Babylone, Grenade, villes mythiques. Récits, réalités, représentations
villes mythiques, Babylone, Grenade, représentations, littérature, peinture
À travers l’exemple de Babylone et de Grenade, deux villes chargées d’histoire, riches de vestiges et sublimées par la valeur symbolique et la dimension mythique qui leur ont été conférées au fil du temps, l’ouvrage a pour objectif de confronter la réalité spatiale, événementielle, sociale et monumentale avec ses reconstitutions fictionnelles. Celles-ci se présentent sous différentes formes, dans la littérature et les mythes littéraires, dans la peinture, mais aussi, en partie, dans le discours académique lui-même, que se soit par les interprétations qu’il suggère ou par la nécessité de se démarquer de l’ombre portée de « l’utopisation » sur l’objectivité ou la neutralité de la recherche dans les différents domaines disciplinaires représentés.
Coordonné par Katia Zakharia, spécialiste de la littérature arabe, professeur de littérature arabe classique à l’université Lumière Lyon 2, chercheur au Groupe de recherches et d’études sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient (GREMMO). Les contributions qu’elle réunit dans cet ouvrage illustrent, dans une ouverture française et européenne, la forte synergie scientifique entre différentes UMR de la MOM (GREMMO, Archéorient et HISoMA) et entre celles-ci et d’autres UMR du paysage lyonnais (CIHAM).
Katia Zakharia (Dir.)
http://www.mom.fr/Babylone-Grenade-villes-mythiques,1251.html
Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerrannée
2014
280
FR
Ouvrage
The city as a site of power in the Islamic West : The Alhambra of the Nasrids and New Fes
Alhambra, Granada, Grenade, New Fes, Fes, Fès, ville islamique, Islamic city, gouvernance, histoire urbaine, développement urbain, Bennison Amira, culture urbaine
<div>Full title : The city as a site of power in the Islamic West: The Alhambra (Madīnatal-Ḥamrā’) of the Nasrids and New Fes (Madīnat al-Bayḍā’)</div>
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NB : This lecture was part of the conference 'Sites of power : The city of Granada as cultural icon' held at the University of Cambridge on 29 - 30 April 2011.</div>
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<b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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This paper explores the origins of the Nasrid Alhambra as a statement of monarchical control and power in Granada from the establishment of the Ṣanhāja Berber Zirids in the town in the eleventh century. It will then compare the maturation of the site from an extramural fortress to a royal city under the Nasrids (13th-15th centuries) with the similar process which took place in the Moroccan city of Fes where the Marinid dynasty contructed a royal city in the vicinity of previous extramural fortresses at the same time.</div>
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Although the Alhambra is often seen as unique, it is possible that the site’s development under the Nasrids used the slightly earlier example of New Fes as a model, especially as information about it would have been readily available from Zanata troops closely associated with the Marinids who went to serve the Nasrids. The similarity of the cities’ names in Arabic – the Red City (Madīnat al-Ḥamrā’) and the White City (Madīnat al-Bayḍā’) – suggests at least a degree of mutual recognition and perhaps competition. Both cities may also been seen in the broader context of urban development in the post-caliphal Islamic world where citadels connected to older urban conurbations had become a common way for regimes to physically articulate their relationship with their Muslim subjects. This relationship emphasised the physical (and coercive) power of a regime which implied their ability to both protect and chastise and in most cases other foundations for the good of the populace reassured them of the goodwill of their rulers: a hospital just below the Alhambra; theological colleges (madrasas) and inns in Old Fes.</div>
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The purpose of this discussion is to attempt to understand the Alhambra from the perspective of the fourteenth century Muslims of Granada and to restore it to its context which cannot exclude nearby Marinid Morocco given the human contact, the political rivalry, and the artistic competition between Granada and Morocco.</div>
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<b>Amira Bennison </b>is University Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and a Fellow of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge.</div>
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Amira Bennison
30 April 2011
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/04/amira-bennison-the-city-as-a-site-of-power-in-the-islamic-west-the-alhambra-madinatal-%E1%B8%A4amra%E2%80%99-of-the-nasrids-and-new-fes-madinat-al-bay%E1%B8%8Da%E2%80%99/