The Agdal of Marrakesh (Twelfth to Twentieth Centuries): An Agricultural Space for Caliphs and Sultans. Part 1: History

Autor: Julio Navarro, Íñigo Almela, Fidel Garrido
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, Navarro Palazón, Julio, Navarro Palazón, Julio [0000-0003-4698-5506]
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Digital.CSIC: Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
ISSN: 2211-8993
DOI: 10.1163/22118993_03401p003
Popis: Author’s note: The second part of this article, “The Agdal of Marrakesh (Twelfth to Twentieth Centuries): An Agricultural Space for Caliphs and Sultans. Part II : Hydraulics, Architecture, and Agriculture,” will be published in the subsequent volume, Muqarnas 35. We are grateful to D. Fairchild Ruggles, who generously offered to help us edit the essay and divide it into two parts.
The Agdal is an enormous estate, located south of Marrakesh, that has survived from the twelfth century to the present. Historically it was used for agricultural production and related functions, and included pleasure gardens, pools, mills, and seasonal residences. This study presents the results of a multi-year survey of the Agdal¿s water bodies, its place within the regional hydraulic system of kha¿¿¿ras, cultivation practiced there throughout the centuries, and the internal organization of its land and more than forty buildings. This archaeological approach is joined with a study of manuscript and published sources to give a comprehensive history of the Agdal, one of the most important historic landscapes in the Islamic world.
This article is part of a research and development project within the Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia, Subprograma Estatal de Generación del Conocimiento of the Spanish Government’s Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness for the year 2015. The project is titled “Almunias del Occidente islámico: arquitectura, arqueología y fuentes documentales” (HAR2015-64605-C2-1-P) [Almunias of Western Islam: Architecture, Archaeology, and Historical Sources] and was co-financed with FEDER funds.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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