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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808083603321

Titolo

Spanning the Strait : studies in unity in the western Mediterranean / / edited by Yuen-Gen Liang [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

90-04-25664-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Special offprint of medieval encounters  Spanning the strait

Altri autori (Persone)

LiangYuen-Gen <1974->

Disciplina

303.48/246061

Soggetti

Acculturation - Iberian Peninsula - History

Acculturation - Africa, North - History

Iberian Peninsula Relations Africa, North

Africa, North Relations Iberian Peninsula

Gibraltar, Strait of History

Africa, North Civilization

Iberian Peninsula Civilization

Africa, North Book reviews

Iberian Peninsula Book reviews

Gibraltar, Strait of Book reviews

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Unity and Disunity across the Strait of Gibraltar / Yuen-Gen Liang , Abigail Krasner Balbale , Andrew Devereux and Camilo Gómez-Rivas -- Slaves and Silver across the Strait of Gibraltar: Politics and Trade between Umayyad Iberia and Khārijite 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 / David Coleman -- The Mahdī in Valencia: Messianism, Apocalypticism and



Morisco Rebellions in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain / Marya T. Green-Mercado -- Book Reviews / Clifford R. Backman , Travis Bruce , Patrick Harris , Capucine Nemo-Pekelman , Brenda S. Gardenour Walter , Alexandra Cuffel , Pamela A. Patton and Miguel Ángel Vázquez -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Spanning the Strait: 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. Six articles on topics ranging from the eighth-century slave trade to sixteenth-century apocalypticism trace and analyze movement, mutual influence and patterns shared in the face of political, religious, and cultural difference. By transcending traditional disciplinary and temporal divisions, this collection of essays highlights the long history of contact and exchange that united the two sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. A comprehensive introduction by the editors contextualizes the articles within the last half-century of scholarship and salient contemporary trends. Contributors are Adam Gaiser, Linda G. Jones, Hussein Fancy, S.J. Pearce, David Coleman, and Marya T. Green-Mercado.