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The Formative Period (650–900 CE)
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This chapter harnesses scant archaeological and textual evidence from 700-900 CE to discuss palatial architecture in North Africa, Western Maghreb, and the Iberian Peninsula. As Islamic rulers fight to establish hegemony in each region, their decisions where to live and how to design their palaces reflect this struggle. The cities of Raqqāda, Tāhart, Córdoba, and Badajoz each stage a unique encounter between local, pre-Islamic traditions and the architectural typologies and concepts of space imported from the Umayyad caliphate in Levant and later the Abbasid caliphate in Iraq. The palaces at these sites often feature combinations of elements from disparate traditions (e.g., the munya of cAbd ar-Raḥmān I) or altogether independent innovations (e.g. cubit of ar-Raššaš).
Title: The Formative Period (650–900 CE)
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This chapter harnesses scant archaeological and textual evidence from 700-900 CE to discuss palatial architecture in North Africa, Western Maghreb, and the Iberian Peninsula.
As Islamic rulers fight to establish hegemony in each region, their decisions where to live and how to design their palaces reflect this struggle.
The cities of Raqqāda, Tāhart, Córdoba, and Badajoz each stage a unique encounter between local, pre-Islamic traditions and the architectural typologies and concepts of space imported from the Umayyad caliphate in Levant and later the Abbasid caliphate in Iraq.
The palaces at these sites often feature combinations of elements from disparate traditions (e.
g.
, the munya of cAbd ar-Raḥmān I) or altogether independent innovations (e.
g.
cubit of ar-Raššaš).
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