíno-Sánchez -- The role of culture in a world in transition : Iberia between the Romans and the Arabs / Esther Sánchez-Medina -- Christianity : the architecture of a new faith (4th-7th Century) / María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo and Alejandro Villa del Castillo -- The city in new hands / Xavier Ballestín-Navarro -- Qurṭuba in Arabic written sources (8th-13th Century) / Alejandro García-Sanjuán -- A city for Muslim power : topography, spaces, and administration / Mohamed Meouak -- The medina : The old city of Cordoba / Alberto León Muñoz and Alberto Javier Montejo Córdoba -- The suburbs of the greatest city in the West / Juan Francisco Murillo Redondo and María Teresa Casal-García -- The Christian and Islamic population of Cercadilla, Cordoba : 7th-12th century / Ma del Camino Fuertes Santos and Rafael Hidalgo Prieto -- The ceremonial ensemble of the Umayyad Caliphate at Madīnat Al-Zahrāʼ / Antonio Vallejo-Triano -- When the stones speak : believing, living, and dying in Qurṭuba. The Arabic epigraphy / María Antonia Martínez-Núñez -- The Jews of Cordoba / José Martínez Delgado -- The Arabicized Christians in Cordoba : social context and literary production / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala -- Faiths in contact : Santa Clara, an overlapping building through centuries / José Ignacio Murillo-Fragero -- Literature in Qurṭuba / Pedro Buendía -- Cordoba as a scientific center / Julio Samsó -- Fine arts in Qurṭuba / José Miguel Puerta Vílchez.
- ISBN
- 9789004524149
- 9004524142
- 9789004524156 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022055686
- OCLC
- on1357019902
- 1357019902
- SCSB-14687918
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries