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Glaire D. Anderson, UNC-Chapel Hill, Corisande Fenwick, University College London (UCL), and Mariam Rosser-Owen, Victoria &#38; Albert MuseumThe 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 architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty’s interactions with neighbors in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and revealing the centrality of the dynasty and the region to global economic and political networks. Biographical noteGlaire D. Anderson, PhD (2005), MIT, is Associate Professor of Islamic Art History at UNC-Chapel Hill. Specializing in the arts of al-Andalus and the caliphal era, she is author of The Islamic villa in early medieval Iberia(Ashgate, 2013).Corisande Fenwick, PhD (2013), Stanford University, is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCL. She is the author of many articles on North African archaeology and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology.Mariam Rosser-Owen, PhD (2002), University of Oxford, is Curator of Arab World collections at the Victoria &#38; Albert Museum. She has published many articles on the arts of the Islamic West, and is author of Islamic Arts from Spain (V&#38;A Publishing, 2010).Contributors:Lotfi Abdeljaouad, Glaire D. Anderson, Lucia Arcifa, Fabiola Ardizzone, Alessandra Bagnera, Jonathan M. Bloom, Lorenzo Bondioli, Chloé Capel, Patrice Cressier, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Abdelaziz Daoulatli, Claire Déléry, Ahmed El Bahi, Kaoutar Elbaljan, Ahmed Ettahiri, Abdelhamid Fenina, Elizabeth Fentress, Abdallah Fili, Mohamed Ghodhbane, Caroline Goodson, Soundes Gragueb Chatti, Khadija Hamdi, Renata Holod, Jeremy Johns, Tarek Kahlaoui, Hugh Kennedy, Sihem Lamine, Faouzi Mahfoudh, David Mattingly, Irene Montilla, Annliese Nef, Elena Pezzini, Nadège Picotin, Cheryl Porter, Dwight Reynolds, Viva Sacco, Elena Salinas, Martin Sterry.ReadershipAll interested in the history of the Aghlabid dynasty and medieval North Africa, and anyone concerned with medieval Islamic studies and the medieval Mediterranean.Table of contentsAcknowledgmentsList of MapsList of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsAghlabid TimelineList of Aghlabid RulersMaps1 The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors: An IntroductionGlaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-OwenPart 1: State-building2 The Origins of the AghlabidsHugh Kennedy3 Comment les Aghlabides ont-ils gouverné l’Ifriqiya ?Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi4 Reinterpreting the Aghlabids’ Sicilian Policy (827–910)Annliese Nef5 Topographies of Power in Aghlabid-Era KairouanCaroline Goodson6 L’atelier monétaire d’al-ʿAbbassiyya: du « vieux château » (al-Qasr al-Qadim) à la ville princière aghlabideAbdelhamid Fenina7 Le changement du type monétaire des dinars aghlabides sous le règne de Ziyadat Allah III : évolution ou révolution artistique?Mohamed Ghodhbane8 Ziryab in the Aghlabid CourtDwight ReynoldsPart 2: Monuments: The Physical Construction of Power9 La Grande Mosquée de Kairouan : textes et contexte archéologiqueFaouzi Mahfoudh 10 The Marble Panels in the Mihrab of the Great Mosque of KairouanJonathan M. Bloom11 Fragments d’histoire du minbar de KairouanNadège Picotin and Claire Déléry12 Les carreaux verts et jaunes « cachés » du mihrab de la Grande Mosquée de Kairouan et analogie avec une sélection d’objets kairouanaisKhadija Hamdi13 La Grande Mosquée Zitouna : un authentique monument aghlabide (milieu du IXe siècle)Abdelaziz Daoulatli14 The Zaytuna: The Mosque of a Rebellious CitySihem Lamine15 Le coufique des inscriptions monumentales et funéraires aghlabidesLotfi Abdeljaouad16 Les ribāṭs aghlabides : un problème d’identificationAhmed El BahiPart 3: Ceramics: Morphology and Mobility17 La céramique aghlabide de Raqqada et les productions de l’Orient islamique : parenté et filiationSoundes Gragueb Chatti18 Aghlabid Palermo: Written Sources and Archaeological EvidenceFabiola Ardizzone †, Elena Pezzini, and Viva Sacco19 Palermo in the Ninth and Early Tenth Century: Ceramics as Archaeological Markers of Cultural DynamicsLucia Arcifa and Alessandra Bagnera20 La céramique des niveaux idrisside et zénète de la Mosquée al-Qarawiyyin de Fès (IXe-Xe siècles)Kaoutar El Baljani, Ahmed S. Ettahiri, and Abdallah Fili21 Material Culture Interactions between al-Andalus and the AghlabidsElena Salinas and Irene MontillaPart 4: Neighbors: North Africa and the Central Mediterranean in the Ninth Century22 Jerba of the Ninth Century: Under Aghlabid Control?Renata Holod and Tarek Kahlaoui23 Islamic Bari between the Aghlabids and the Two EmpiresLorenzo Bondioli24 Nakur: un émirat rifain pro-omeyyade contemporain des AghlabidesPatrice Cressier25 Idris I and the BerbersElizabeth Fentress26 Sijilmassa in the Footsteps of the Aghlabids: The Hypothesis of a Ninth-Century New Royal City in the Tafilalt Plain (Morocco)Chloé Capel27 Zuwila and Fazzan in the Seventh to Tenth Centuries: The Emergence of a New Trading CenterDavid Mattingly and Martin SterryPart 5: Legacy28 The Materiality of the Blue Quran: A Physical and Technological StudyCheryl Porter29 The Palermo Quran (AH 372/982–3 CE) and its Historical ContextJeremy JohnsBibliographyIndexhttp://www.brill.com/products/book/aghlabids-and-their-neighbours