Spanning the Strait : studies in unity in the western Mediterranean / edited by Yuen-Gen Liang [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liang, Yuen-Gen, 1974-

Series:

Special offprint of medieval encounters Spanning the strait

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acculturation--Iberian Peninsula--History.

Acculturation.

Acculturation--Africa, North--History.

Iberian Peninsula--Relations--Africa, North.

Iberian Peninsula.

Africa, North--Relations--Iberian Peninsula.

Africa, North.

Gibraltar, Strait of--History.

Gibraltar, Strait of.

Africa, North--Civilization.

Iberian Peninsula--Civilization.

Africa, North--Book reviews.

Iberian Peninsula--Book reviews.

Gibraltar, Strait of--Book reviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean brings together a multidisciplinary collection of essays that examines the deep connections that bound together the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib in the medieval and early modern periods. Six articles on topics ranging from the eighth-century slave trade to sixteenth-century apocalypticism trace and analyze movement, mutual influence and patterns shared in the face of political, religious, and cultural difference. By transcending traditional disciplinary and temporal divisions, this collection of essays highlights the long history of contact and exchange that united the two sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. A comprehensive introduction by the editors contextualizes the articles within the last half-century of scholarship and salient contemporary trends. Contributors are Adam Gaiser, Linda G. Jones, Hussein Fancy, S.J. Pearce, David Coleman, and Marya T. Green-Mercado.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Unity and Disunity across the Strait of Gibraltar / Yuen-Gen Liang , Abigail Krasner Balbale , Andrew Devereux and Camilo Gómez-Rivas

Slaves and Silver across the Strait of Gibraltar: Politics and Trade between Umayyad Iberia and Khārijite North Africa / Adam Gaiser

The Preaching of the Almohads: Loyalty and Resistance across the Strait of Gibraltar / Linda G. Jones

The Last Almohads: Universal Sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon / Hussein Fancy

“The Types of Wisdom Are Two in Number”: Judah ibn Tibbon’s Quotation from the Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm al-Dīn / S.J. Pearce

Of Corsairs, Converts and Renegades: Forms and Functions of Coastal Raiding on Both Sides of the Far Western Mediterranean / David Coleman

The Mahdī in Valencia: Messianism, Apocalypticism and Morisco Rebellions in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain / Marya T. Green-Mercado

Book Reviews / Clifford R. Backman , Travis Bruce , Patrick Harris , Capucine Nemo-Pekelman , Brenda S. Gardenour Walter , Alexandra Cuffel , Pamela A. Patton and Miguel Ángel Vázquez

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-25664-4

OCLC:

868068666

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004256644 DOI