Les véritables origines de l’architecture andalouse

👉 Get a sneak peek at my travels and access the interactive map: https://averoesislam.podia.com/mails-... 📕 My downloadable guides: https://averoesislam.podia.com/guides... __________________ The Alhambra, the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, the Alcazaba of Malaga, the Aljafería of Zaragoza… I'm often told that Morocco was the main source of inspiration for Andalusian architecture… But what's the truth? This is the question that guided my research, the results of which I present here. You'll see, it's fascinating (and you learn much more than just about architecture 😉). ___________________ I thank the script proofreaders for this video: Quentin from the @Surlechamp channel and Rob from the @LHistoireAvecUneGrandeHache channel! ___________________ Chapters: 00:00: Introduction 01:20: Part I: Nasrid Art, a Moroccan Heritage? 10:38: Discover Secret Andalusia 11:58: Part II: The Art of the Umayyads of Cordoba 21:40: Part III: The Art of the Taifas, Imitation or Innovation? 33:24: Part IV: The Age of the Berber "Empires" (Almoravids and Almohads) 42:40: Part V: Almoravid and Almohad Art, Another Reality ___________________ 📕 Publications used to create this video (I couldn't include everything due to space constraints) 📘 Books: Francine Giese and Alberto León-Muños (eds.), Diálogo ártistico durante la Edad Media. Arte islámico - Arte mudéjar, Casa Árabe, 2020. Jerrilynn D. Dodds (ed.), Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 97-103. Jonathan M. Bloom (ed.), Architecture of the Islamic West. North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2020. Mariam Rosser-Owen and Glaire D. Anderson (eds.), Revisiting al-Andalus. Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2007. Marianne Barrucand and Achim Bednorz, Moorish Architecture in Andalusia, Taschen, 1992-2007. Olga Bush, Reframing the Alhambra. Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Pablo Beneito and Fátima Roldán (eds.), Al-Andalus y el Norte de África. Relations and influences, Sevilla, Fundación El Monte, 2004. Xavier Salmon, Fez Marinide. A capital for the arts (1276-1465), Paris, Lienart, 2021. 📚Items: Bernabé Cabañero Subiza, “El palacio de la Aljafería de Zaragoza entre la tradición omeya y la renovación ‘abbasí y fatimí”, in La Aljafería y el arte del Islam Occidental en el siglo XI: Actas del Seminario Internacional celebrated en Zaragoza los días 1, 2 y 3 de diciembre de 2004, 2012, p. 201-248. D. Basilio Pavón Maldonado, “Notas sobre Madinat al-Zahra: el jardín de la terraza de las cuatro albercas de Madinat al-Zahra, el Salón Rico y la qubba de las tejas de oro”, online, available here: https://www.basiliopavonmaldonado.es/... Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, “El Palacio de los Leones de la Alhambra: ¿Madrasa, zāwiya y tumba de Muḥammad V? Estudio para un debate”, Al-Qantara, 22(1), p. 77-120. Manuel Pedro Acién Almansa and María Antonia Martínez Núñez, “Datos arqueológicos sobre la presencia meriní en Málaga”, Mainake, n°25, 2003, p. 403-416. Maria Marcos Cobaleda, “La Unidad de Al-Andalus y el Magreb en la primera mitad del siglo XII: Aportaciones de los Almorávides al arte medieval peninsular”, p. 79-92. María Marcos Cobaleda and Françoise Pirot, “The muqarnas in the medieval Mediterranean from the Almoravid era to the end of the 15th century”, History & measurement [Online], XXXI-2, 2016. Mariam Rosser-Owen, “Andalusi Spolia in Medieval Morocco: “Architectural Politics, Political Architecture””, Medieval Encounters, 20, 2017, p. 152-198. Samuel Márquez Bueno, “Rasgos comunes en la arquitectura meriní y nazarí. A vision through the monumental military and civil ports”, in Al-Mansûra. La ciudad olvidada, Ceuta, Servicio de Museos, Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Mujer, Ciudad autónoma de Ceuta, 2013, p. 91-109. Susana Calvo Capilla, “Spolia and Classical Revivals in Legitimacy Discourses: From Cordoba to the Mamluk Mosques of Cairo”, in Artistic and Cultural Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, Malaga, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, p. 57-78. Susana Calvo Capilla, “The Visual Construction of the Umayyad Caliphate in Al-Andalus through the Great Mosque of Cordoba”, MDPI, vol. 7, no. 3, 2018. Susana Calvo Capilla, “Tiempo y memoria de los antiguos en el arte islámico de Córdoba y Damasco”, Codex Aqvilarensis, n°40, 2024, p. 119-134. Virgilio Martínez Enamorado, “The Almoravids, creators of a common art”, in Mauritania y España: una historia común: los almorávides. Unificadores del Magreb y al-Andalus (s. XI-XII), Granada, Fundación El Legado Andalusí, 2003, p. 99-132.