Munya

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Munya

Glaire Anderson

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References:

Anderson, Glaire. “The Digital Munya Project (2011-12),” https://glairedanderson.com/digitalmunya/.

Anderson, Glaire. The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia : Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013.

Anderson, Glaire D. “Aristocratic Residences and the Majlis in Umayyad Córdoba.” In Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam, edited by Michael Frishkopf and Federico Spinetti, 228–54. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018.

Felix, Arnold, Alberto Canto García, and Antonio Vallejo Triano, eds. Munyat ar-Rummaniya: Ein Islamischer Landsitz bei Córdoba. Madrider Beiträge 34. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2015.

Felix, Arnold, Alberto Canto García, and Antonio Vallejo Triano, eds. Munyat ar-Rummaniya: Die Gartenanlagen. Madrider Beiträge 39. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2019.Ruggles, D. Fairchild. Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Citation:

Glaire Anderson, “Munya,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 21 September 2021.

Glaire Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh, and Founding Director of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections (DLIVCC). She is an award-winning author of two monographs: A Bridge to the Sky: Art and Science in the Age of Ibn Firnas (Oxford University Press, 2024), and The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Aristocratic Estates and Court Culture in Umayyad Cordoba (Ashgate, 2013). Besides numerous articles on the architecture, art, and history of medieval Islamic Iberia and North Africa, she also co-edited The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors (Brill, 2018) and Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond (Brill, 2007).