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Reseña de los libros publicados por Diego Melo Carrasco: Las alianzas y negociaciones del sultán: Un recorrido por la historia de las "relaciones internacionales" del sultanato nazarí de Granada (siglos XIII-XV), Murcia, Editum, 2015; Compendio de cartas, tratados y noticias de paces y treguas entre Granada, Castilla y Aragón, Murcia, Editum, 2016

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- Diplomatic History, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Islam
- by John Tolan
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- Cultural Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Islam

Suddenly Don Quijote doubts his squire’s embassy. It would be miraculous for Sancho to have returned in just over three days because El Toboso is more than thirty leagues away, seventy-five miles or one hundred and twenty-five kilometers... more

- by John Tolan
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- Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Communication
- by Oğuz Acar
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- History, Muslim Spain, Medieval Spain
- by Serafín Olcoz Yanguas
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- Muslim Spain, Medieval Spain, Spanish Reconquest, Reconquista

This study discusses al-Andalusian prose on nature in the periods of Muluk al-Tawacif and al-Murabitin in order to fill a gap in literature studies that focus solely on the poetical part of nature. The Arab Andalusian literature (verses and prose) had achieved an outstanding achievement in these two periods. Therefore, the researcher tries to examine the prose texts on nature that were produced by the writers of those periods, study the genres of prose on nature, highlight the backgrounds of the writers, clarify literary styles and, expose the creativity and ingenuity in these texts. This study relies on two main methods, inductive and analytical. It is concluded from this study that the Andalusian prose was at its climax in the hands of great writers in those two periods. Nature was mostly described in all genres of prose; the most famous are the letters. These literary genres have good quality in the structure of the prose, expression and composition, imagination and literary images, and rhythm .All these elements made those prose distinguished literature. In addition, the emergence of new topics also shows the outstanding talent of the Andalusian writers in describing nature in their prose texts.

- by Alberto Raúl Esteban Ribas
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- History, Military History, Catalan Studies, Medieval History

"Tarij Mayurqa" de Ibn Amira al-Majzumí de Alzira (1186-1260) es la crónica musulmana en árabe de la conquista de Mallorca realizada por Jaime I el Conquistador entre 1229 y 1232. Hasta el año 2001 se creia que esta obra se habia perdido para siempre. La última noticia que se tenía de ella, junto a varios extractos de sus capítulos, se hallaba en la obra de al-Maqqari (1578-1632) "Nafh al-tib 'an gusn al-Andalus al-ratib" (efluvio del perfume de la lozana rama de al-Andalus). En 2001, el prócer imaratí Jumua Al Majid encontró una copia manuscrita de la obra del siglo XIII en una "záuiya" (instituto de enseñanza islámico tradicional) en Tinduf (Argelia). El profesor Mohamed Ben Ma'mar de la Universidad de Orán (Argelia) realizó la edición crítica del manuscrito en 2007. El Dr. Nicolás Roser Nebot procedió a la traducción al catalán de la obra en 2008 y al castellano en 2009.
"Ta'rij Mayurqa" (Historia de Mallorca) aporta una serie de datos inéditos sobre los sucesos que se desenvolvieron durante la conquista de la isla de Mallorca por parte del Reino de Aragón. Algunos de esos datos confirman los registrados por las crónicas catalanas (entre 40 y 100 años posteriores a "Ta'rij Mayurqa"), sobre todo los referentes a los sucesos bélicos, y desmienten otros, como el trato benévolo de Jaime I a los vencidos, en particular, al valí de Mallorca, Abu Yahya, último gobernante almohade y musulmán de la isla.

- by Nicolás Roser Nebot
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- Al-Andalus, Islamic History, Muslim Spain, Al Andalus (Islamic History)

Reinterpreting the story of Sultan Boabdil and his surrender of Granada in 1491 CE -- and the end of the 750-year-old Muslim rule in Iberia -- is the subject of Elizabeth Drayson's The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule... more

Reinterpreting the story of Sultan Boabdil and his surrender of
Granada in 1491 CE -- and the end of the 750-year-old Muslim rule in
Iberia -- is the subject of Elizabeth Drayson's The Moor's Last Stand: How
Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End.

