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I am delighted to announce the publication of my book, Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus. The ʿĀmirid Regency c. 970-1010 AD (Leiden: Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies, 2021).
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<div>https://brill.com/view/title/60806</div>
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<div>In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur,
the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the transcendental achievements of the first two caliphs. But he also commissioned a vast extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba,
founded a palatine city, conducted skilled diplomatic relations, patronised a circle of court poets, and owned some of the most spectacular objects to survive from al-Andalus, in ivory and marble. This study presents the evidence for a reconsideration of this
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<div>The e-book is available Open Access, thanks to hugely generous support from the research project "The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond" (PI Therese Martin, RTI2018-098615-B-100,
financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation/AEI /10.13039/501100011033/ FEDER “Una manera de hacer Europa"), and to an International Center of Medieval Art Kress Publication grant.
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<div>with all best wishes for the holidays,</div>
Mariam<br>
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