Well-Ordered Growth: Meanings and Aesthetics of the Almohad Mosque of Seville

Jessica Renee Streit

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Page Range:: 298–325

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407541_016

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This paper interprets the ornamental program of the Almohad Great Mosque of Seville, completed between 1172 and 1198 CE. The mosque’s extant minaret and fragmentary archaeological material recovered from its prayer hall suggest that it was a relatively ornate building comparted to previous Almohad Friday mosques, such as the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh (c. 1158 CE), featuring a more overt depiction of vegetal forms and a more systematized ornamental program. In partial explanation of these characteristics, this study argues they share key thematic features with the written works of two of the building’s contemporaries: Abū Bakr Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Ṭufayl al-Qaysī (d. 1185) and Abū-l-Walīd Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Rušd, al-Ḥafīd (d. 1198). Read side-by-side, the texts and mosque evidence a preoccupation with the observation of a divinely-ordered created world, and they represent continued efforts of the Almohad elite to wrestle with the theological issue of how the divine might manifest in the mundane.

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'His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror'

Andalusi, Judaeo-Arabic, and Other Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Ross Brann

丛编： Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies, 卷： 4

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出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 17 Mar 2020

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