Guarding a Well-Ordered Space on a Mediterranean Island

Contenu

Titre

Guarding a Well-Ordered Space on a Mediterranean Island

Auteur

Holod, Renata

Kahlaoui, Tarek

Date

2019

Dans

The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers

From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea

Résumé

For Ifriqiya, the Maghrib, and the eastern coast of al-Andalus, a ribāṭ can be defined as a coastal point of defense meant to host <em>ghazīs</em>, warriors for the faith or volunteers on the basis of religious commitment. From the eighth century onward, <em>ribāṭs</em> stretched along the seashore of Islamic Maghrib from Tripoli (Ṭarāblus) up to the east coast of al-Andalus. These were typically connected to another urban structure with an immediately supporting rural environment, or they could be isolated structures supplied from the sea. In one sense, they functioned in much the same way as stations along the ‘Abbasid-Byzantine land

Editeur

University Press of Colorado

Sujet

Archéologie -- Djerba

Hâra, mosquée al- (Sedouikech, Djerba)

Monuments -- Djerba

Mughzal, mosquée (Beni Maaguel, djerba)

Langue

eng

rédacteur

Eger, A. Asa

pages

47-79

ISBN

978-1-60732-878-0

uri

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvhn07rc.5

Source

JSTOR