Epigrafía funeraria en al-Andalus (siglos IX-XII)

Abstract

The process of Arabisation and Islamisation in funeral epigraphs first began to emerge in the period of the Emirates. The use of epitaphs became generalised with the advent of the Umayyad caliphate and the culmination of what is known as «social islamisation». These external signs contrasted with the common form or austere and anonymous burials, reflecting first and foremost a process of hierarchisation and social differentiation, diverging in this way from the strictures of the Faqihs regarding the austerity that ought to characterise Muslim burials. This dissociation between theory and practice was a widespread phenomenon throughout the mediaeval Islamic world, which grew with the passage of time, including in periods characterised by a theoretical re-Islamisation of of customs, as in the case of the Almoravids and the Almohads in the Islamic West.

Keywords

• al-Andalus
• Arabisation
• Epigraphs
• Funeral steles
• Islamisation