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

Capilla, Susana Calvo

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“…Therefore, approaching pre-Umayyad mosques requires turning to written chronicles that transmit accounts about the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, all written afterwards and mainly in the Umayyad period. This work has been extensively done by Calvo (2007Calvo ( , 2020. She states that these sources often construct foundational myths to explain the appearance of the earliest mosques with a heavy symbolic load that covers or distorts the historical reality.…”

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Religious Buildings in Early al-Andalus: Origins, Consolidation and Prevalence in Urban Contexts

González-Gutiérrez

2023

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The arrival of Islam to the Iberian Peninsula at the beginning of the 8th c. brought important changes to the urbanism of cities which contributed to turn the previous late-antique realities into medieval Islamic settlements. Among all the transformations that took place, the introduction of mosques and the reconfiguration of cities’ religioscapes is one of the most relevant. The processes through which the earliest mosques were first inserted in urban landscapes in al-Andalus are unclear, since so far there are no remains that can be undoubtedly dated before the Umayyad period. From that moment on, and alongside the Umayyad organization of the Andalusi state, the founding of mosques becomes clearer and traceable, and their urban, religious and political roles more evident. This contribution seeks to identify how and why mosques appeared in the Iberian Peninsula, how they (re)configured religious spaces in cities, and how they contributed to consolidate their significance through specific written and architectural narratives. This topic will be explored also seeking for parallels and connections in the Bilād al-Shām region.

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Section: Written Accounts About the Earliest Andalusi Mosques And The...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious Buildings in Early al-Andalus: Origins, Consolidation and Prevalence in Urban Contexts

González-Gutiérrez

2023

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Stratigraphy Matters: Questioning the (Re)Sacralisation of Religious Spaces from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula

Utrero Agudo

2023

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In recent decades, archaeological and written records have been used in combination to improve our understanding of Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispanic architectural culture (5th–10th c.). Within this renewed research context, the rebuilding of Late Antique churches and the reuse of earlier materials in both Early Medieval Christian and Islamic religious buildings; the transformation of Late Antique churches into early Islamic mosques in al-Andalus; and the rebuilding of other churches by the Christians themselves, both in al-Andalus and in the northern Iberian plateau, from the late 8th century onwards, have often been used to thread narratives concerning tradition, continuity, and re-sacralisation of earlier religious architectural spaces and, through this, religious change in the middle ages. However, the application of modern archaeological methodology reveals that these processes need to be qualified, for the stratigraphic gaps between building phases make them sometimes hard to interpret. By analysing some examples of Hispanic religious sites, this paper reflects on the many concepts related to sacralisation, explains the way archaeology is able to trace the sacralisation processes, and intends thus to highlight the complexity of these phenomena.

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

Cited by 2 publications

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Religious Buildings in Early al-Andalus: Origins, Consolidation and Prevalence in Urban Contexts

Religious Buildings in Early al-Andalus: Origins, Consolidation and Prevalence in Urban Contexts

Stratigraphy Matters: Questioning the (Re)Sacralisation of Religious Spaces from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula

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