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Des églises byzantines converties à l'islam? Quelques mosquées ibadites du djebel Nafûsa (Libye)

par Prevost, Virginie
Référence Revue de l'histoire des religions, 229, 3, page (325-347)
Publication Publié, 2012

Article révisé par les pairs

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Résumé :

The majority of the Berbers of lebel Nafûsa were Christian when they overwhelmingly adopted the Ibadi doctrine at the end of the first half of the eighth century. This region still contains numerous mosques which bear names with Christian connotations, referring to the apostles or evidently derived from the Latin ecclesia. The /badi sources lead us to believe that they are Byzantine churches transformed into mosques. However, if the Christian origin of the building obviously appears in one of the examples visited, most of the other mosques have without a doubt no link with old churches. Their names only recall the memory of the Christian past of the region.