- by Sevket Hylton Akyildiz
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- Islamic Studies, Medieval Europe, Muslim Spain, Medieval Islamic History
- by Courtney Ann Stewart
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- Morocco, Muslim Spain
- by Arturo Sanchez Sanz
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- Religion, History, Ancient History, Sociology

This is an excerpt of Robert W. Lebling's translation into English of Gonzague de Rey's "Les invasions des Sarrasins en Provence pendant le VIIIe, le IXe, et le Xe, siècle" (1878) as reprinted by Editions Jeanne Laffitte in 2001. For the complete translation, contact Robert W. Lebling. The complete book, in paperback and Kindle versions, is available at Amazon.com.

- by Robert W Lebling
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- Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval France, Muslim Spain

It is remarkable that, within a single century, the Muslims, from their humble abode of the harsh deserts of Arabia, conquered not only much of the Middle East, Persia, North Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula, but also, parts of the... more

- by Obaidur Rahman
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- History, European History, Jewish Studies, Medieval History

Beyond being the earliest clear interaction between Pisa and Barcelona, the Balearic Crusade was also one of the earliest Iberian extensions of the crusading movement. Afterward, Pisa abandoned its belli-cose policy toward Western Mediterranean Muslim cities in favor of friendly diplomatic relations and went from protecting Christian cities on the Tyrrhenian to competing aggressively and warring against them. Simultaneously, Catalonia built a navy for campaigns against Muslim targets, sought papal benefits for such campaigns, and formed international coalitions for their execution, all of which helped solidify Catalonia as a political unit and pushed it towards more international commercial integration. Many of these shifts have been noted before but rarely tied to the Balearic Crusade; this article seeks to rectify this scholarly lacuna.

- by Matthew E Parker
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- Medieval History, Crusades, Maritime History, Medieval Iberian History
- by Alejandro García-Sanjuán
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- History, Archaeology, Islamic Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology

"This discussion of the pyxis invites a meditation on the ways in which subjects and objects acquire meanings and exchange positions within the web of socio-symbolic relations. In Fatal Strategies Baudrillard wages an assault..."
"...Just like the potter, the art historian’s creative process should not exclusively focus on mapping variations on the surface of his object, but rather on bringing to light the generative void that constitutes its essence, on creating an epistemological structure that reflects its perceived meaning, and on making it visible by delineating its contours with words. It cannot be too often repeated…."
CONTENTS
1. 357/967-968
2. Princes and Lions
3. The Lion and the Bull
4. The Palm Tree and the Eagle
5.Taslib + Tashbih
6. Fatal Strategies: Subjects (in)to Objetcts
7. The Void and the Vessel

- by Francisco Prado-Vilar
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- Iconography, Medieval Studies, Gift Exchange, Medieval Islam

Muṣāhara (affinity/relation by marriage) represented one of the essential distinctions of the ruling elite of fourteenth-century Granada. Ibn al-Khaṭīb understood its importance for life in Granada and he felt the need to mention it whenever two people were related by marriage. His perception has been taken as one of the most fundamental for historical research, as he drew on his personal experience in Granada. This study first defines the concept of the ruling elite of fourteenth-century Granada. Within this group, the concept of muṣāhara as understood by Ibn al-Khaṭīb is further elaborated. The definition of muṣāhara is followed by the description of its actual use among the families close to the office of the vizier (wazīr) and by Ibn al-Khaṭīb himself. The history of one of these families (al-Fihrī) has been hailed as an exceptional example of the “ruling elite family” that included contemporaries and adversaries of Ibn al-Khaṭīb. The example of the al-Fihrī family shows how strong and active their position was during the rule of every fourteenth-century emir. Consequently, this study demonstrates that the extensive Granadan families similar to those known from the fifteenth century had existed and cooperated with each other before this time.

- by Josef Ženka
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- Medieval History, Medieval Islam, Medieval Iberian History, Islamic Studies
- by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
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- Religion, Abrahamic Religions, Gnosticism, Comparative Religion

This article revisits the role of women in the Andalusian literature and culture of the period between the 8 th through the 15 th centuries C.E. Drawing on some Western sexual-textual political models of analysis, the article reexamines the literary methods and devices employed by selected Andalusian women poets to demonstrate their intellectual equality with men. Moreover, by providing a sexual-textual political reading of some of the women's poems and/or the anecdotes (akhbār) about them, the article demonstrates how these women exerted their social and political agency in a male-dominated society. The article seeks to bolster an argument that the frequent mention of the preponderance of women poets—their names and the anecdotes about them— suggests the existence of a female literary sub-culture in al-Andalus that was more vibrant than has been documented in the male-authored classical Arabic texts.

