The articulation of power in medieval Iberia and the Maghrib / edited by Amira K. Bennison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bennison, Amira K., editor.

British Academy, issuing body.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 195.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 195

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beni Marin dynasty.

Power (Social sciences)--Africa, North--History--To 1500.

Power (Social sciences).

Nasrides.

Power (Social sciences)--Spain--History--To 1500.

History.

Spain--History--711-1516.

Spain.

Spain--Civilization--711-1516.

Civilization.

Spain--Politics and government--To 1479.

Politics and government.

Africa, North--History--647-1517.

Africa, North.

North Africa.

Africa, North--Civilization.

Africa, North--Politics and government.

Political science.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 263 pages : maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction / Amira K. Bennison

Islam and the 'great divergence' : the case of the Moroccan Marīnid Empire, 1269-1465 CE / Maya Shatzmiller

Writing history as a political act : Ibn Khaldūn, ʻAṣabiyya and legitimacy / Allen J. Fromherz

The genealogical legitimization of the Naṣrid dynasty : the alleged Anṣārī origins of the Banū Naṣr / Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo

Jihād as a means of political legitimation in thirteenth-century Sharq al-Andalus / Abigail Krasner Balbale

Hounouring the Prophet's family : a comparison of the approaches to political legitimacy of Abūʼl-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Marīnī and Aḥmad al-Manṣūr al-Saʻdī / Stephen Cory

ʻAzafid Ceuta, Mawlid al-Nabī and the development of Marīnid strategies of legitimation / James A.O.C. Brown

On Muḥammad V, Ibn al-Khaṭīb and Sufism / Cynthia Robinson and Amalia Zomeño

Hospitality, charity and political legitimacy in pre-modern Morocco / Mohamed El Mansour

Drums, banners and baraka : symbols of authority during the first century of Marīnid rule, 1250-1350 / Amira K. Bennison

The ransom industry and the expectation of refuge on the western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian frontier, 1085-1350 / Camilo Gómez-Rivas

Nomadic populations and the challenge to political legitimacy : three cases from the medieval Islamic west / Russell Hopley.

Notes:

Based on a workshop held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in September 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780197265697

0197265693

OCLC:

864787460