The contiguity between churches and mosques in early Islamic Bilād al-Shām

Guidetti, Mattia

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“…Thus, he identifies mosques built within the enclosure of already existing churches, such as Damascus; mosques close to churches but independent from them -for instance, Aleppo; and mosques physically connected to churches or basilicas, such as al-Bakhrā' or Al-Rusā . fa (Guidetti 2013(Guidetti , 2016. All these diverse cases show contacts between Muslim and Christian communities, where "Muslims found an accommodation for their worships within Christian buildings" (Guidetti 2013, p. 251).…”

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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: The Interaction With Previous Religious Architecture: Myths ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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

González-Gutiérrez

2023

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Sacred Spaces in Early Islam

Guidetti¹

2017

A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture

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Arab Migration During Early Islam: The Seventh to Eighth Century AD from an Archaeological Perspective

Nol

2023

Open Archaeology

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The topic of Arab migration during the medieval period has occupied many modern historians. The evidence for migration in chronicles and geographies, however, is quite thin. This article looks at these texts as well as at contemporary “archaeological texts” (inscriptions and papyri documents) and archaeology. Each of these sources provides different information under different limitations which sometimes correlates with another. One main focus of the article is the ability of archaeology to answer – alone – the question about Arab migration. For that purpose, two archaeological models are proposed. One model highlights the link between the material culture of two regions (origin and destination) in two sequent times and its evolvement in the destination. The other model points to continuous links between origin and destination and the evolvement of material culture in the origin. The models are compared to a number of case studies from the early Islamic period (seventh to tenth century AD) in the Levant, Spain, and additional regions. The case studies present innovations which might reflect migrants: irrigation methods, specific forms of architecture, production techniques of portable artifacts, and evidence for a new confession – Islam. While the archaeological records of early Islam are often too limited to answer most of the models’ criteria, two case studies seem promising: soapstone pots/bowls and early Muslim burials. Both cases imply the migration of people from the Arabian Peninsula elsewhere in the eighth or even the seventh century.

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The contiguity between churches and mosques in early Islamic Bilād al-Shām

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

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

Sacred Spaces in Early Islam

Arab Migration During Early Islam: The Seventh to Eighth Century AD from an Archaeological Perspective

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