Revisiting al-Andalus : perspectives on the material culture of Islamic Iberia and beyond

Revisiting al-Andalus brings together a range of new approaches to the material culture of Islamic Iberia, highlighting especially new directions in Anglo-American scholarship in this field since the influential exhibition in 1992, Al-Andalus: the Art of

• List of Illustrations p. vii
• Contributors p. xv
• Introduction p. vii Glaire D. Anderson and Mariam Rosser-Owen
• Map p. xxxvi
• Part I Architecture and Urbanism in Ummayyad Cordoba
• Madinat al-Zahra': Transformation of a Caliphal City p. 3 Antonio Vallejo Triano
• The Dwellings of Madinat al-Zahra': a Methodological Approach p. 27 Antonio Almagro
• Villa (munya) Architecture in Umayyad Cordoba: Preliminary Considerations p. 53 Glaire D. Anderson
• Part II Reading the Regency
• Poems in Stone: the Iconography of 'Amirid Poetry, and its 'Petrification' on 'Amirid Marbles p. 83 Mariam Rosser-Owen
• Love in the Time of Fitna: 'Courtliness' and the 'Pamplona' Casket p. 99 Cynthia Robinson
• Part III Uncovering Almohad Iberia
• Evolution of the Andalusi Urban Landscape: from the Dispersed to the Saturated Medina p. 115 Julio Navarro and Pedro Jimenez
• Re-Examining Almohad Economies in South-western al-Andalus through Petrological Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics p. 143 Rebecca Bridgman
• Part IV Conquest and Colonisers: al-Andalus and Beyond in the Sixteenth Century
• The Andalusi House in Granada (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) p. 169 Antonio Orihuela
• Understanding Architectural Change at the Alhambra: Stratigraphic Analysis of the Western Gallery, Court of the Myrtles p. 193 Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas
• Sixteenth-Century Viceregal Ceramics and the Creation of a Mudejar Myth in New Spain p. 209 Maria Judith Feliciano
• Part V Myth and Modernity: Constructions of al-Andalus
• Owen Jones and the Alhambra Court at the Crystal Palace p. 227 Kathryn Ferry
• Visions of al-Andalus in Twentieth-Century Spanish Mosque Architecture p. 247 Jennifer Roberson
• Bibliography p. 271
• Index p. 291