Granada art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Granada art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Bush, Olga

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061806
Doc. NO	:	ALei2203
Main Entry	:	Bush, Olga
Title & Author	:	Granada art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Bush, Olga
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(4,016 words)
Abstract	:	The city of Granada ( madīnat Garnāṭa ) rose to prominence when it became the capital of the Zīrid dynasty (r. 403–84/1013–91). Three towers on the Mawrūr hill, known today as the Torres Bermejas, formed part of the defensive enclosure of the madīna . Although mediaeval and modern alterations obscure their history, they may be the earliest structures erected or rebuilt by the Zīrids, who undertook their major constructions on the hill known today as Albaicín or Albayzín, separated from the Sabīka and Mawrūr hills by the river Darro. They
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2203.pdf