By Simon O'Meara
This ebook develops educational realizing of Muslim city house through pursuing the structural common sense of the premodern Arab-Muslim urban, or medina. With specific connection with The e-book of partitions, an historic discourse of Islamic legislation whose basic topic is the wall, the booklet determines the that means of a wall after which makes use of it to research the gap of Fez. one in every of more and more experiences to handle house as a class of severe research, the booklet makes the next contributions to scholarship. Methodologically, it breaks with the culture of viewing Islamic structure as a well-defined item saw through a expert at an aesthetically directed distance; particularly, it inhabits the good judgment of this structure through rethinking it discursively from in the tradition that produced it. Hermeneutically, it sheds new gentle on one in every of North Africa's oldest medinas, and thereby illuminates a kind of setting nonetheless universal to a lot of the Arab-Muslim international. Empirically, it brings to the eye of mainstream scholarship a felony discourse and aesthetic that contributed to the shape and sturdiness of this kind of atmosphere; and it exposes a preoccupation with partitions and different limits in premodern city Arab-Muslim tradition, and a legendary paradigm informing the basis narratives of a couple of old medinas. offering a clean standpoint for the certainty of Muslim city society and suggestion, this leading edge learn might be of curiosity to scholars and researchers of Islamic reports, structure and sociology.
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Mamama b. al-Mu‘izz b. ‘Aviya b. 101 Upon Denas’ death, his two sons ‘Ajcsa and al-Futes continued their father’s work. Less extensive in scope, their constructions were of a military order only: “Al-Futes fortified (SaUUana) the Andalus bank of Fez, building there a citadel for his residency [ . . ”102 These fortifications proved of no avail before the Almoravids. To this dynasty RawR al-qirVAs and Zahrat al-As ascribe many structural, military, and conceptual changes: During the period of the Almoravids, the dividing ramparts that were built by the Idrisids between the two banks of Fez were demolished, and [also those] between the outskirts of the two banks.
This definitive quality of a wall is explicit to the etymology of one of the two Arabic words for the enclosure’s external or party wall, namely, SA”iV (pl. ”88 Implicit to the second word, jidAr (pl. judrAn, judur), is the idea of the party wall and the accompanying concept of consensual contiguity, whereby the owner of a pre-existing dAr is obliged to make a “gift” of one or more of his external walls for his future neighbors to build on. As explained by the lexicographer Ibn Manwer 15 SPACE AND MUSLIM URBAN LIFE (d.
96 Replete with Qur’anic references (44:54, 55:72, and 56:22), the first proverb will be treated further in Chapter Five. Alluded to in the second proverb is Idrcs II’s legendary speech at the foundation of Fez, to be discussed in Chapter Six. 16 PREMODERN FEZ Concerning the individual history of Fez and the part of walls therein, from the city’s foundation to the signing of the French Protectorate in 1912, Fez has been conquered and seized at least fourteen times. 98 In both cases, walls played a key role.