Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia written by Glaire D. Anderson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case study of Córdoban aristocratic estates during the Umayyad dynastic period (756-1031), synthesizing archaeological evidence unearthed from the 1980s up to 2009 with extant works of Andalusi art and architecture as well as evidence from medieval Arabic texts; incorporating material and insights from the fields of agricultural, economic, social and political history; and offering a fuller picture of secular architecture and social history in the caliphal lands and the Mediterranean.