Category: Moorish architecture

The Almohad influence on architecture is preserved in the area of the city called the Albaicín with its fine examples of Moorish and Morisco construction.

The Wilhelma ( 1846 ) in Stuttgart is an example of Moorish Revival architecture.

In architecture, Egyptian revival architecture was popular mostly in the early and mid-19th century, and Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture or Moorish Revival architecture, covering a variety of general Islamic or Indian features, in the later part of the century ; " Saracenic " referred to styles from Arabic-speaking areas.

This mission is architecturally distinctive because of the strong Islamic architecture | Moorish lines exhibited.

Temple B ' nai Shalom is a rare example of Moorish Revival architecture.

The city of Granada brings in tourists from all over the world thanks to its Moorish architecture and famous Alhambra palace.

Cáceres was declared a World Heritage City by UNESCO in 1986 because of the city's blend of Roman, Moorish, Northern Gothic and Italian Renaissance architecture.

Category: Moorish Revival architecture in California

An arcade often surrounds part or all of a town square in Mediterranean climate cultures, such as in Italian architecture, Spanish architecture, Moorish architecture, Arabic architecture, Colonial architecture ; and subsequent Mission Revival style architecture, Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture, and many other original and revival styles around the world.

Moorish architecture reached its peak with the construction of the Alhambra, the magnificent palace / fortress of Granada, with its open and breezy interior spaces adorned in red, blue, and gold.

Moorish architecture has its roots deeply established in the Arab tradition of architecture and design established during the era of the first Caliphate of the Umayyads in the Levant circa 660AD with its capital Damascus having very well preserved examples of fine Arab Islamic design and geometrics, including the carmen, which is the typical Damascene house, opening on the inside with a fountain as the house's centre piece.

The tile work, geometric patterns, multiple arches, domes, and polychrome brick and stone work that characterize Islamic and Moorish architecture were influenced to some extent by Byzantine architecture.

The Abencerrages ( from the Arabic for " Saddler's Son "), were a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Moorish kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.

He is remembered for winning the Battle of Tours in 732, in which he defeated an invading Moorish army.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

They are more valuable than all else of Moorish Spain, which though we may not like it, is the true Spain .”

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story Un Capitano Moro (" A Moorish Captain ") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565.

Othello is an adaptation of the Italian writer Cinthio's tale " Un Capitano Moro " (" A Moorish Captain ") from his Gli Hecatommithi ( 1565 ), a collection of one hundred tales in the style of Boccaccio's Decameron.

Cinthio's Moor is the model for Shakespeare's Othello, but some researchers believe the poet also took inspiration from the several Moorish delegations from Morocco to Elizabethan England circa 1600.

For example, Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, whose rule is considered to have marked the peak of power for Moorish Al-Andalus Iberia, married Abda, daughter of Sancho Garcés II of Navarra, who bore him a son, named Abd al-Rahman, and commonly known in pejorative sense as Sanchuelo ( Little Sancho, in Arabic: Shanjoul ).

* 718: Moorish Islamic rule is at its widest, covering almost all of the Iberian Peninsula, the Pyrenees, and part of today's southern France.

Christopher Columbus is in Alhambra, and sees the Moorish king come out of the city gates and kiss the hands of the Spanish king, queen and prince.

He is appointed to governor ( Exarch ) and pacifies with success the Moorish tribes.

* The Almohad dynasty of Caliphs ( not universally accepted ) that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus ( Moorish Spain ) is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.

Another related term is moresque, meaning " Moorish "; Randle Cotgrave's A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues of 1611 defines this as: " a rude or anticke painting, or carving, wherin the feet and tayles of beasts, & c, are intermingled with, or made to resemble, a kind of wild leaves, & c ." and " arabesque ", in its earliest use cited in the OED ( but as a French word ), as " Rebeske work ; a small and curious flourishing ".

As used in Moorish and Arabic decorative art ( from which, almost exclusively, it was known in the Middle Ages ), representations of living creatures were excluded ; but in the arabesques of Raphael, founded on the ancient Græco-Roman work of this kind, and in those of Renaissance decoration, human and animal figures, both natural and grotesque, as well as vases, armour, and objects of art, are freely introduced ; to this the term is now usually applied, the other being distinguished as Moorish Arabesque, or Moresque.

The Alhambra, a Moorish citadel and palace, is in Granada.

Albayzín ( also written as Albaicín ), located on a hill on the right bank of the river Darro, is the ancient Moorish quarter of the city and transports the visitor to a unique world: the site of the ancient city of Elvira, so-called before the Zirid Moors renamed it Granada.

** The Almohad dynasty of caliphs ( not universally accepted ), that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus ( Moorish Spain ), is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.

* 1422 — Cape Nao, the limit of Moorish navigation is passed as the African Coast is mapped.

However, there is some evidence that during this period of independence from external rule, the city was deserted because it was too exposed to attacks by Moorish pirates from the sea.

* Alcazaba a term for Moorish citadels in Spain

During the Moorish occupation and settlement, the name was extended and referred to as Uádi Ana ( uadi being the Arab term for river ), later passed on to Portuguese and Spanish settlers as the Ouadiana, and later just Odiana.

The equivalent in Italy is sindaco ( historical titles include podestà ), in Greece δήμαρχος ' demarkhos ' ( the " archon of the deme "), in France maire, in Argentina intendente, in Bohemia starosta, in Brazil prefeito ' prefect ', in Romania primar and in Spain alcalde, a term derived from a Moorish post's Arabic name.

As the branches of Vulgar Latin began to evolve into separate Romance languages, the term that would evolve into español began to be used to refer to these derivative languages ( especially as opposed to the Arabic and Hebrew of the Moorish and Jewish inhabitants of Iberia ).

Praia, likely, received its full name ( which is of Moorish or Islamic origin ) for being the point of settlement for the administrator of lands or royal treasurer on the island ; almoxarife means treasurer, a term now in disuse in Portugal, but which refers to an agent responsible for guarding, distributing, inventorying goods or supplies.

The term Bristol Byzantine, referring to a style influenced by Byzantine and Moorish architecture and applied mainly to warehouses, factories, and other industrial buildings in the city of Bristol, is thought to have been invented by Sir John Summerson.

Moorish potters from Majorca are reputed to have worked in Sicily and it has been suggested that their wares reached the Italian mainland from Caltagirone An alternative explanation of the name is that it comes from the Spanish term obra de Malaga, denoting “ wares from Malaga ”.

The term was also used by Arabized Spanish, Portuguese and Berbers in Mozarabic-speaking Moorish Spain ( cf.

It is said that the term carajo originated during the Moorish invasion in Spain.