D Fairchild Ruggles
Biographic Data
| ID | 1344335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Fairchild Ruggles |
| GIVEN NAMES | D Fairchild |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruggles |
| SIGNATURE | RUGGLES D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Madinat al-Zahra
Medievalists in the Mirror
In 1925, the Medieval Academy was hastily incorporated to launch a journal whose title, Speculum, mirrored a distinctively American medievalism. Rooted in an ideology of “Anglo-Saxon” exceptionalism dating back to the colonial era, this engagement with the medieval past was both strengthened and complicated by the emergence of the United States as a global power. By 1920, the devastation of European cultural patrimony and intellectual networks op…
Visible and Invisible Bodies
Whereas reliance on official texts such as chronicles often leads modern historians to overlook women, the built works of female patrons can provide a valuable historical source because they stand publicly for female patrons who were themselves unseen. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine Damascus and Cairo without the visually prominent tombs and pious foundations of the otherwise invisible Fatimid and Ayyubid women. Among the latter was Shajar al…
At the Margins of Architectural and Landscape History
The Rajput princes of South Asia in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries built beautiful palaces with gardens and commissioned manuscript paintings that rivaled those of their Mughal contemporaries. Although the Hindu Rajputs and Muslim Mughals were variously allies and foes, neither political relations nor religious faith prevented artistic exchanges from occurring between them. Just as the Mughals embraced and internalized Indic forms such as …
Ideologizing the Past
Because the ideological landscape of the present does not match the ideological configurations of the past, the past and present of national monuments often collide in ways that complicate their utility as “patrimony” and “heritage.” In Spain, Islamic monuments such as the Alhambra Palace (built in Granada by Nasrid monarchs in the 13th and 14th centuries) exist in the present as popular tourism sites and points of entry for an imaginative encoun…
La estratigrafía del olvido
As with any major monument\nthat figures prominently in architectural\nhistory, the Great Mosque of Cordoba has\na classic architectural story behind it.\nThis story attracts little attention in the\nUSA, where the medieval pasis is of little\ninterest because their national narrative\ndoes not depend on it. On the other hand,\nin Europe, where a recent exhibition\ncatalogue on Islamic art concluded with the\nquestion, Que representa hay al-Andal…
Intangible Heritage Embodied
Cultural Heritage and Human Rights
Cultural heritage and human rights
Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty
Research Article| January 01 2004 Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty: Race, Genealogy, and Acculturation in al-Andalus D. Fairchild Ruggles D. Fairchild Ruggles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 65–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-34-1-65 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India
Champaner-Pavagadh, 47 kilometres, northeast of Baroda in Gujarat, India received the World Heritage status in 2004. The site is immense, spreading over six square kilometres, and covers the partially buried fifteenth century Islamic capital dty of Champaner and the sacred hill, Pavagadh, a regional pilgrim centre to the Hindus. Small communities live amidst ruins in Champaner, farming and grazing the available land, and on plateaus of Pavagadh h…
The Yamuna Riverfront, India
Cultural traditions encompass specific modes of visuality. Islamic and Hindu ways of seeing are described in terms of their inscription upon the cultural landscape of India. The historic Yamuna riverfront at Agra, one-time capital of the Mughal empire, is compared with the riverfront at Braj, sacred to the Hindus for its association with the god Krishna. The land-water interface at Braj is marked by steps that allow access to the river for bathin…
Córdoba (i)
Seville
Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain
Islamic gardens, with their waterways and beds of plants and trees, are generally regarded as an earthly reflection of paradise. D. Fairchild Ruggles offers a different interpretation, contending that the palace garden was primarily an environmental, economic and political construct. She discusses three aspects of medieval Islamic Spain: the landscape and agricultural transformation documented in Arabic scientific literature, the formation of the…
Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Garden History represents a variety of approaches to vision in the garden. The essays here examine the problem of site and sight as central to the study of gardens. In defining the scope of this issue, we have deliberately chosen chronologically and geographically diverse examples of gardens; the areas of inquiry range from the gardens of Achaemenid Iran and Republican Rome to pre- and post-colonial America by…
The Mirador in Abbasid and Hispano-Umayyad Garden Typology
The Mirador in Abbasid and Hispano-Umayyad Garden Typology
Madinat al-Zahra) , the most outstanding example of Hispano-Umayyad palace architecture, was built on the slope of a mountain west of Cordoba in order to exploit the views this elevated site offered. Along with the ring of suburban palaces surrounding the Umayyad capital of Cordoba, Madinat al-Zahra) has often been compared to Abbasid Samarra, a 35-kilometer stretch of palaces built in the middle of the ninth century along the Tigris River outsid…
Letters of Negroes, Largely Personal and Private [Part 6]
Letters to Antislavery Workers and Agencies [Part 4]
Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty
Research Article| January 01 2004 Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty: Race, Genealogy, and Acculturation in al-Andalus D. Fairchild Ruggles D. Fairchild Ruggles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 65–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-34-1-65 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India
Champaner-Pavagadh, 47 kilometres, northeast of Baroda in Gujarat, India received the World Heritage status in 2004. The site is immense, spreading over six square kilometres, and covers the partially buried fifteenth century Islamic capital dty of Champaner and the sacred hill, Pavagadh, a regional pilgrim centre to the Hindus. Small communities live amidst ruins in Champaner, farming and grazing the available land, and on plateaus of Pavagadh h…
