A comprehensive account of two of the most important empires in medieval North AfricaThis
is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the …

«En la historia de las dinastías hay una lección para los inteligentes y una advertencia para
quien es descuidado y olvidadizo de Dios (…); sobre todo si es una historia aún no reunida …

This paper analyzes how the memorialization and commemoration of early conflicts in
Islamic history influenced the performance and legitimization of jihād, especially on the part …

The first half of the thirteenth century saw substantial political, and above all, territorial
change across the chessboard that comprised the medieval Iberian Peninsula. 1 The …

In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and
cultural patronage of the 'Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a …

The principal aim of this study is to examine the use of charity as a factor of political
legitimation by the ruling elite of al-Andalus in the Umayyad period. Accordingly, it explores …

This dissertation explores the relationship between intellectual networks, royal patronage
and developments in political thought in late medieval Islamic Spain and North Africa. It …

When al-Andalus was about to vanish, a new dynasty–the Banū Naṣr–emerged and
succeeded in ruling over a kingdom that constituted the last stronghold of Islam in the …

This chapter focuses on areas that represent current responses to the events that happened
between approximately 1550 and 1686 in what was then, roughly speaking, the territory of …

For the last 40 years a pivotal debate in Contemporary Peninsular Studies has been the so-
called “Transition Problem”(Stanley), ie, the question of how and to what extent Spain and/or …