الرباطات و المحارس الإسلامية المبكرة في إقليم برقة

الملخص EN

Upon the Islamic conquer of the Barca region, the region became a Ribat and a front base for the Islamic armies heading to Africa.

Given the long coast of the Barca region and the ease of access to it, the governors established a system of defensive forts to monitor marine dangers, and most of these "A Ribatat and Maharis" were established by exploiting the remaining Byzantine fortresses.

The importance of the study lies in dealing with the Ribatat and Maharis in the province of Barca, and showing its architectural characteristics, by addressing two remaining architectural examples in the region.The reason for choosing the topic is due to the scarcity of studies dealing with Islamic Ribat in the Barca region.

The main question is : What are the architectural characteristics of the Ribat in the province of Barca? The study aims to highlight the importance of Islamic Ribatat and Maharis in the region of Barca and analyze its architectural features by studying models about them, whether they were actually discovered or mentioned by some ancient Muslim geographers.

What gives this study its original character is its attempt to establish a history and architectural reference for the study sample.

To achieve the study goals, we assumed that analyzing the writings of geographers and studying a sample of their models helps in studying the history of early Islamic architecture and fortresses in the region of Barca in Libya.

In this study, the researcher will follow the historical and descriptive analytical methodology.

The boundaries of the study : the spatial boundary : the region of Barca in Libya, and the temporal boundary : the first three centuries of the Hijrah.

This study is divided into two parts : a theoretical and historical part dealing with Ribatat in the Barca region, and the second part is a study of some of the discovered models.