Justicia, misericordia y cristianismo: una relectura de las inscripciones coránicas de la Mezquita de Córdoba en el siglo X

Capilla, Susana Calvo

doi:10.3989/alqantara.2010.v31.i1.111

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“…247-251). 180 Khoury 1996, 86-89;Calvo 2000Calvo , 2008Calvo , 2010a and by extension, of the Andalusi caliphate.181 In the mihrab itself, below the scallop-shaped dome, is the exhortation 'Believers, … cling one and all to the faith of God and let nothing divide you' (3:103): this can be said to 'issue a call for a unified caliphate' .182 Janina Safran also reads a political meaning in the epigraphy -'The inscriptional programme in its entirety … explicitly asserts the caliph's guidance and leadership of the community' -but she adds that an essential aspect of this role was as 'spiritual guide ' .183 These interpretations of the Cordoba inscriptions emphasise the caliph's position as God's earthly representative and thereby the divinelyordained head of the Muslim umma in al-Andalus. These statements have potentially global implications, seeming to lay claim to the Andalusi Umayyad caliphate's superiority over its competitors, the Abbasids and especially the Fatimids.…”

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Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus

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2022

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Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus

Rosser-Owen¹

2022

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“…There were three main aspects of influence. Firstly, the Andalusi Umayyads invoked the authority of the "Well Guided" caliphs and of their eastern and Andalusi ancestors to establish their claim For further details on the Quranic inscriptions see the following articles: (Calvo Capilla 2001;Calvo Capilla 2010a), as well as a forthcoming article about the inscriptions in the axial nave. Architectural aspects are in (Calvo Capilla 2008).…”

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“…My research on the formal characteristics and the social, religious, and political meaning of the congregational and small mosques of al-Andalus were developed in my doctoral thesis (2001) published in (Calvo Capilla 2014a). For further details on the Quranic inscriptions see the following articles: (Calvo Capilla 2001;Calvo Capilla 2010a), as well as a forthcoming article about the inscriptions in the axial nave. Architectural aspects are in (Calvo Capilla 2008).…”

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The Visual Construction of the Umayyad Caliphate in Al-Andalus through the Great Mosque of Cordoba

Capilla

2018

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My first exposure to the epigraphic program of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, published in 2001, came from reading an article on the ideological meaning of the decoration and the Quranic citations inscribed in al-Ḥakam II’s addition to the building. In that article, I concluded that the Quranic verses found in the mosque were chosen not only for being a universal proclamation of divine power and praise for the Umayyad dynasty, as proposed by Nuha Khoury in 1996, but also because they clearly fitted in with the particular Andalusi, or rather Cordoban, religious, cultural, and political context in the first half of the 10th century. Most of the inscriptions had been read in the 19th century by Amador de los Ríos, but some of them remained uninterpreted. Given that they were an essential part of the ideological message, it seemed appropriate to revisit the critical reading of the epigraphic program and determine its full meaning. Later, I discussed other architectural aspects of the Great Mosque in which the links to the Andalusi and the eastern Umayyad traditions are a key aspect in understanding why these forms were chosen. Damascus, the eastern Umayyad capital, and to a lesser extent Medina and the Abbasid capitals, became the model for the caliphs of Cordoba. This article proposes to revisit the main architectural and decorative features of the caliphal enlargements of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in order to reflect on the meaning and forms of its epigraphic program.

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“…Así, la tradición islámica sitúa la consolidación de la práctica litúrgica de la oración justo después del cambio de quibla o de la dirección del rezo. Los primeros creyentes no rezaban hacia La Meca, según el propio Corán (2:142-145), sino hacia un lugar identificado como Jerusalén por la tradición profética 68 . La mudanza de la dirección hacia el sur se produjo, según los exégetas, aún en vida de Muhammad; pero parece más lógico pensar que fue generaciones después, al tiempo que se ponía por escrito el Corán 69 .…”

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Los inicios de la arquitectura religiosa en al-Andalus y su contexto islámico

Capilla

2020

Stud. hist., H.ª mediev.

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This article reflects on what we know today about religious spaces during the so-called «Early Islam». In the context of the latest studies about this period and its cultural and religious reality, there are some basic questions worth asking, though still with no sure answer. Likewise, we must review the paradigms used so far to approach their analysis, assuming what historians have defined as a long phase of transition. Faced with the scarcity and ambiguity of contemporary written sources, the monuments and material remains preserved become the main and most reliable historical documents. The lack of 30 los inicios de la arquitectura religiosa en al-andalus y su contexto islámico susana calvo capilla Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca / Stud. hist., H.ª mediev., 38(1), 2020, pp. 29-57 mentions in the texts does not mean those works do not exist or that we could not make an approximation of the reasons behind their creation. Similarly, the absence of material support for certain information in the stories is highly significant, especially if that absence is generalized, geographically speaking. Therefore, it is worth asking how and where did the first Islamized communities pray both in the Mediterranean and in al-Andalus? Do we know what we are looking for when we speak of the first masāŷid or places of prostration?

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Justicia, misericordia y cristianismo: una relectura de las inscripciones coránicas de la Mezquita de Córdoba en el siglo X

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Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus

Articulating the <i>Ḥijāba</i>: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus

The Visual Construction of the Umayyad Caliphate in Al-Andalus through the Great Mosque of Cordoba

Los inicios de la arquitectura religiosa en al-Andalus y su contexto islámico

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