The Great Mosque of Córdoba

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

D. F. Ruggles

Yayın yılı:

2000

Yayıncı:

Cambridge University Press

In eighth-century Córdoba, a public architecture emerged that – like the Palace of Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ – blended Roman, Visigothic-Christian, and Syrian-Muslim elements. Córdoba’s congregational mosque exemplifies the integration of different architectural traditions. It was built on the site of a Visigothic church that, according to legend, stood on the ruins of a Roman temple. Centuries after the founding of the mosque, chroniclers described a church that was first divided into Muslim and Christian halves and then bought and replaced with a new mosque in 169/785–170/787. That this closely resembles the story of the adaption and rebuilding of the Damascus mosque casts doubt on the authenticity of the Córdoba account but indicates that even several hundred years later, the Syrian origins of the mosque resonated.

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