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    Topographies of power in Aghlabid-era Kairouan

    Goodson, Caroline (2017) Topographies of power in Aghlabid-era Kairouan. In: Anderson, G.D. and Fenwick, C. and Rosser-Owen, M. (eds.) The Aghlabids and their Neighbors: Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 122. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 9789004355668.

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    Abstract

    Book synopsis: The first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, despite the canonical status of its monuments and artworks in early Islamic art history. The Aghlabids and their Neighbors focuses new attention on this key dynasty. The essays in this volume, produced by an international group of specialists in history, art and architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty’s interactions with neighbors in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and revealing the centrality of the dynasty and the region to global economic and political networks.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Additional Information: Series ISSN: 0169-9423
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Research Centres and Institutes: Architecture, Space and Society, Centre for
    Depositing User: Caroline Goodson
    Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2017 08:46
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:21
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14244

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