COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- SERIES-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- MAPS -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON THE CITATION OF SOURCES, DATES, PLACES, AND NAMES -- GLOSSARY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EBRO REGION, 1000-1300: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW -- PART I: Muslim domination of the Ebro and its demise -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 THAGHR AND TAIFA -- MUSLIM CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENT -- Immigration and settlement in the Furthest March -- RELIGION IN THE MARCH -- Conversion to Islam -- Christians and Jews of the Furthest March -- Religious and cultural blurring -- LANGUAGE AND CUSTOM IN THE ISLAMIC EBRO -- Arabic as the language of al-Andalus -- Berber influence -- A multilingual society -- FAMILY AND SOCIETY IN THE THAGHR -- The "Oriental" family -- Women and law -- Arabic and Berber social structures -- ISLAM AND LEARNED CULTURE -- The ulama of the Furthest March -- Social class and the ulama -- ADMINISTRATION AND POWER -- Civil and religious administration -- Town and country -- VOX POPULI: THE POWER OF CONSENSUS -- The "public" and personality in local government -- AGRICULTURE AND TRADE BE FORE THE CHRISTIAN CONQUEST -- REGIONAL AND ISLAMIC IDENTITY IN THE FURTHEST MARCH -- AN ISLAMIC SOCIETY -- Chapter 2 CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS: CONTACT AND CONQUEST -- MUSLIM-CHRI STIAN CONTACT ACROSS THE FRONTIER -- Political embroilment -- The Cid and his contemporaries -- Exchange and communication -- FRONTIER IDEOLOGIE S : JIHAD, CRUSADE AND RECONQUISTA -- Jihad in al-Andalus -- Politics of expediency -- Crusade and Reconquest -- THE SHAPING OF CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY IN THE PYRENEES -- THE CHRISTIAN CONQUEST -- Negotiated conquests -- REORGANIZATION AND SETTLEMENT UNDER CHRISTIAN RULE -- Muslim emigration -- Christian settlement -- Land redistribution and reorganization -- A society transformed.

PART II: Muslims under Christian rule -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 3 THE FINANCIAL AND JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION OF MUDÉJAR SOCIETY -- THE ALJAMA: THE FORMAL MUSLIM COMMUNITY -- MUDÉJAR TAXATION -- Royal and seigniorial tax jurisdictions -- Taxation and identity -- Franquitas as a mechanism of mudéjar divisiveness -- Islamic taxation under Christian rule -- TENSION AND SOLIDARITY AS A RESULT OF CROSS-COMMUNITY TAX ASSESSMENT -- TAX ASSESSMENT AND REDUCTION -- ALJAMA INDEBTEDNESS AND LEGAL PERSONALITY -- The aljama as debtor -- The aljama as a legal corporation -- ALJAMA ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE AND OFFICIALS -- Elements of popular and traditional rule -- Christian officials in mudéjar administration -- Recourse against abusive officials -- ISLAMIC AND CHRISTIAN JUSTICE IN THE ALJAMA -- Criminal and civil justice -- Mudéjares in Christian courts and Christians in Muslim courts -- The mechanism of appeal -- Jurisdictional and administrative diversity -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4 MUSLIMS IN THE ECONOMY OF THE CHRISTIAN EBRO -- MUSLIM AGRICULTURE -- Sharik and exaricus: A case of institutional diffusion -- Irrigation practices after the conquest -- Crop types and animal husbandry -- MUDÉJAR TRADESMEN AND ARTISANS -- MUSLIM TRADERS IN THE CHRISTIAN EBRO -- CREDIT: A MECHANISM OF INTEGRATION AND FRAGMENTATION -- Evasion of debt by Muslims -- Credit and sectarian tension -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5 MUDÉJAR ETHNICITY AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETY -- "PATRICIANS" AND SLAVES : SOCIAL CLASS AND MUDÉJAR ETHNICITY -- The "urban patriciate" -- Muslim slaves and mudéjar society -- The black market in slaves -- Slave albarana -- Escaping slaves -- Muslim slave owners -- Manumission -- Ambiguities of slave status -- Social influence of "patricians" and slaves -- LANGUAGE AND RELIGION AS MECHANISMS OF INTEGRATION AND EXCLUSION -- The use of Arabic in mudéjar administration.

