Histoire des musulmans d'Espagne jusqu'à la conquête de l'Andalousie par les almoravides

Contiene : v.1. (Livre I, livre II) -- v.2. (Livre II, suite, livre III) -- v.3. (Livre IV, appendices, index)Bibliogr.: p. [243]-281 (v.3)Copia digital : Diputación de Málaga. Biblioteca Canovas del Castillo, 201

Rāšid et les Idrissides: l’histoire “originelle” du Maroc entre marginalisation et glorification

The dynasty of Idrisids is considered as the first of Morocco’s Islamic history. Nevertheless only the two figures of Idrīs I and Idrīs II are known by the general public and take up the specialists’ attentions. The character of Rāšid is completely left apart by the researchers. And yet he is the one who led future Idrīs I from Mecca to Volubilis, the one who succeeded him as head of the state and who had governed the country for twelve years (three times longer than Idrīs), and finally the one who minted coins with his name. I recently deal with this question in another article: the coins are from Volubilis, but also from the capital of the Rustumides, Tāhirt, that Rāšid certainly conquered. Moreover, he could have founded Fez for the first coins are minted in the city during his regency. All of this leads us to believe that this mysterious figure has played an important role and deserves a bigger place in the history books than he has today.<br><br>[fr] Si les Idrissides sont aujourd’hui considérés comme la dynastie fondatrice de l’histoire musulmane du Maroc, seules les deux figures d’Idrīs I et d’Idrīs II monopolisent l’attention du grand public marocain (voire des spécialistes également). La figure de Rāšid est totalement marginalisée. Pourtant, c’est ce dernier qui conduisit le futur Idris I jusqu’à Volubilis (depuis La Mecque en passant notamment par l’Egypte), qui lui succéda au pouvoir pour régner presque trois fois plus longtemps que lui (environ douze années), qui frappa des monnaies à son nom (ainsi que l’a démontré une récente publication scientifique) aussi bien dans la capitale des Rustumides Tāhirt qu’il devait donc avoir temporairement conquise que dans la sienne Volubilis. La logique historique convainc mème du fait qu’il ait fondé Fès, vu que les plus anciennes monnaies (anonymes) frappées dans cette ville le furent sous son règne/régence… Autant de points qui méritent donc que l’on s’intéresse de plus près à cette figure mystérieuse qui pourrait bel et bien avoir eu un rôle de loin plus important que celui auquel l’a “cantonn” l’historiographie traditionnelle

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

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-H. akam 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