Marrakesh and the mountains : landscape, urban planning, and identity in the medieval Maghrib. / txt
Abbey Stockstill.
- xv, 150 pages : illustrations, maps ; plans ; 27 cm. book
- Buildings, landscapes, and societies series 14 .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index.
List of illustrations ix -- Acknowledgments xiii -- A note on translation, transliteration and dynastic terminology xv -- Introduction 1 -- Chapter 1 Almoravid Foundations 24 -- Chapter 2 Almohad renovation 57 -- Chapter 3 Almohad Urbanism Elsewhere : Seville and Rabat 93 -- Epilogue : The Genius Loci of Marrakesh 127 -- Notes 133 -- Bibliography 139 -- Index -- Illustrations : Figure 1 A. de Bérard. "Vue de la Ville de Maroc" 2 -- Figure 2 Dome in front of the mihrab at the Great Mosque of Tlemcen 6 -- Figure 3 Dome in front of the mihrab at the Great Mosque of Córdoba 6 -- Figure 4 Vegetal ornamental screens in the Kutubiyya Mosque 7 -- Figure 5 Hierarchy of arch typologies in the Kutubiyya Mosque 8 -- Figure 6 Almoravid minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque 9 -- Figure 7 The Kutubiyya minaret under repair 12 -- Figure 8 First plan of Marrakesh with its original orientation 28 -- Figure 9 Tower reconstruction at the Qasr al-Manar 29 -- Figure 10 Climbing formwork 31 -- Figure 11 Pisé walls at Sijilmasa 32 -- Figure 12 Hypothetical reconstruction of Ali in Yusuf's mosque 33 -- Figure 13 Exterior view of the Qubbat al Barudiyyin 34 -- Figure 14 Interior view of the Qubbat al Barudiyyin's cupola 35 -- Figure 15 Plan of Marrakesh's city walls in two phases, following an adjusted qibla 37 -- Figure 16 Plan of Bab Dukkala 41 -- Figure 17 Bab Dukkala, western exterior façade 42 -- Figure 18 Gate D from the fortress at Zagora 42 -- Figure 19 Plan of Bab Makhzen 43 -- Figure 20 Plan of Bab Dabbag 43 -- Figure 21 Plan of Bab al 'Ara'is 44 -- Figure 22 Axonometric projection of the western tower at Tasghimout 44 -- Figure 23 View of Tasghimout's western fortifications 45 -- Figure 24 Depiction of an eleventh century Almoravid ruler 50 -- Figure 25 Almoravid minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque 52 -- Figure 26 Detail of the strapwork from the side of the Kutubiyya minbar 53 -- Figure 27 Northern exterior wall of the extant Kutubiyya 59 -- Figure 28 Plan of the Kutubiyya Mosque 60 -- Figure 29 Integration of the northern arcade with the base of the minaret 62 -- Figure 30 Plan of the Tinmal mosque with its axial geometric schema 63 -- Figure 31 Eastern entrance to the second Kutubiyya prayer hall 63 -- Figure 32 Interior of the second prayer hall 64 -- Figure 33 Engaged column with stucco capital in the second prayer hall 65 -- Figure 34 View of the gibla transept in the second prayer hall 65 -- Figure 35 Mugarnas ceiling in the lateral gibla transept 66 -- Figure 36 Kutubiyya mihrab 67 -- Figure 37 Mihrab dome at the Kutubiyya 68 -- Figure 38 Ornamental program around the Kutubiyya mihrab 69 -- Figure 39 Ornamental program around the Tinmal mihrab 70 -- Figure 40 Sebka strapwork underneath a mihrab transept arch at Tinmal 71 -- Figure 41 Mihrab façade at Tinmal with its geometric scheme 72 -- Figure 42 Bab Agnaou 73 -- Figure 43 Bab al Robb 74 -- Figure 44 Map of Almohad era Marrakesh 75 -- Figure 45 Postcard of the mechouar (or rahba) in Marrakesh 76 -- Figure 46 Hypothetical map of the Agdal estate during the Almohad period 78 -- Figure 47 View of the Agdal garden, looking north 79 -- Figure 48 Irrigation channel feeding the buhayra within the Agdal 81 -- Figure 49 The Agdal garden buhayra, looking toward the late Mu minid pavilion known as the Dar al Hana 82 -- Figure 50 Plan of Roman Seville 95 -- Figure 51 Plan of Almohad era Seville, with the older Abbadid era mosque and gates 96 -- Figure 52 Plan of the Patio del Yeso 98 -- Figure 53 Northern side of the Patio del Yeso 98 -- Figure 54 Southern side of the Patio del Yeso 99 -- Figure 55 Plan of the congregational mosque at Seville 102 -- Figure 56 Stucco fragments from the Seville mihrab 103 -- Figure 57 The Giralda 104 -- Figure 58 Louis Haghe, Seville Gate of Xeres 106 -- Figure 59 Reconstruction of the Almohad shipyard and its seven ship sheds 107 -- Figure 60 Remnant of the Almohad era shipyard gate 107 -- Figure 61 Torre de la Plata 108 -- Figure 62 Torre del Oro 109 -- Figure 63 Hans Hogenburg, engraving of the Moroccan coast with Salé and Rabat 110 -- Figure 64 Plan of the Qasba des Oudayas 114 -- Figure 65 Drummed columns at the congregational mosque in Rabat 117 -- Figure 66 Remnants of the Rabat mosque's monumental minaret 119 -- Figure 67 View toward the gaşba from the riverside of the Bou Regreg 120 -- Figure 68 View toward the Hassan Mosque from the ramparts of the Rabat qaşba 120 -- Figure 69 Plan of Rabat 121 -- Figure 70 Internal plan of Bab al Rouah 122 -- Figure 71 Eastern gate of the Dchira fortress 123 -- Figure 71 Fr. Antonio de la Concepción, map of the royal qaşba of the emperor of Morocco 130 --
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