Bir Kadim Arap Metropolü San’â’
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| Název: | Bir Kadim Arap Metropolü San’â’ |
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| Autoři: | Blumi, Isa |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM) 2023 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Electronic Resource |
| Abstrakt: | Today the largest and most populous city in Southern Arabia, Sana’a has been continuously inhabited for at least 2,500 years. Situated in a fertile basin over two thousand meters above sea level, the city remained economically and politically important over millennia because it sits on a major communication axis linking the mountains and rich fertile valleys of larger Yemen with the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean. Considered the ancestral heartland of the Arabs, the recognized Islamic heritage of the city allowed it in 1984 to become a recognized UNESCO World Heritage Site. With its 14-meter-tall walls surrounding the inner core of the city, a maze of over 6000 still largely intact multi-story tower houses makes Sana’a unique in the world. Its famous skyline consists of family homes that are at least five, if not eight or nine stories high. Along with these homes, the diverse Muslim population was serviced by more than 100 mosques (and associated evkaf properties) and 14 communal baths (hammams), all built before the 11th century. Reflective of its continued importance to the larger region, the city has seen regular additions to its main administrative and religious studies infrastructure. For instance, the main gates outsiders use to enter Sana’a, the northern Bab al-Shaub and south-facing Bab Al-Yaman, date to the first Ottoman occupation in the 16th century. The highlight of the Islamic city, however, is the Great Mosque (originally built in 633), a short walk from the Bab Al Yaman. A magnificent amalgamation of architectural styles tracing back to the period of the prophet Muhammad, the Grand Mosque’s centrality to the development of Islam as a global religion is confirmed by archeological findings on its grounds and surviving scriptures found in its walls. This includes a famous, so-called Sana’a’ palimpsest, that scholars determine to be one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts. It conjoins non-Islamic fragments with early renditions of verses pre-dating the Translation and final text in Turkish is not part of the original material submitted by author. Editors took liberty with author's original content, inserting references to Iran that contradicts the author's reflections, evident by the fact Iran was never mentioned in the final draft submitted to the editors in Istanbul. |
| Témata: | Ottoman Empire, Islam, Yemen, Sana, Trade, History of Religions, Religionshistoria, Cultural Studies, Kulturstudier, Article in journal, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, text |
| URL: | 2023, 24, s. 128-133 Derin Tarih, 2023, 24, s. 128-133 |
| Dostupnost: | Open access content. Open access content info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| Poznámka: | Turkish |
| Other Numbers: | UPE oai:DiVA.org:su-221815 0000-0003-3591-741x 1428087847 |
| Přispívající zdroj: | UPPSALA UNIV LIBR From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsoai.on1428087847 |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Today the largest and most populous city in Southern Arabia, Sana’a has been continuously inhabited for at least 2,500 years. Situated in a fertile basin over two thousand meters above sea level, the city remained economically and politically important over millennia because it sits on a major communication axis linking the mountains and rich fertile valleys of larger Yemen with the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean. Considered the ancestral heartland of the Arabs, the recognized Islamic heritage of the city allowed it in 1984 to become a recognized UNESCO World Heritage Site. With its 14-meter-tall walls surrounding the inner core of the city, a maze of over 6000 still largely intact multi-story tower houses makes Sana’a unique in the world. Its famous skyline consists of family homes that are at least five, if not eight or nine stories high. Along with these homes, the diverse Muslim population was serviced by more than 100 mosques (and associated evkaf properties) and 14 communal baths (hammams), all built before the 11th century. Reflective of its continued importance to the larger region, the city has seen regular additions to its main administrative and religious studies infrastructure. For instance, the main gates outsiders use to enter Sana’a, the northern Bab al-Shaub and south-facing Bab Al-Yaman, date to the first Ottoman occupation in the 16th century. The highlight of the Islamic city, however, is the Great Mosque (originally built in 633), a short walk from the Bab Al Yaman. A magnificent amalgamation of architectural styles tracing back to the period of the prophet Muhammad, the Grand Mosque’s centrality to the development of Islam as a global religion is confirmed by archeological findings on its grounds and surviving scriptures found in its walls. This includes a famous, so-called Sana’a’ palimpsest, that scholars determine to be one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts. It conjoins non-Islamic fragments with early renditions of verses pre-dating the<br />Translation and final text in Turkish is not part of the original material submitted by author. Editors took liberty with author's original content, inserting references to Iran that contradicts the author's reflections, evident by the fact Iran was never mentioned in the final draft submitted to the editors in Istanbul. |
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