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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">steps</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Шаги/Steps</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Shagi / Steps</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2412-9410</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2782-1765</issn><publisher><publisher-name>The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-2-25-32</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">steps-36</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ГОРОДА АНТИЧНОЙ И СРЕДНЕВЕКОВОЙ ЕВРОПЫ: МОДЕЛИ ВОЗНИКНОВЕНИЯ И РАЗВИТИЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>CITIES OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EUROPE: MODELS OF THEIR APPEARANCE AND DEVELOPMENT</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The medieval Muslim interpretation of a Roman municipium: The vision of Mārida (Mérida) in the work of al-idrīsī and al-Ḥimyarī</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>The medieval Muslim interpretation of a Roman municipium: The vision of Mārida (Mérida) in the work of al-idrīsī and al-Ḥimyarī</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5225-7199</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Гомес де Касо Суриага</surname><given-names>Х.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Gómez de Caso Zuriaga</surname><given-names>J.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Хайме Гомес де Касо Суриага - доктор истории античности доцент, департамент истории и философии</p><p>28801 C/ Colegios, 2, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)</p><p>Tel.: +34 (91) 885-44-03</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Jaime Gómez de Caso Zuriaga - Dr. in Ancient History Titular Professor, Department of History and Philosophy</p><p>28801 C/ Colegios, 2, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)</p><p>Tel.: +34 (91) 885-44-03</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">jaime.gomezdecaso@uah.es</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Университет Алькалы</institution><country>Испания</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>University of Alcalá</institution><country>Spain</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2023</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>30</day><month>01</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>9</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>25</fpage><lpage>32</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Гомес де Касо Суриага Х., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Гомес де Касо Суриага Х.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Gómez de Caso Zuriaga J.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/36">https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/36</self-uri><abstract><p>Статья посвящена образу римского прошлого городов Испании, отразившегося в арабских сочинениях, созданных после мусульманского завоевания в VIII в. Познакомившись с римским историко-архитектурным наследием, эти писатели в отсутствие достоверных сведений стремились компенсировать недостаток информации легендами и фантазиями. В данном случае наиболее показательны сочинения объяснительного характера (al-masãlik wa-l-mamãlik). К ним относятся сочинения испано-арабского писателя аль-Идриси (XII в.) и персидского ученого аль-Химьяри (XV в.). Последний, никогда не бывавший в Испании (аль-Андалусе), живо интересовался этой землей и оставил весьма тщательное описание ее городов. Оба писателя отразили образ Мериды, которая являлась важным городом как в римское, так и в вестготское время. Странные интерпретации назначения отдельных зданий Мериды, унаследованных от римского времени (театр, амфитеатр, акведук, форум, триумфальные арки и др.), встречающиеся в сочинении аль-Химьяри, нередко заимствованы из книги аль-Идриси. Предлагаемая аль-Химьяри версия происхождения названия города («резиденция почтенного или благородного человека»: mashkīn ash-sharīf) имеет тот же источник. При этом игнорируются гораздо более обоснованные сведения, содержащиеся в сочинении аль-Рази (Х в.). Главная причина некорректных интерпретаций — отсутствие у арабоязычных авторов представлений о муниципальной жизни римского времени.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article analyzes the image of the Roman past of Hispanic cities, as reﬂected in works created after the Moslem conquest of the 8th century. Writers who wrote in Arabic had no reliable information about Roman architectural inheritance and tried to compensate for this fact by using other sources, such as prejudices, myths, legends and fantasies. Works of the descriptive genre (al-masãlik wa-l-mamãlik) demonstrate this tendency most clearly. The books written by the Arab Hispanic author al-Idrīsī (12th century) and the Persian writer al-Ḥimyarī (15th century) belong to this genre. Al-Ḥimyarī had never been to Spain (al-Andalus) but was very interested in this country and left a very detailed description of it. Both writers reﬂected the image of Merida in their works. This city had great importance in Roman and Visigothic times. Strange interpretations of the functions of some Roman buildings in Merida (theater, amphitheater, aqueduct, forum, triumphal arches and others) found in the work of al-Ḥimyarī were frequently taken from al-Idrīsī. The fantastic interpretation of the origin of the name of Merida (“residence of an honorable or noble man”: mashkīn ashsharīf) suggested by al-Ḥimyarī had the same source. At the same time, much better grounded information included in the work of al-Rāzī (written in the 10th century) was disregarded. The main cause of these incorrect interpretations was a lack of knowledge of Roman municipal life in the case of Arabic writers.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>римский город</kwd><kwd>муниципий</kwd><kwd>арабская географическая литература</kwd><kwd>Мерида</kwd><kwd>аль-Идриси</kwd><kwd>аль-Химьяри</kwd><kwd>аль-Рази</kwd><kwd>римское архитектурное наследие</kwd><kwd>аль-Андалус</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Roman city</kwd><kwd>municipium</kwd><kwd>Arabic geographical literature</kwd><kwd>Merida</kwd><kwd>al-Idrīsī</kwd><kwd>al-Ḥimyarī</kwd><kwd>al-Rāzī</kwd><kwd>Roman architectural heritage</kwd><kwd>al-Andalus</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Alvar, J. (1981). El culto a Isis en Hispania. In J. Caro Baroja et. al. (Eds.). La Religión romana en Hispania. 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