ISBN:
9789004256644
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48246061
Keywords:
Acculturation -- Iberian Peninsula -- History
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Acculturation -- Africa, North -- History
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Iberian Peninsula -- Relations -- Africa, North
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Africa, North -- Relations -- Iberian Peninsula
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Gibraltar, Strait of -- History
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Africa, North -- Civilization
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Iberian Peninsula -- Civilization
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Africa, North-Book reviews
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Iberian Peninsula-Book reviews
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Gibraltar, Strait of-Book reviews
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Acculturation ; Africa, North ; History
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Acculturation ; Iberian Peninsula ; History
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Africa, North ; Civilization
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Africa, North ; Relations ; Iberian Peninsula
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Gibraltar, Strait of ; History
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Iberian Peninsula ; Civilization
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Iberian Peninsula ; Relations ; Africa, North
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- 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.
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