Las primeras mezquitas de al-Andalus a través de las fuentes árabes (92/711 – 170/785)

Capilla, Susana Calvo

doi:10.3989/alqantara.2007.v28.i1.34

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“…Lucien Golvin (1962) suggested that the Iberian origins of the patron may have led to its unusual character. It is also possible that a decorated façade was a function of the mosques’ small size and lack of a courtyard, for the somewhat-later Mosque of Bab Mardum in Toledo, built in 999–1000, is also a nine-bay mosque with an articulated façade and no courtyard (Calvo Capilla 2014, 672–76; Bloom 2020, 79–81). In any event, the Mosque of the Three Doors is the only one of the two dozen or so small mosques known from medieval Kairouan that preserves any notable architectural features, whether on the exterior or interior (Mahfoudh 2008).…”

Section: The Monumentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exterior vs. interior in early Maghribi mosques

Bloom

2022

Libyan Stud

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Early Islamic religious architecture in North Africa displays a marked change from earlier Classical and Christian buildings in their general neglect of exteriors in favour of interior (i.e., courtyard) façades. This feature may be due partly to the nature of Islamic worship, as it was common to virtually all early mosques, yet builders in the central and eastern lands of Islam soon began to adopt such exteriorizing features as domes, towers, and colourful decoration. Maghribi builders, however, maintained their preference for modest exteriors for many centuries, mostly focusing decoration on interior façades and spaces, and differentiating it from much Islamic architecture elsewhere.

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Section: The Monumentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exterior vs. interior in early Maghribi mosques

Bloom

2022

Libyan Stud

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“…The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba has been illustrated in many images before the spread of photography around 1850. This graphic legacy is very important in heritage research and is complemented by other historical or archaeological documentary sources, both Muslim [10] and Christian [11], and with the analysis of the architectural reality itself.…”

Section: Interior Views Of the Mosque-cathedral In The First Half Of The 19th Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba: Graphic Analysis of Interior Perspectives by Girault de Prangey around 1839

Gámiz-Gordo

Cantizani-Oliva

Gordo

2021

IJGI

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The work of Philibert Girault de Prangey, who was a draughtsman, pioneering photographer and an Islamic architecture scholar, has been the subject of recent exhibitions in his hometown (Langres, 2019), at the Metropolitan Museum (New York, 2019) and at the Musée d’Orsay (Paris, 2020). After visiting Andalusia between 1832 and 1833, Prangey completed the publication “Monuments arabes et moresques de Cordoue, Seville et Grenada in 1839”, based on his own drawings and measurements. For the first time, this research analyses his interior perspectives of the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba (Spain). The novel methodology is based on its comparison with a digital model derived from the point cloud captured by a 3D laser scanner. After locating the different viewpoints, the geometric precision and the elaboration process are analysed, taking into account historic images by various authors, other details published by Prangey and the architectural transformations of the building. In this way, the veracity and documentary interest of some beautiful perspectives of a monument inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO is valued.

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“…In light of the site's early Islamic phase, this feature requires further exploration. The earliest mosques in Iberia date to the eighth century, although these are known predominantly from written sources (Calvo Capilla 2007). The two eighth-century mosques in Iberia at present identified archaeologically correspond to the first phases of the Umayyad Great Mosque of Cordoba (AD 785–788; Ewert 1995) and the Great Mosque of Zaragoza (Hernández Vera 2004: 75).…”

Section: The Geomagnetic Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%