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

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How do rulers make their rule palatable and appealing to their subjects or citizens? Drawing on the expertise of several international scholars, this volume explores how rulers in medieval Iberia and the Maghrib presented their rule and what strategies they adopted to persuade their subjects of their legitimacy. It focuses on the Nasrids of Granada and the Marinids of Morocco, who both ruled from the mid-13th century to the later 15th century. One of the book's central themes is the idea that the ways in which these monarchs presented their rule developed out of a common political culture that straddled the straits of Gibraltar. This culture was mediated by constant transfers of people, ideas and commoditities across the straits and a political historiography in which deliberate parallels and comparisons were drawn between Iberia and North Africa. The book adopts this approach to challenge a tendency to see the Iberian and North African cultural and political spheres as inherently different and, implicitly, as precursors to later European and African indentities. While several chapters in the volume do flag up contrasts in practice, they also highlight the structural similarities in the approach to legitimation deployed by the Nasrid and Marinid dynasties in this period.--
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eng
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First Edition.
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xii, 263 pages
Note
Based on a workshop held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in September 2011
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
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9780197265697
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The articulation of power in medieval Iberia and the Maghrib
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The articulation of power in medieval Iberia and the Maghrib
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edited by Amira K. Bennison
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Language
eng
Summary
How do rulers make their rule palatable and appealing to their subjects or citizens? Drawing on the expertise of several international scholars, this volume explores how rulers in medieval Iberia and the Maghrib presented their rule and what strategies they adopted to persuade their subjects of their legitimacy. It focuses on the Nasrids of Granada and the Marinids of Morocco, who both ruled from the mid-13th century to the later 15th century. One of the book's central themes is the idea that the ways in which these monarchs presented their rule developed out of a common political culture that straddled the straits of Gibraltar. This culture was mediated by constant transfers of people, ideas and commoditities across the straits and a political historiography in which deliberate parallels and comparisons were drawn between Iberia and North Africa. The book adopts this approach to challenge a tendency to see the Iberian and North African cultural and political spheres as inherently different and, implicitly, as precursors to later European and African indentities. While several chapters in the volume do flag up contrasts in practice, they also highlight the structural similarities in the approach to legitimation deployed by the Nasrid and Marinid dynasties in this period.--
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Bennison, Amira K
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  • maps
  • genealogical tables
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Proceedings of the British Academy,
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195
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  • Beni Marin dynasty
  • Power (Social sciences)
  • Nasrides
  • Power (Social sciences)
  • Spain
  • Spain
  • Spain
  • Africa, North
  • Africa, North
  • Africa, North
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The articulation of power in medieval Iberia and the Maghrib, edited by Amira K. Bennison
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Publication
Note
Based on a workshop held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in September 2011
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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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
Control code
FIEb17604011
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
First Edition.
Extent
xii, 263 pages
Isbn
9780197265697
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, genealogical tables
System control number
(OCoLC)864787460
Label
The articulation of power in medieval Iberia and the Maghrib, edited by Amira K. Bennison
Publication
Note
Based on a workshop held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in September 2011
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
  • text
  • cartographic image
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent.
  • rdacontent.
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
Control code
FIEb17604011
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
First Edition.
Extent
xii, 263 pages
Isbn
9780197265697
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, genealogical tables
System control number
(OCoLC)864787460

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