In the Shadow of the Church: The Building of Mosques in Early Medieval Syria

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 Cities
	Mosques, 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 Materials
	Spolia 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