Datos sobre una mezquita en la Alcazaba de Málaga

Abstract

News from the 8th century affirm that the famous Syrian jurist and muḥaddiṭcoming from the East, Muˁai wiyya b. Ṣāliḥ al Ḥimṣī founds a mosque at the citadel of Málaga, though such aplain information must be questioned. Nevertheless, what really seems to be obviousis that since the begínning of the 13th century, a congregational mosque exists at the citadel of Málaga, since we have noted at least 5 juṭabāˀ exercising their functíon inside the citadel. The presence of this especific post of citadel preacher, wich on the other hand is relatively usual in several Andalusies towns since the 13th century, seems to confirm the institutional separation of the madīna, with its own mosque of the Friday, unquestíonably the one of the highest rank, from the qaṣaba, being in the centre of the governing functions, fulfilling the assignment of Dār al-Imāra, that ˁAbd al- Bāṣit gives in the 15th century.