Spanning the strait studies in unity in the western Mediterranean / edited by Yuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux, and Camillo Gómez-Rivas.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Descriptionvi, 268 pages ; 24 cm
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Subjects
Acculturation--Iberian Peninsula. --History.
Acculturation--Africa, North. --History.
Iberian Peninsula--Relations. --Africa, North.
Africa, North--Relations. --Iberian Peninsula.
Gibraltar, Strait of--History.
Iberian Peninsula--Civilization.
Africa, North--Civilization.
Iberian Peninsula--Book reviews.
Africa, North--Book reviews.
Gibraltar, Strait of--Book reviews.

Other author/creatorLiang, Yuen-Gen, 1974-
Other author/creatorBalbale, Abigail Krasner.
Other author/creatorDevereux, Andrew.
Other author/creatorGomez-Rivas, Camillo.
SeriesSpecial offprint of medieval encounters ; volume 19, 1-2 (2013)
Contents Introduction: Unity and disunity across the Strait of Gibraltar / Yuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux, and Camilo Gomez-Rivas -- [1] Articles -- Slaves and silver across the Strait of Gibraltar : politics and trade between Umayyad Iberia and Kharijite North Africa / Adam Gaiser -- The preaching of the Almohads : loyalty and resistance across the Strait of Gibraltar / Linda G. Jones -- The last Almohads : universal sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon / Hussein Fancy -- "The types of wisdom are two in number" : Judah Ibn Tibbon's quotation from the Iḥyā 'Ulūm al-Dīn / S.J. Pearce -- Of corsairs, converts and renegades : forms and functions of coastal raiding on both sides of the far western Mediterranean, 1490-1540 / David Coleman -- The Mahdi in Valencia : Messianism, apocalypticism and Morisco rebellions in late sixteenth-century Spain / Marya T. Green-Mercado -- [2] Book reviews -- Clifford R. Backman on Samantha Kelly, The 'Cronaca di Partenope' : an introduction to and critical edition of the first vernacular history of Naples, c. 1350 -- Travis Bruce on Ramzi Rouighi, The making of a Mediterranean emirate : Ifriqiya and its Andalusis, 1200-1400 -- Patrick Harris on Cyrille Aillet, Les Mozarabes : Christianisme, Islamisation, et Arabisation en Peninsule Iberique (IXe-XIIe siecle) -- Capucine Nemo-Pekelman on D. Freidenreich, Foreigners and their food : constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic law -- Brenda S. Gardenour Walter on Patricia A. Baker, Han Nijdam, and Karine Van't Land, eds., Medicine and space : body, surroundings, and borders in antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Alexandra Cuffel on Marc Michael Epstein, The medieval Haggadah : art, narrative, and religious imagination -- Pamela A. Patton on Katrin kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer, eds., Between Judaism and Christianity : art historical essays in honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher -- Miguel Angel Vazquez on Ana Labarta, Carmen Barcelo, and Josefina Veglison, Valencia arab en prosa i vers.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN9789004256637 (paperback : acid-free paper)
ISBN9004256636 (paperback : acid-free paper)