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"This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense urbanization, the appearance of new architectural forms (mosques, housing, hammams), the spread of Muslim social and cultural practices, the introduction of new crops and manufacturing techniques and the establishment of new trading links with sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and the Middle East. This concise and accessible book offers the first assessment of the archaeology of early Islamic North Africa (7th-9th centuries), drawing on a wide range of new evidence from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. It lays out current debates about its interpretation and suggests new ways of thinking about this crucial period in world history. Essential reading for those interested in understanding the impact of the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam on daily life, it will also challenge students of archaeology and history to think in new ways about North Africa, the earliest Islamic empires and states and the transition from the Roman to the medieval Mediterranean."--

Islam and politics --- Islam and politics. --- Politics and government. --- Religion. --- Africa, North --- Afrique du Nord --- North Africa.

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Archaeology --- Civilization, Western --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Romans --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization --- Philosophy --- Roman influences --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Antiquities, Roman --- Conferences - Meetings

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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.

Aghlabids. --- Art, North African. --- Architecture --- Africa, North --- History --- Civilization. --- Aghlabids --- Art, North African

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En las regiones a las dos orillas del Gaditanum fretum existía una concentración de ciudades única en el Imperio. La importancia y el significado de estas ciudades como centros de poder se mantienen -según el debate actual- sin interrupción hasta comienzos del siglo VIII, pero, ¿cómo se desarrolla a partir de entonces, después de estos años que hasta ahora siempre se habían considerado como punto de inflexión decisivo en la historia de estas regiones? Ya en 1985, Hugh N. Kennedy llamó la atención sobre el hecho de que la llamada «Madīna» debería considerarse consecuencia de transformaciones sociales y económicas, más que resultado de una «islamización» abrupta de la sociedad. Este volumen, en función de la nueva valoración del mundo de las ciudades de la Antigüedad tardía, quiere cuestionar sus consecuencias para la época de la temprana Edad Media, desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar y sobre una nueva base material. Durant l’Antiquité, il exista en péninsule Ibérique et dans le nord de l’Afrique une concentration d’agglomérations urbaines unique dans l’histoire de l’empire romain. Mais que se passe-t-il après l’arrivée des Arabes, considérée comme un point d’inflexion décisif dans l’histoire de ces régions ? Cet ouvrage, fort du renouveau des études portant sur le monde des cités durant l’Antiquité tardive, entend questionner les manifestations urbaines du haut Moyen Âge à travers une perspective interdisciplinaire.

History --- Península Ibérica --- Edad Media --- al-Andalus --- Antigüedad --- Carthago --- Ciudad --- Norte de África --- Theveste --- transformación