The Yamuna Riverfront, India
Cultural traditions encompass specific modes of visuality. Islamic and Hindu ways of seeing are described in terms of their inscription upon the cultural landscape of India. The historic Yamuna riverfront at Agra, one-time capital of the Mughal empire, is compared with the riverfront at Braj, sacred to the Hindus for its association with the god Krishna. The land-water interface at Braj is marked by steps that allow access to the river for bathin…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Garden History represents a variety of approaches to vision in the garden. The essays here examine the problem of site and sight as central to the study of gardens. In defining the scope of this issue, we have deliberately chosen chronologically and geographically diverse examples of gardens; the areas of inquiry range from the gardens of Achaemenid Iran and Republican Rome to pre- and post-colonial America by…
Letters to Antislavery Workers and Agencies [Part 4]
Letters of Negroes, Largely Personal and Private [Part 6]
The Mirador in Abbasid and Hispano-Umayyad Garden Typology
Madinat al-Zahra) , the most outstanding example of Hispano-Umayyad palace architecture, was built on the slope of a mountain west of Cordoba in order to exploit the views this elevated site offered. Along with the ring of suburban palaces surrounding the Umayyad capital of Cordoba, Madinat al-Zahra) has often been compared to Abbasid Samarra, a 35-kilometer stretch of palaces built in the middle of the ninth century along the Tigris River outsid…
The Mirador in Abbasid and Hispano-Umayyad Garden Typology
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Garden History represents a variety of approaches to vision in the garden. The essays here examine the problem of site and sight as central to the study of gardens. In defining the scope of this issue, we have deliberately chosen chronologically and geographically diverse examples of gardens; the areas of inquiry range from the gardens of Achaemenid Iran and Republican Rome to pre- and post-colonial America by…
Córdoba (i)
Seville
Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain
Islamic gardens, with their waterways and beds of plants and trees, are generally regarded as an earthly reflection of paradise. D. Fairchild Ruggles offers a different interpretation, contending that the palace garden was primarily an environmental, economic and political construct. She discusses three aspects of medieval Islamic Spain: the landscape and agricultural transformation documented in Arabic scientific literature, the formation of the…
Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia
Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty
Research Article| January 01 2004 Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty: Race, Genealogy, and Acculturation in al-Andalus D. Fairchild Ruggles D. Fairchild Ruggles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 65–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-34-1-65 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India
Champaner-Pavagadh, 47 kilometres, northeast of Baroda in Gujarat, India received the World Heritage status in 2004. The site is immense, spreading over six square kilometres, and covers the partially buried fifteenth century Islamic capital dty of Champaner and the sacred hill, Pavagadh, a regional pilgrim centre to the Hindus. Small communities live amidst ruins in Champaner, farming and grazing the available land, and on plateaus of Pavagadh h…
The Yamuna Riverfront, India
Cultural traditions encompass specific modes of visuality. Islamic and Hindu ways of seeing are described in terms of their inscription upon the cultural landscape of India. The historic Yamuna riverfront at Agra, one-time capital of the Mughal empire, is compared with the riverfront at Braj, sacred to the Hindus for its association with the god Krishna. The land-water interface at Braj is marked by steps that allow access to the river for bathin…
Cultural Heritage and Human Rights
Cultural heritage and human rights
Intangible Heritage Embodied
La estratigrafía del olvido
As with any major monument\nthat figures prominently in architectural\nhistory, the Great Mosque of Cordoba has\na classic architectural story behind it.\nThis story attracts little attention in the\nUSA, where the medieval pasis is of little\ninterest because their national narrative\ndoes not depend on it. On the other hand,\nin Europe, where a recent exhibition\ncatalogue on Islamic art concluded with the\nquestion, Que representa hay al-Andal…
Ideologizing the Past
Because the ideological landscape of the present does not match the ideological configurations of the past, the past and present of national monuments often collide in ways that complicate their utility as “patrimony” and “heritage.” In Spain, Islamic monuments such as the Alhambra Palace (built in Granada by Nasrid monarchs in the 13th and 14th centuries) exist in the present as popular tourism sites and points of entry for an imaginative encoun…
At the Margins of Architectural and Landscape History
The Rajput princes of South Asia in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries built beautiful palaces with gardens and commissioned manuscript paintings that rivaled those of their Mughal contemporaries. Although the Hindu Rajputs and Muslim Mughals were variously allies and foes, neither political relations nor religious faith prevented artistic exchanges from occurring between them. Just as the Mughals embraced and internalized Indic forms such as …
Visible and Invisible Bodies
Whereas reliance on official texts such as chronicles often leads modern historians to overlook women, the built works of female patrons can provide a valuable historical source because they stand publicly for female patrons who were themselves unseen. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine Damascus and Cairo without the visually prominent tombs and pious foundations of the otherwise invisible Fatimid and Ayyubid women. Among the latter was Shajar al…
Medievalists in the Mirror
In 1925, the Medieval Academy was hastily incorporated to launch a journal whose title, Speculum, mirrored a distinctively American medievalism. Rooted in an ideology of “Anglo-Saxon” exceptionalism dating back to the colonial era, this engagement with the medieval past was both strengthened and complicated by the emergence of the United States as a global power. By 1920, the devastation of European cultural patrimony and intellectual networks op…
Madinat al-Zahra
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