- by Merve Çınar
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- Al-Andalus, Muslim Spain, Kadın çalışmaları, Endülüs Tarihi

This study is based on a popular assumption that there is a similarity between Abu Bakr al-Sanawbari (A.H 334) and Ibn Khafajah al- Andalusi (A.H 533) in their poetry about nature. Therefore, the researcher tries to make a comparative study on the nature of their poetry, particularly, examining the beauty, the ingenuity and the skills of the two poets, as well as tracing the influence al-Sanawbari had on Ibn Khafajah and attempting to highlight the similarities and differences between the two personalities. To complete this study, an analytical method is adopted based on references related to the topic. It is concluded from this study that poetry about nature was at its climax in the hands of Abu Bakr al-Sanawbari and Ibn Khafajah al- Andalusi. Both of them shared the same methods and approaches in poetry writing, especially in the poetical structures, meanings and language styles due to the influence of the environment that they lived in. Nevertheless, they differ from each other in terms of imaginations, emotions, literary styles, as well as the rhythm of the poetry, which deny the possibility of imitations of each other. In addition, each of these characteristics refers to the unique qualities of each poet.

- by HISHOMUDIN AHMAD
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- Arabic Literature, Arabic Poetry, Classical Arabic Poetry, Muslim Spain

The Reconquista left unprecedentedly large numbers of Muslims living under Christian rule. Since Islamic religious and legal institutions had been developed by scholars who lived under Muslim rule and who assumed this condition as a given, how Muslims should proceed in the absence of such rule became the subject of extensive intellectual investigation. In Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista, Alan Verskin examines the way in which the Iberian school of Mālikī law developed in response to the political, theological, and practical difficulties posed by the Reconquista. He shows how religious concepts, even those very central to the Islamic religious experience, could be rethought and reinterpreted in order to respond to the changing needs of Muslims. Includes a complete annotated translation of al-Wansharisi's Asna al-Matajir and his Marbella fatwa.

- by Alan Verskin
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- Islamic Law, Muslim Spain, Mudejares, Mudejars
- by Gonzalo Linares Matás
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- Religion, History, Ancient History, European History
- by Justin Stearns
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- Historiography, Al-Andalus, Muslim Spain, Nostalgia

Published in Quaestio Insularis 16 (2015)

- by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
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- Muslim Spain, Medieval Brittany, Al-Bakri

Muslim al-Andalus during the middle ages was more a part of the European world than the Muslim world.

- by V. Kerry INMAN
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- Ancient History, Central European history, Muslim Spain, Visigothic Spain
- by Serafín Olcoz Yanguas
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- Muslim Spain, Medieval Spain, Kingdom of Navarra
- by Mohamad Ballan
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- History, Medieval Iberian History, Al-Andalus, Umayyads (Islamic History)

The present article aims to show the continuity of the Genoese of the Kingdom of Grenade from the end of the Muslim era to the beginning of the Castilian times. To do so it makes use of the prosopographical method, comparing documentation from national archives and notarial deeds from Cordoba and Grenade. Thus, through the personal development of Ambrogio Spinola we study aspects such as the commercial and financial activities held by the Genoese mercantile community, paying special attention to the connection with the High Guadalquivir through the terrestrial border; the purchase of proprieties in Grenadian soil, a completely hitherto unknown fact which involves deep implications about the evolution of the Nasrid society; it is established the chronology of their presence in the emirate during the War of Grenade; and after the return we outline their adaptation to the new social, political and economical reality, with the diversification of strategies, the wish to integrate in local society and keeping in touch with Castilian and Grenadian elites. Therefore it emerges a completely unknown image, which answers some classic questions of the specific historiography and enriches the knowledge of the Genoese presence in Grenade.

- by Raúl González Arévalo
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- Islamic Law, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Islam
- by Francesca Mattei and +2
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- Muslim Spain, Holy Roman Empire, Charles V, Renaissance and Baroque Architectural Drawings

This article delineates some of the historical characteristics of medieval Iberia that make postcolonial studies especially appealing for a renovation of this multi‐disciplinary field, and it suggests specific openings for future research inflected by postcolonial studies. By discussing in particular the concepts of mimicry and transculturation, this piece exemplifies avenues for nuancing the notion of cultural contact, for rethinking the overused reliance on medieval Iberia’s “three cultures,” and it redirects attention to the fields of Latin American and colonial studies as sources of crucial theoretical debates.

