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Spanning the Strait : Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean.
Title:
Spanning the Strait : Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean.
Author:
Liang, Yuen-Gen.
ISBN:
9789004256644
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Unity and Disunity across the Strait of Gibraltar -- Slaves and Silver across the Strait of Gibraltar: Politics and Trade between Umayyad Iberia and Khārijite North Africa -- The Preaching of the Almohads: Loyalty and Resistance across the Strait of Gibraltar -- The Last Almohads: Universal Sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon -- "The Types of Wisdom Are Two in Number": Judah ibn Tibbon's Quotation from the Iḥyā' 'ulūm al-Dīn -- Of Corsairs, Converts and Renegades: Forms and Functions of Coastal Raiding on Both Sides of the Far Western Mediterranean, 1490-1540 -- The Mahdī in Valencia: Messianism, Apocalypticism and Morisco Rebellions in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain -- Book Reviews -- The 'Cronaca di Partenope': An Introduction to and Critical Edition of the First Vernacular History of Naples, c. 1350 -- The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate. Ifrīqiyā and Its Andalusis, 1200-1400 -- Les Mozarabes: Christianisme, Islamisation et Arabisation en Péninsule Ibérique (IXe-XIIe Siècle) -- Foreigners and their Food. Constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law -- Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings, and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination -- Between Judaism and Christianity: Art Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher -- València àrab en prosa i vers -- Index.
Abstract:
Spanning the Straight: 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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