brill.com/ho1 The Aghlabids and their Neighbors Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa Glaire D. Anderson, UNC-Chapel Hill, Corisande Fenwick, University College London (UCL), and Mariam Rosser-Owen, Victoria & Albert Museum The first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, despite the canonical status of its monuments and artworks in early Islamic art history. The Aghlabids and their Neighbors focuses new attention on this key dynasty. The essays in this volume, produced by an international group of specialists in history, art and › November 2017 architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty’s › Hardback interactions with neighbors in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies › ISBN: 9789004355668 elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and revealing List price: €189 / $218 the centrality of the dynasty and the region to global economic and political networks. › E-ISBN: 9789004356047 › Language: English, French, READERSHIP: Arabic All interested in the history of the Aghlabid dynasty and medieval North Africa, and › Handbook of Oriental Studies. anyone concerned with medieval Islamic studies and the medieval Mediterranean. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 122 For more information see https://www.brill.com/ho1 › Imprint: BRILL Subject Middle East and Islamic Studies › Archaeology, Art & Architecture Art History › Archaeology Middle East and Islamic Studies › History & Culture History › General African Studies › North Africa E-Book booksandjournals.brillonline.com offers online access to Brill's books and journals. MyBook Printed E-book for › € 25 / $ 25 › brill.com/mybook Order information: Order online at brill.com For the Americas call (toll free) 1 (844) 232 3707 | or email us at: [email protected] For outside the Americas call +44 (0) 1767 604-954 | or email us at: [email protected] Submission information: brill.com/authors.