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317: 123: 260: 394: 17: 483: 206: 146:, early Almohad architecture was much more restrained in its ornamentation, focusing its attention on overall architectural forms and proportions, rather than on detailed surface decoration. Earlier motifs were refined and were given a grander scale. While surface ornament still remained important, architects strove for a balance between decorated surfaces and empty spaces, allowing the interaction of light and shadows across carved surfaces to play a role. 1098: 2010: 2023: 340:. The Almohad caliphs also constructed multiple country estates just outside the main cities where they resided, continuing a tradition that existed under the Almoravids. The best-known examples of these estates were centered around large water basins or reservoirs that sustained orchards of fruit trees and other plants. Some of them are referred to as 437:(for which the enormous unfinished mosque of the Hassan Tower was also intended). While never finished, this project created the current outer walls of the historic center of Rabat, along with multiple gates such as Bab er-Rouah and the ceremonial main gate of the Kasbah of the Udayas. In Seville, the Almohads built the 192:
rather than stone. These two materials were relatively cheap, readily available at most sites, and already widely used in the preceding centuries. Almohad architects refined both the manufacturing process of these materials and their on-site assembly, making the execution of numerous and ambitious
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in the southern/southeastern wall) and the aisle running along the qibla wall itself were usually wider than the others and were highlighted with distinctive arches and greater decoration. This layout, already present in Almoravid mosques, is often referred to as the "T-plan" by art historians
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of Marrakesh was particularly influential and set a style that was repeated, with minor elaborations, in the following Marinid period. The most famous minarets of this time, however, are the minarets of the Kutubiyya Mosque (begun in 1147 by
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in Rabat. These gates employed varying decorative motifs arranged in concentric semi-circles around the arch of the gate, all of which was in turn framed inside an outer rectangular band with other motifs. This style remained evident in
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of Almohad mosques also established the standard form and style of subsequent minarets in the region, with a square base and two-tiered shaft covered in polylobed arch and
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arches inside mosques also evolved into richer and more monumental forms in the great ceremonial stone gates of Almohad architecture such as Bab Agnaou in Marrakesh and
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In addition to continuing the integration of Moroccan and Andalusi artistic traditions, some currents in Almohad architecture may also reflect influences from
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Orihuela, Antonio (2021). "From the Private to the Public Space: Domestic and Urban Architecture of Islamic Granada". In Boloix-Gallardo, Bárbara (ed.).
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construction projects possible. According to scholar Felix Arnold, during the Almohad period "construction became an industry on a scale not seen since
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The Almohads were also prolific builders of fortifications and forts across their realm. They were responsible for building (or rebuilding) the
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there), while Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur embarked on the construction of a vast new capital and citadel on its south side called
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halls divided by rows of arches that create a repetitive visual effect. However, the aisle or "nave" leading towards the
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in Cordoba is believed to be an originally Almohad structure designed to defend the river and the city's
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mosques are often considered the prototypes of later Moroccan and Andalusi mosques, although the
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to cover rooms in military structures, as exemplified by Almohad-era constructions in the
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period preceding it, the Almohad period is considered one of the most formative stages of
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Maroc Almoravide et Almohade: Architecture et décors au temps des conquérants, 1055-1269
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La médina de Marrakech: Formation des espaces urbains d'une ancienne capitale du Maroc
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which dates from 1220 to 1221 and remains a landmark of the city today. Likewise, the
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gardens both developed from such Almohad creations. In Seville, the remains of the
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shared across these territories, continuing some of the trends of the preceding
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garden. Examples of these have been found in several courtyards in the
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corresponds to a period from the 12th to early 13th centuries when the
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and had also appeared in Andalusi architecture such as the
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in 1150–1151 (after having destroyed an earlier Almoravid
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Example of Almohad decorative motifs in carved stone on
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In general, Almohad architecture was built mostly in
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of Seville (part of a Great Mosque begun in 1171 by
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Index


Kutubiyya Mosque
Marrakesh
Almohads
Maghreb
Morocco
Algeria
al-Andalus
Spain
Portugal
Moorish (or western Islamic) architecture
Almoravid
Almoravid architecture
Almoravid
Moroccan
Moorish architecture
Fes
Marrakesh
Rabat
Seville
Taza
Tinmel

Bab Oudaya
Taifas
Caliphal
al-Andalus
Algeria
Tunisia
Ifriqiya

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