Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Bennison, Amira K.
• British Academy, issuing body.

Description

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

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 195

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 195.

Subjects

• Spain > Politics and government > To 1479
• Spain > Civilization > 711-1516
• Africa, North > Politics and government
• Power (Social sciences) > Africa, North > History > To 1500
• Spain > History > 711-1516
• Power (Social sciences) > Spain > History > To 1500
• Nasrides
• Africa, North > Civilization
• Africa, North > History > 647-1517
• Beni Marin dynasty

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-5488

ISBN

• 9780197265697 (hbk.)
• 0197265693 (hbk.)

OCLC

864787460

Title

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

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

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Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 195

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 195.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bennison, Amira K., editor.

British Academy, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-5488