Mediterranean period of urbanization, 909 - 1600AD, in Ifriquyah , paradigm of Islamic cities

Paper is a basic investigation at development of cities that researched any sustainable development of cities in very important region of the world . Ifriqya is the most ancient place in the geographical areas of the world which during nine centuries real Islamic movement presents its external form in Islamic urbanization and city development that origin. At the early days of Islamic urbanization and construction oldest and the early Islamic noble cities had been built in the seaside of the west of Mediterranean sea..Process of the Islamic urbanization continued in Ifriqya after evolutionary initiatives that took place in the governments of Aghlabids, Fatimids, Zirids, AL-Moravids, Hammadis and Hafsids. Scholars of Islamic urbanization such as Grunbaom, have mentioned this period as a Mediterranean time of Islamic urbanization. There are any material for subject of paper and any researches by Islamic and European scholars and orientalists as Toynbee and in postdoc thesis have dealt with Hafsids’s culture and civilization of urbanization in Ifriqya .This evolutionary movement in Ifriqya reached to its aim in the Hafsids period and Hafsids’s urbanization linked art of urbanization from east and west of the world in medieval . Transferring traditional capital city of Ifriqya from Kairouan to Tunisia, Hafsids dynasty began a new period of Islamic urbanization, construction and architecture, and showed nine centuries experiences of Islamic urbanization. Compiling first statute book for urbanization , by a jurisprudent architect, Ibn al-Rami, is a result of successful evolution in Islamic urbanization and successful capital city selection by his nations . Hafsids added new elements to the Islamic urbanization, paper has answered to these questions: Are the Islamic urbanization evolutions and eloquences in Ifriqya, noble creativity from Aghlabids dynasty to Hafsids? Or have them affected artistically by analogy and ancient traditions of Ifriqya and Tunisia? How much does every state of Ifriqya share in presentation and evolution of Islamic cities and urbanization? As theory ;What is The dignity of Islamic urbanization in the evaluation of city in passage of history ? and as a Hypothesis , building the Chain of capital cities in Ifriqyah , is pure evidence for justification the existence of special paradigm of urbanization accomplished by six states and local dynasty of Ifriqyah from 909 to 1600 .AD ,this historical phenomenon named in framework of historiography.

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Mediterranean city ، Tunisia ، Kairouan ، Mahdiyah ، Ibn al-Rami