Christian and Jewish speakers of Arabic -- Romance and Arabic as mudéjar vernaculars -- Mudéjar religious isolation -- Conversion to Christianity -- Social consequences of conversion to Christianity -- Forced conversion -- The baptizatus: an intermediary ethnicity -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6 MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETY -- MUSLIMS AND CHRI STIANS IN DEFENSE OF THE COMMUNITY -- Military service -- Civil defense -- Exercitus as a privilege and an imposition -- The hue and cry -- Muslims and Christians in joint administrations -- Christians and Muslims as partners in crime -- MUDÉJARES AS "ENEMIES OF THE FAITH": CRUSADE AND FRONTIER -- Ideology and policy -- Mudéjar movement beyond the Ebro -- Muslim immigration and emigration -- The economic frontier -- Muslim mercenaries in the Ebro -- SEX, VIOLENCE, AND DISCRIMINATION: MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN DAILY LIFE -- Day-to-day contact -- Institutionalised discrimination -- Sexual relations between Muslims and Christians -- Noble and popular violence -- Sectarian violence -- CONCLUSION -- MUDEJARISMO AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM -- PART III: Individual and community in the Christian Ebro -- INTRODUCTION -- Case study 1: FISCAL AND CONFESSIONAL IDENTITY: THE GALIPS, TEMPLAR VASSALS IN ZARAGOZA ( 1179-1390) -- Case study 2: FRANQUITAS AND FACTIONALISM IN DAROCA: THE LUÇERA FAMILY VS. THE ALJAMA ( 1267-1302) -- Case study 3: LITIGATION AND COMPETITION WITHIN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY: THE ABDELLAS OF DAROCA ( 1280-1310) -- Case study 4: ADMINISTRATIVE CORRUPTION AND ROYAL COMPLICITY: ABRAHIM ABENGENTOR, ÇAUALQUEM OF HUESCA (1260-1304) -- Case study 5: OVERLAPPING AGENDAS: THE CAREER OF MAHOMET, ALAMINUS OF BORJA (1276-1302) -- Case study 6: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE INDIFFERENT: CHRISTIAN OFFICIALS IN THE EBRO REGION -- BARTHOLOMEUS THOMASII, BAIULUS AND MERINUS OF ZARAGOZA (1276-1283).

EGIDIUS TARINI, MERINUS OF ZARAGOZA (1292-1312) -- ENNEGUS LUPPI DE JASSA, MERINUS OF HUESCA AND BARBASTRO AND BAIULUS GENERALIS OF ARAGON (1276-1308) -- ALAMANNUS DE GUDAL, SUPERIUNCTARIUS OF TARAZONA (1279-1308) -- SUBORDINATE S AND INSUBORDINATION: NON-MUSLIM OFFICIALS IN MUSLIM AFFAIRS -- PERSONAL HISTORIES: THE INDIVIDUAL, WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND -- Conclusions: MUDÉJAR ETHNOGENESIS -- THE EBRO VALLEY AND THE KINGDOM OF VALENCIA -- CATACLYSM VERSUS CONTINUITY -- AMBIGUITIES OF ETHNIC IDENTITY -- MUDÉJAR MARGINALIZATION -- MUDÉJAR INTEGRATION -- INTERNAL TRANSFORMATIONS -- MUDÉJAR ETHNICITY -- Appendix 1 CURRENCY OF THE THIRTEENTH-CENTURY EBRO REGION -- Appendix 2 TOPONYMICAL VARIANTS IN ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS -- Appendix 3 RULERS OF THE "CROWN OF ARAGON," 1050-1300 -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT SOURCES -- PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES AND REFERENCE WORKS -- INDEX.