نقوش خواتم الحكام الأمويين في الأندلس: جمعا وتوثيقا ودراسة

Abstract EN

This study examines the emblematic meaning of the phrases engraved on the rings of the Arab Umayyad rulers who ruled Andalusia for more than two hundred fifty years by integrating a number of interrelated Arabic, Moroccan, and Eastern sources pertaining to these concise ring inscriptions.

The first part of the study focuses on analyzing these inscriptions, foregrounding and explicating their traditional inherent sources, and addressing their underlying meaning along with their primary stylistic features.

This article concludes that the Umayyad rulers in Andalusia were basically following the example of their ancestors in the Eastern part of the Umayyad caliphate, and this was a royal tradition.

Hence, these inscriptions were based on and derived from the Islamic principles circulating throughout the Islamic world in general.

At the same time, their engravings maintained specific features of brevity and concentration, and they were mostly characterized by analogies and imitations.

Further, these engravings avoided linguistic artificiality and quotations and had a tendency of clarity, smoothness, and depth.

The second part of the study traces the rest of the inscriptions and strives to make a collection of them, documenting them and connecting them to the rules who had them in a chronological way.