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The Dome of the Rock is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. When was it built? What meanings was it meant to convey to viewers at the time of its construction? These are questions that have preoccupied historians of Islamic art and architecture, and numerous interpretations of the Dome of the Rock have been proposed. Marcus Milwright returns to one of the most important pieces of evidence: the mosaic inscriptions running around the two faces of the octagonal arcade. His detailed examination of the physical characteristics, morphology and content of these inscriptions provides new evidence about the chronology the building and the iconography of the Dome of the Rock.

Islamic inscriptions --- Architecture, Umayyad --- Art, Umayyad --- Inscriptions islamiques --- Architecture omeyyade --- Art omeyyade --- Qubbat al-Sakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Islamic mosaics. --- Islamic mosaics --- Architecture, Umayyad. --- Art, Umayyad. --- Islamic inscriptions. --- Inschrift. --- Mosaik. --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Middle East --- Felsendom Jerusalem. --- Jérusalem - Ḥaram al-Sharīf. --- Felsendom Jerusalem --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem). --- Jérusalem --- Ḥaram al-Sharīf. --- Inschrift --- Mosaik --- Umayyad art --- Umayyad architecture --- Mosaics, Islamic --- Muslim mosaics --- Mosaics --- Inscriptions, Islamic --- Muslim inscriptions --- Inscriptions --- Jerusalem. --- Dome of the Rock (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Moschea di Omar (Jerusalem) --- Cupola della Roccia (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Mosque of Omar (Jerusalem) --- Ṣakhrah al-Musharrafah (Jerusalem) --- כיפת הסלע (מסגד : ירושלים) --- قبة الصخرة (مسجد : القدس) --- قبة الصخره --- al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds al-ʻArabīyah --- Bayt al-Maqdis --- Erusaghēm --- Gerusalemme --- Ierousalēm --- Ierusalim --- ʻIriyat Yerushalayim --- Israel --- Jerusalem Arab Municipality --- Jerusalem --- Jerusalén --- Jeruzalem --- Jeruzsálem --- Kouds --- Kuds --- Quds --- Ūrushalīm --- Yerushalayim --- Jérusalem - Ḥaram al-Sharīf.

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The Most Noble of People presents a nuanced look at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations among different religious and ethnic groups, and between men and women, Jessica A. Coope considers the ways in which personal and cultural identity in al-Andalus could be alternately fluid and contentious. The opening chapters define Arab and Muslim identity as those categories were understood in Muslim Spain, highlighting the unique aspects of this society as well as its similarities with other parts of the medieval Islamic world. The book goes on to discuss what it meant to be a Jew or Christian in Spain under Islamic rule, and the degree to which non-Muslims were full participants in society. Following this is a consideration of gender identity as defined by Islamic law and by less normative sources like literature and mystical texts. It concludes by focusing on internal rebellions against the government of Muslim Spain, particularly the conflicts between Muslims who were ethnically Arab and those who were Berber or native Iberian, pointing to the limits of Muslim solidarity. Drawn from an unusually broad array of sources—including legal texts, religious polemic, chronicles, mystical texts, prose literature, and poetry, in both Arabic and Latin—many of Coope's illustrations of life in al-Andalus also reflect something of the larger medieval world. Further, some key questions about gender, ethnicity, and religious identity that concerned people in Muslim Spain—for example, women's status under Islamic law, or what it means to be a Muslim in different contexts and societies around the world—remain relevant today --

Muslims --- History. --- Ethnic identity. --- Social conditions. --- Umayyad dynasty. --- Spain --- History --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Islam

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From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or' 740s, h'as proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria.

