In the Shadow of the Church: The Building of Mosques in Early Medieval Syria; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Plates; Note on Transliteration; 1 Introduction; 2 After the Conquest: The Entangled Lives of Churches and Mosques; Cities and Churches after the Conquest; Narratives about Early Mosques and Presumed Cases of Conversion of Churches into Mosques; Mosques near the Basilica of the Nativity and the Holy Sepulcher; 3 The Contiguity of Churches and Mosques; Deconstructing the Paradigm of Partition.
"Contiguity": Churches and Mosques in the Conquered CitiesMosques, Markets, and Administrative Complexes; Muslims' Attraction to Churches; 4 In and Out of Place; The Coexistence of Religious Communities and the Location of Places of Worship; Communities' Encounters; Art and Identity in Early Medieval Bilad al-Sham; 5 Material Transfers in the Early Medieval Mediterranean: Marble Columns from Churches to Mosques; Christian Columns and Marble Material in Early Medieval Mosques; Literary Evidence of the Reuse of Christian Columns in the Early Medieval Period.
Modalities of the Acquisition and Transfer of MaterialsSpolia in the Historiography of Islamic Art; 6 More Christianorum: Marble and Columns in Early Medieval Mosques; Marble and the Aesthetics of Polychromy; Columns as Links of an Architectural Network; Sacred Columns; 7 Epilogue; The Vanishing of the Late Antique Sacred Landscape; A New Place for Christian Spolia in Islamic Art; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; Index; Plates.
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