The Aghlabids and their neighbors
Subtitle: art and material culture in ninth-century North Africa
By: edited by Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, Mariam Rosser-Owen ; with Sihem Lamine
Series: Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one, the Near and Middle East -- volume 122; Handbook of Oriental studies -- v. 122.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9789004355668; 9789004356047
Subjects: Aghlabids; History; Civilization; North African Art; Architecture
Description: 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 & 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 neighbours 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Seventeen contributions in English; twelve in French.
Table of contents: title: The Aghlabids and their neighbors : an introduction / Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-Owen; title: The origins of the Aghlabids / Hugh Kennedy; title: Comment les Aghlabides ont-ils gouvernes l'Ifriqiya? / Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi; title: Reinterpreting the Aghlabids' Sicilian policy (827-910) / Annliese Nef; title: Topographies of power in Aghlabid-era Kairouan / Caroline Goodson; title: L'atelier monetaire d'al-'Abbassiyya : du "vieux chateau" (al-Qasr al-Qadim) a la ville princiere aghlabide / Abdelhamid Fenina; title: Le changement du type monetaire des dinars aghlabides sous le regne de Ziyadat Allah III : evolution ou revolution artistique? / Mohamed Ghodhbane; title: Ziryab in the Aghlabid court / Dwight Reynolds; title: La Grande Mosquee de Kairouan : textes et contexte archeologique / Faouzi Mahfoudh; title: The marble panels in the mihrab of the Great Mosque of Kairouan / Jonathan M. Bloom; title: Fragments d'histoire du minbar de Kairouan / Nadege Picotin and Claire Delery; title: Les carreaux verts et jaunes "caches" du mihrab de la Grande Mosquee de Kairouan et analogie avec une selection d'objets kairouanais / Khadija Hamdi; title: La Grande Mosquee Zitouna : un authentique monument aghlabide (milieu du IXe siecle) / Abdelaziz Daoulatli; title: The Zaytuna : the mosque of a rebellious city / Sihem Lamine.; title: Le coufique des inscriptions monumentales et funeraires aghlabides / Lotfi Abdeljaouad; title: Les riba's aghlabides : un probleme d'identification / Ahmed El Bahi; title: La ceramique aghlabide de Raqqada et les productions de l'Orient islamique : parente et filiation / Soundes Gragueb Chatt; title: Aghlabid Palermo : written sources and archaeological evidence / Fabiola Ardizzone, Elena Pezzini, and Viva Sacco; title: Palermo in the ninth and early tenth century : ceramics as archaeological markers of cultural dynamics / Lucia Arcifa and Alessandra Bagnera; title: La ceramique des niveaux idrisside et Zenete de la Mosquee al-Qarawiyyin de Fes (IXe-Xe siecles) / Kaoutar El Baljani, Ahmed S. Ettahiri, and Abdallah Fili; title: Material culture interactions between al-Andalus and the Aghlabids / Elena Salinas and Irene Montill; title: Jerba of the ninth century : under Aghlabid control? / Renata Holod and Tarek Kahlaoui; title: Islamic Bari between the Aghlabids and the two empires / Lorenzo Bondioli; title: Nakur : un emirat rifain pro-omeyyade contemporain des Aghlabides / Patrice Cressier; title: Idris I and the Berbers / Elizabeth Fentress; title: Sijilmassa in the footsteps of the Aghlabids : the hypothesis of a ninth-century new royal city in the Tafilalt Plain (Morocco) / Chloe Capel; title: Zuwila and Fazzan in the seventh to tenth centuries : the emergence of a new trading center / David Mattingly and Martin Sterry; title: The materiality of the Blue Quran : a physical and technological study / Cheryl Porter; title: The Palermo Quran (AH 372/982-3 CE) and its historical context / Jeremy Johns.