Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Maps
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Aghlabid Timeline
List of Aghlabid Rulers
Maps

1 The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors: An Introduction
 Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-Owen

Part 1: State-building
2 The Origins of the Aghlabids
 Hugh Kennedy
3 Comment les Aghlabides ont-ils gouverné l’Ifriqiya ?
 Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi
4 Reinterpreting the Aghlabids’ Sicilian Policy (827–910)
 Annliese Nef
5 Topographies of Power in Aghlabid-Era Kairouan
 Caroline Goodson
6 L’atelier monétaire d’al-ʿAbbassiyya: du « vieux château » (al-Qasr al-Qadim) à la ville princière aghlabide
 Abdelhamid Fenina
7 Le changement du type monétaire des dinars aghlabides sous le règne de Ziyadat Allah III : évolution ou révolution artistique?
 Mohamed Ghodhbane
8 Ziryab in the Aghlabid Court
 Dwight Reynolds

Part 2: Monuments: The Physical Construction of Power
9 La Grande Mosquée de Kairouan : textes et contexte archéologique
 Faouzi Mahfoudh
10 The Marble Panels in the Mihrab of the Great Mosque of Kairouan
 Jonathan M. Bloom
11 Fragments d’histoire du minbar de Kairouan
 Nadège Picotin and Claire Déléry
12 Les carreaux verts et jaunes « cachés » du mihrab de la Grande Mosquée de Kairouan et analogie avec une sélection d’objets kairouanais
 Khadija Hamdi
13 La Grande Mosquée Zitouna : un authentique monument aghlabide (milieu du IXe siècle)
 Abdelaziz Daoulatli
14 The Zaytuna: The Mosque of a Rebellious City
 Sihem Lamine
15 Le coufique des inscriptions monumentales et funéraires aghlabides
 Lotfi Abdeljaouad
16 Les ribāṭs aghlabides : un problème d’identification
 Ahmed El Bahi

Part 3: Ceramics: Morphology and Mobility
17 La céramique aghlabide de Raqqada et les productions de l’Orient islamique : parenté et filiation
 Soundes Gragueb Chatti
18 Aghlabid Palermo: Written Sources and Archaeological Evidence
 Fabiola Ardizzone †, Elena Pezzini, and Viva Sacco
19 Palermo in the Ninth and Early Tenth Century: Ceramics as Archaeological Markers of Cultural Dynamics
 Lucia Arcifa and Alessandra Bagnera
20 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 Fili
21 Material Culture Interactions between al-Andalus and the Aghlabids
 Elena Salinas and Irene Montilla

Part 4: Neighbors: North Africa and the Central Mediterranean in the Ninth Century
22 Jerba of the Ninth Century: Under Aghlabid Control?
 Renata Holod and Tarek Kahlaoui
23 Islamic Bari between the Aghlabids and the Two Empires
 Lorenzo Bondioli
24 Nakur: un émirat rifain pro-omeyyade contemporain des Aghlabides
 Patrice Cressier
25 Idris I and the Berbers
 Elizabeth Fentress
26 Sijilmassa in the Footsteps of the Aghlabids: The Hypothesis of a Ninth-Century New Royal City in the Tafilalt Plain (Morocco)
 Chloé Capel
27 Zuwila and Fazzan in the Seventh to Tenth Centuries: The Emergence of a New Trading Center
 David Mattingly and Martin Sterry

Part 5: Legacy
28 The Materiality of the Blue Quran: A Physical and Technological Study
 Cheryl Porter
29 The Palermo Quran (AH 372/982–3 CE) and its Historical Context
 Jeremy Johns

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

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).

Reviews

"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)