- by Nadia R. Altschul
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- Postcolonial Studies, Transculturation, Muslim Spain, Latin America
- by José Soto Chica
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- Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Muslim Spain, Spain (History)
- by Otto Zwartjes
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- Medieval Literature, Muslim Spain, Strophic Poetry
- by John Tolan
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- Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Historiography, Jewish - Christian Relations

The deprivation of liberty is one of the defining components of Christendom-Islam relationships in the Medieval Mediterranean. In this context the Kingdom of Granada is a perfect framework within which to study a frontier society both in the Nasrid and the Castilian periods, in which the daily presence of prisoners and slaves show social and economic features common to the rest of the Western Mediterranean and also specific traits related to the particular historical characteristics of the Iberian Peninsula. In line with the current trend that supports the joint study of captivity and slavery overcoming the juridical differences that divide them, this article collects the state of knowledge on the matter. It reviews the classic bibliography and moves forward to include the latest studies in an attempt to deal with the subject from an integrating perspective. Given that very few Late Medieval Mediterranean territories offer the documentary richness and the economic, social and structural complexity of the Kingdom of Granada, there emerges a panorama of great clarity for the question under study.

- by Raúl González Arévalo
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- Modern History, Islamic Law, Medieval History, Early Modern History

In the year 1492, the King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella captured Grenada from the Moors. The city surrendered on January 7, 1492 and the Catholic king and queen immediately ordered the expulsion of all Jews within three months’ time and the expropriation of all their wealth. The expulsion of this intelligent, cultured, and industrious ethnic and religious group was prompted only, in part, by the greed of the king and queen and the intensified nationalism of the people who had just brought the crusade against the Muslim Moors to a glorious close. The real motive was the religious zeal of the Church, the monarchies in presence, and the masses. Accordingly, the equivalent of 250 000 Jews were thrown in merchant ships and sent to other parts of Europe and North Africa, with no food or means to start a new life. It is considered one of the most inhuman mass expulsion in human history of people on the ground of their religious affiliation.

El estudio preteode analizar el periodo de las terceras taifas en el nuevonmanuscrito de la crónica de !bn al-Jatib A‛māl/I‛māl al-a‛lām fī man būyi‛a qabla iḥtilām min mulūk al-islām wa mā yaǧarru min šuǧūn al-kalām. El manuscrito complementa las ediciones existeotes del segundo volumen y en diez páginas agrega ocho nuevos capítulos que comprenden los años 1230 a 1314.

- by Josef Ženka
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- Medieval Iberian History, Al-Andalus, Muslim Spain, Al Andalus (Islamic History)

Las Germanías, rebelión en el seno de la sociedad valenciana, fue un movimiento que contó, mayoritariamente, con el apoyo de las gentes del Reino, por más que hubo intentos de sumar refuerzos extemos. Entre las reivindicaciones de la Germanía constaba la desaparición del estamento nobiliario y su sustitución por capitanes agermanados que, en principio, defendían la causa popular. No obstante, en aquel momento el pueblo lo constituían también los mudéjares y los mudéjares vasallos de los señores. Pero los mudéjares, súbditos fieles al rey, junto con los musulmanes de las morerías de las principales ciudades valencianas y los vasallos de señoríos, no se vieron representados por los agermanados, aunque no fue estos impedimiento para acometer sus propias acciones.

- by Jorge de Juan Ares and +1
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- Archaeology, Islamic Archaeology, Medieval Islam, Early Medieval Archaeology

This paper aims to study a hitherto bad known aspect, the position of the Republic of Florence in the Nasri sultanate. To achieve this we shall take as reference the commercial mechanisms developed by the Tuscan merchants in their relationships with the Western Islam between the Thirteenth and the Fifteenth Centuries, underlying the particularities observed in Grenade. Last, data about the Florentine galley system’s commerce will serve to offer a provisional conclusion.

This article covers in detail the bibliographical production on the Italian differential presence in the south of the Iberian Peninsula in the late medieval centuries. Following the academic conventions of a long-established historiographical tradition, it tackles the subject by taking into consideration the political realities in both peninsulae, Castile and Grenade on the one hand, and the Italian Mercantile Republics on the other, paying special attention to Genoa, Venice and Florence. Lastly, it suggests new research lines from underused sources and the most recent trends in historiography.