Issue No. 22 of the journal “Awraq” has been published

The issue is dedicated to “Mosques in the Mediterranean Region: Archaeology, Heritage, and Past and Present Societies.”

This volume, edited by Professor Carmen González Gutiérrez, compiles some of the presentations from the international series “Mosques of the Mediterranean Region,” held at Casa Árabe in Córdoba initially between May and October 2023, with a second edition running from ate 2023 through November 2024, prompted by the success of the first.

It highlights the importance of approaching the study of Islamic religious spaces beyond the scope of archaeology, with an interdisciplinary and transregional perspective that helps us understand past and present societies, without losing sight of the connections that existed in the medieval Mediterranean—connections that explain urban, architectural, social, and religious behaviors.

Following the letter from the director of Casa Árabe, Miguel Moro Aguilar, and from Carmen González herself, this issue reprints the paper by Jorge Rouco (et al.) titled “Three New Mosques in Southeastern al-Andalus: An Archaeological Approach,” as well as the articles “The Formation of Socio-Religious Complexes Around Mosques in the Islamic West” by Íñigo Almela; “The Ulemas of al-Andalus in the Mosques: An Approach to Their Doctrines and Social Practices,” by Maribel Fierro; “The Emergence of Mosques in the East in the Early Centuries of Islam,” by Mattia Guidetti; “Archaeology of the Andalusian Ribat: The Caliphal Rábita of Guaramar del Segura (Alicante),” by Rafael Azuar; and “Two New Umayyad Mosques in Abila of the Decapolis and in Shuqayra al-Gharbiyye (Jordan),” by Ignacio Arce.

The book was presented in Córdoba on October 27, as part of the conference “Archaeology of Domestic Spaces and Daily Life.”

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