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Book SynopsisThe struggle between Islam and the Crusaders comprised a dialogue of cultures on a broad geographic scale and a wide expanse of time, a perennial seesaw of conquest in the West as in the East. Father Burns' pioneering work on Valencia has demonstrated that the inner reality of this sustained confrontation lies as much in the colonial interims as in
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Illustration, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xxxi*I. The King's Other Kingdom, pg. 3*II. Death of an Islamic Empire, pg. 26*III. The Physical Setting, pg. 46*IV. The Human Geography, pg. 64*V. City and Country: Basic Classes, pg. 89*VI. Surrender Terms: Universality and Pattern, pg. 117*VII. Burriana, Valencia, and the Townsmen, pg. 139*VIII. Incorporation: Motives and Mechanisms, pg. 155*IX. Islam: An Established Religion, pg. 184*X. The Law and Its Interpreters, pg. 220*XI. Christians and the Islamic Judiciary, pg. 249*XII. The Muslim in the Feudal Order, pg. 273*XIII. The Military Aristocracy, pg. 300*XIV. Patriot Mudejar Lords, pg. 323*XV. Horizontal Power: The Rulers, pg. 353*XVI. The City-State Polities, pg. 374*XVII. The Islamic Establishment: Vertical Power, pg. 401*Bibliography, pg. 421*Index, pg. 457
