Aghlabids and their Neighbors

Glaire D. Anderson, PhD (2005), MIT, is Associate Professor of Islamic Art History at UNC-Chapel Hill. Specializing in the arts of al-Andalus and the caliphal era, she is author of The Islamic villa in early medieval Iberia(Ashgate, 2013).Corisande Fenwick, PhD (2013), Stanford University, is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCL. She is the author of many articles on North African archaeology and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology.Mariam Rosser-Owen, PhD (2002), University of Oxford, is Curator of Arab World collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum. She has published many articles on the arts of the Islamic West, and is author of Islamic Arts from Spain (V&A Publishing, 2010).

"This collection, as a statement on the state of the field as well as what remains to be discovered, will be a vital resource and a first stop for anyone undertaking future study of the third/ninth and fourth/tenth-century regions of the western Mediterranean and northern Africa." - Sarah Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico, in: Al-Masāq 30/3 (2018) "As an elegant (collective) status quaestionis, on a much-neglected field, and a stimulus to further work, it is hard to imagine a more welcome book." - Andrew Merills, University of Leicester, in: Medieval Archaeology 62/2 (2018) "The Aghlabids and their Neighbors is a long overdue contribution to the study of Islam and North African history. The genuinely interdisciplinary approach offers numerous possibilities for further research, not least because of the relatively small number of primary texts for this region, and the difficulty of accessing many of the manuscripts that do exist. The contributors must be praised for their skill in presenting complicated and specialized material in a manner that is both accessible and relevant to the non-initiate of their field. So too should the editors be commended for the volume's internal consistency (no small feat in a collection of this size and range) and its coherent and helpful structure." - Antonia Bosanquet, Hamburg University, in: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 96/1 (2019) "The weighty edited volume of 29 contributors, many drawn from an international workshop held in 2014, is an extremely welcome addition to the rather sparse array of scholarship on the history, art, architecture and material culture of early Islamic North Africa. Compiled and edited by Mariam Rosser-Owen, Corisande Fenwick and Glaire Anderson, a trio of scholars, known for their multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual and often revisionist endeavours in the field, it has a refreshing unapologetic Maghribi perspective which encourages the reader to see North Africans as agents in the production of their own early Islamic material culture, rather than as somewhat passive imitators of what Muslims in the Islamic East or al-Andalus were doing better." - Amira K. Bennison, University of Cambridge in: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI N° 1-2 (2019)

• AcknowledgmentsList of MapsList of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsAghlabid TimelineList of Aghlabid RulersMaps1 The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors: An IntroductionGlaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-OwenPart 1: State-building2 The Origins of the AghlabidsHugh Kennedy3 Comment les Aghlabides ont-ils gouverné l’Ifriqiya ?Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi4 Reinterpreting the Aghlabids’ Sicilian Policy (827–910)Annliese Nef5 Topographies of Power in Aghlabid-Era KairouanCaroline Goodson6 L’atelier monétaire d’al-ʿAbbassiyya: du « vieux château » (al-Qasr al-Qadim) à la ville princière aghlabideAbdelhamid Fenina7 Le changement du type monétaire des dinars aghlabides sous le règne de Ziyadat Allah III : évolution ou révolution artistique?Mohamed Ghodhbane8 Ziryab in the Aghlabid CourtDwight ReynoldsPart 2: Monuments: The Physical Construction of Power9 La Grande Mosquée de Kairouan : textes et contexte archéologiqueFaouzi Mahfoudh 10 The Marble Panels in the Mihrab of the Great Mosque of KairouanJonathan M. Bloom11 Fragments d’histoire du minbar de KairouanNadège Picotin and Claire Déléry12 Les carreaux verts et jaunes « cachés » du mihrab de la Grande Mosquée de Kairouan et analogie avec une sélection d’objets kairouanaisKhadija Hamdi13 La Grande Mosquée Zitouna : un authentique monument aghlabide (milieu du IXe siècle)Abdelaziz Daoulatli14 The Zaytuna: The Mosque of a Rebellious CitySihem Lamine15 Le coufique des inscriptions monumentales et funéraires aghlabidesLotfi Abdeljaouad16 Les ribāṭs aghlabides : un problème d’identificationAhmed El BahiPart 3: Ceramics: Morphology and Mobility17 La céramique aghlabide de Raqqada et les productions de l’Orient islamique : parenté et filiationSoundes Gragueb Chatti18 Aghlabid Palermo: Written Sources and Archaeological EvidenceFabiola Ardizzone †, Elena Pezzini, and Viva Sacco19 Palermo in the Ninth and Early Tenth Century: Ceramics as Archaeological Markers of Cultural DynamicsLucia Arcifa and Alessandra Bagnera20 La céramique des niveaux idrisside et zénète de la Mosquée al-Qarawiyyin de Fès (IXe-Xe siècles)Kaoutar El Baljani, Ahmed S. Ettahiri, and Abdallah Fili21 Material Culture Interactions between al-Andalus and the AghlabidsElena Salinas and Irene MontillaPart 4: Neighbors: North Africa and the Central Mediterranean in the Ninth Century22 Jerba of the Ninth Century: Under Aghlabid Control?Renata Holod and Tarek Kahlaoui23 Islamic Bari between the Aghlabids and the Two EmpiresLorenzo Bondioli24 Nakur: un émirat rifain pro-omeyyade contemporain des AghlabidesPatrice Cressier25 Idris I and the BerbersElizabeth Fentress26 Sijilmassa in the Footsteps of the Aghlabids: The Hypothesis of a Ninth-Century New Royal City in the Tafilalt Plain (Morocco)Chloé Capel27 Zuwila and Fazzan in the Seventh to Tenth Centuries: The Emergence of a New Trading CenterDavid Mattingly and Martin SterryPart 5: Legacy28 The Materiality of the Blue Quran: A Physical and Technological StudyCheryl Porter29 The Palermo Quran (AH 372/982–3 CE) and its Historical ContextJeremy JohnsBibliographyIndex