Arabic poetry --- Mural painting and decoration, Umayyad --- Umayyad mural painting and decoration --- History and criticism --- Foreign influences. --- Qusayr ʻAmrah (Jordan : Dwelling) --- History and criticism. --- Arabic poetry - 622-750 - History and criticism. --- abbasid. --- abd al malik. --- al azraq. --- al buldn. --- alois musil. --- amir. --- ancient art. --- apodyterium. --- arab. --- arabic poetry. --- arabic. --- architecture. --- art history. --- bath house. --- baths. --- captive woman. --- court life. --- dancing girls. --- decorative arts. --- desert. --- dynasty. --- femininity. --- frescoes. --- gender. --- hunt. --- hunting lodge. --- iconography. --- iran. --- islam. --- jordan. --- khusraw. --- late antiquity. --- middle east. --- monument. --- murals. --- musicians. --- muslim. --- mythology. --- negus. --- nonfiction. --- ode. --- persia. --- prince. --- princess. --- qusayr amra. --- roderic. --- royal court. --- self fashioning. --- shaykh musa. --- syria. --- umayyad. --- women. --- Qusayr Amrah (Jordan : Dwelling)

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In Early Sunnī Historiography , Tobias Andersson presents the first full-length study of the earliest Islamic chronological history extant: the Tārīkh ( Chronicle ) of the Basran ḥadīth scholar and historian Khalīfa born Khayyāṭ al-ʿUṣfurī (d. 240/854). The book examines how Khalīfa worked as a historian in terms of his social and intellectual context, selection of sources, methods of compilation, arrangement of material and narration of key themes in comparison to the wider historiographical tradition. It shows how Khalīfa’s affiliation with the early Sunnī ḥadīth scholars of Basra is reflected in his methods and concerns throughout the Tārīkh , while also highlighting similarities to other histories compiled by ḥadīth scholars of the third/ninth century.

ʻUṣfūrī, Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ, --- Umayyad dynasty --- History --- Islamic Empire --- Omayyad dynasty --- Omeyyades (dynastie). --- בית אומיה --- بنو أموية --- היסטוריה --- التاريخ --- האימפריה האסלאמית --- الإمبراطوريّة الإسلامية --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- Omeyyades --- الإمبراطورية الإسلامية --- Islam Empire

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La mission archéologique syro-française de Qinnasrin a mené ses travaux de 2008 à 2010 sur le site d'al-'Iss (Syrie du Nord, région d'Alep), dans l'ensemble du bourg et dans ses environs immédiats, grâce aux financements de la Commission des fouilles du ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères, de la Fondation Max van Berchem, du CNRS et de la Direction générale des Antiquités et Musées de Syrie. Attestée depuis la fin du IIIe millénaire avant notre ère, Qinnasrin est un nœud routier et militaire important, qui domine une plaine fertile, aux confins de la steppe et des zones d'agriculture irriguée. Renommée Chalcis par les Grecs, elle est, à l'époque romaine, le siège d'une royauté et frappe monnaie. Elle joue un rôle essentiel dans le système de fortification de la Syrie du Nord mis en place par Justinien face aux Perses, puis lors de la conquête de la Syrie du Nord par les armées de l'islam. Étroitement liée à Alep, elle décline, à son profit, à partir du milieu du xe siècle et tombe dans l'oubli vers le XIVe siècle. Cet ouvrage dresse un état des lieux et une synthèse des sources textuelles et archéologiques. Il présente la documentation constituée par les prospections pédestre et géophysique, les premières fouilles archéologiques jamais menées sur le site, l'inventaire des blocs architecturaux et la collecte de matériel. Plusieurs découvertes permettent de rendre compte de l'importance acquise par la ville, tant aux périodes les plus anciennes qu'aux époques grecque, romaine ou islamique. Pour la première fois, un scénario de l'évolution morphologique de la ville et de ses transformations est proposé. Ce second volume de la série consacrée à Qinnasrin livre un portrait inédit d'un site remarquable et largement méconnu.

Fouilles archéologiques --- Chalcis ad Belum (ville ancienne) --- Excavations (Archeology) --- Architecture, Ancient --- Syria --- Antiquities --- Archaeology --- archéologie --- épigraphie --- morphologie urbaine --- Syrie du Nord --- âge du Bronze --- période hellénistique --- Empire romain --- Antiquité tardive --- période omeyyade --- période abbasside --- Moyen Âge --- églises d’Orient --- conquête musulmane --- fortification --- céramique --- sigillée --- archaeology --- epigraphy --- urban morphology --- Northern Syria --- Bronze Age --- hellenistic period --- roman empire --- Late Antiquity --- umayyad period --- abbasid period --- Middle Age --- oriental churches --- muslim conquest --- pottery --- sigillata --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Antiquité tardive. --- Qinnasrīn (Extinct city) --- Antiquities.