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hispanomusulmana (II): Reinos the Nation (1031-1085)

Kingdoms Taifa to 1037

Taifa Kingdoms to 1085

The integrative role that had served the Umayyad dynasty of Cordoba in al- Andalus disappeared after the collapse of the caliphate as a result of civil wars early eleventh century, giving way to a period of political fragmentation known as the Taifa Kingdoms . Then some local dynasties emerged as the Hudi in Zaragoza, the du-l- Nuni in Toledo, the abbeys Sevilla and Granada Zirid . All of them conspired with the political weakness cultural and artistic splendor, one of whose best examples is the Palace Aljaferia Hudi of Zaragoza, who inherits the typological solutions tested during the caliphate of Cordoba Mosque and the palace of Medina Azahara .

Aljafería Palace, Zaragoza (1065-1081). Floor of the palace in time taifal.

Aljafería Palace, Zaragoza (1065-1081). Main elevation.

Aljafería Palace, Zaragoza (1065-1081). Patio de Santa Isabel.

Aljafería Palace, Zaragoza (1065-1081). Golden hall.

Aljafería Palace, Zaragoza (1065-1081). Floor of the palace today.

Aljafería Palace , Zaragoza (1065-1081). Volume.

To learn more about the Palace Aljafería:

Almagro, Antonio. Aljafería of Zaragoza. Proceedings of the First Conference of Islamic Culture. Al-Andalus, eight centuries of history (Toledo 1987). Ed West Institute of Islamic Culture. Madrid, 1989, pp.128-134. ( Digital.CSIC available).

Almagro, Antonio. Aljafería The image over time . morphological evolution. The Aljafería II Zaragoza, 1998, pp. 407-421. ( available Digital.CSIC )

Cabañero Switzerland, Barnabas. The Aljafería of Zaragoza. Artigrama, no. 22 , University of Zaragoza. Department of Art History, 2007. Pp. 103-129. (Available in Digital.CSIC )

Reading offered at the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana (USA) The January 28, 2011.

Author: Pablo Álvarez Funes