عنوان

A qibla mušarriqa for the First al-Aqṣà Mosque? A New Stratigraphic, Planimetric, and Chronological Reading of Hamilton's Excavation, and Some Considerations on the Introduction of the Concave miḥrāb

شماره

LA107999

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A qibla mušarriqa for the First al-Aqṣà Mosque? A New Stratigraphic, Planimetric, and Chronological Reading of Hamilton's Excavation, and Some Considerations on the Introduction of the Concave miḥrāb

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Michelina Di Cesare

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper reconstructs an alternative planimetric and structural history of al-Aqṣà mosque in the pre-crusader period and reassesses the chronology. In particular, it proposes reading the plan of the first Aqṣà, which emerged from Hamilton's excavations, as oriented towards the east rather than the south, thus having an astronomical orientation like other 7th-century and early 8th-century mosques. The identification of the eastern wall rather than the southern as the qiblī wall would mean the aisles would not be perpendicular but rather parallel to it, thus indicating an arrangement usually found in Umayyad mosques. It follows that the precocious appearance of the transept and the aisles perpendicular to the qiblī wall in the second Aqṣà would result from the re-orientation to the south of the previous structure. This change is interpreted as connected to the introduction of the concave miḥrāb and its axial relationship with the Dome of the Rock. This paper reconstructs an alternative planimetric and structural history of al-Aqṣà mosque in the pre-crusader period and reassesses the chronology. In particular, it proposes reading the plan of the first Aqṣà, which emerged from Hamilton's excavations, as oriented towards the east rather than the south, thus having an astronomical orientation like other 7th-century and early 8th-century mosques. The identification of the eastern wall rather than the southern as the qiblī wall would mean the aisles would not be perpendicular but rather parallel to it, thus indicating an arrangement usually found in Umayyad mosques. It follows that the precocious appearance of the transept and the aisles perpendicular to the qiblī wall in the second Aqṣà would result from the re-orientation to the south of the previous structure. This change is interpreted as connected to the introduction of the concave miḥrāb and its axial relationship with the Dome of the Rock.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

66-96

عنوان

Annali Sezione Orientale

شماره جلد

77/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2468-5631

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Aqṣà mosque

اصطلاح موضوعی

astronomical orientation

اصطلاح موضوعی

Dome of the Rock

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

اصطلاح موضوعی

miḥrāb

اصطلاح موضوعی

qibla

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Michelina Di Cesare

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/24685631-12340026

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y