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The Architecture of the Frontier (Part 2) (opens the original)
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In Part 1, we traced the Andalusi frontier from its origins in early Islamic border warfare through to the ribat of Guardamar, an unfortified complex of prayer cells and mosques that had nothing in common with the fortified ribats the term usually describes. We also looked at the alcazabas of Málaga and Almería, urban fortress-palaces that show how far frontier architecture could travel from the ribat’s original devotional model.Part 2 crosses the Mediterranean to see that original model in its
The Architecture of the Frontier (opens the original)
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The borderlands of medieval Islamic Spain produced a distinctive architecture, part fortress, part monastery, part statement of faith, one that perhaps shaped Andalusi identity as much as the palaces of Córdoba or Granada.I. The Coastline at Guardamar<source typ
How To Dress In Al-Andalus (opens the original)
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In 822 a musician arrived in Córdoba from Baghdad and made a huge impact on the way the city dressed. Ziryab, born Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Nafi, arrived at the court of Abd al-Rahman II with a monthly salary of 200 gold dinars and within years had transformed how the Cordoban elite understood clothing, grooming, and the relationship between dress and time. Before him, according to Al-Maqqari, drawing on earlier Andalusi chronicles, men and women of the court wore their hair long, parted in the midd
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