{"product_id":"the-making-of-a-mediterranean-emirate-9780812243109","title":"The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thirteenth century marks a turning point in the history of the western Mediterranean. The armies of Castile and Aragon won significant and decisive victories over Muslims in Iberia and took over a number of important cities including Cordoba, Seville, Jaen, and Murcia. Chased out of their native cities, a large number of Andalusis migrated to Ifrīqiya in northern Africa. There, a newly founded Hafsid dynasty (1229-1574) welcomed members of the Andalusi elite and showered them with honors and high positions at court.\u003cbr\u003eWhile historians have tended to conceive of Ifrīqiya as a region ruled by the Hafsids, Ramzi Rouighi argues in \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Mediterranean Emirate\u003c\/i\u003e that the Andalusis who joined the Hafsid court supported economic arrangements and political relationships that effectively prevented regional integration from taking place during this period. Rouighi examines an array of documentary, literary, and legal sources to argue that Ifrīqiya was integrat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a much needed contribution to an understudied field. The use of narrative histories as source material is where Rouighi's remarkable talents as a historian emerge. He demonstrates that by asking the right questions, one can write social and economic history using sources focused on other agendas. Not only does he painstakingly extract information on land tenure, commerce, commodities, and rural life that the chronicles almost never address directly, he also explains the historical contexts in which the sources themselves came into being and what kinds of biases are embedded in them. Herein lies one of this book's major contributions: its simultaneous treatment of history and historiography.\" * Marina Rustow, Johns Hopkins University *\u003cbr\u003e\"An engaging and fresh look at the creation of the history of medieval Ifrīqiyā and the nature of political power and intellectual culture in the premodern Maghrib-a must-read for students and scholars of the region. Rouighi argues convincingly against the grain of the nation-centered historical paradigm, highlighting the challenges that faced Hafsid rule, and teasing out the subtleties of the intellectual tradition that emerged as the dynasty's standard-bearer.\" * \u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Orientations\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE LIMITS OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Politics of the Emirate\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Taxation and Land Tenure\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Between Land and Sea\u003cbr\u003e PART II. EMIRISM AND THE MAKING OF A REGION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Age of the Emir\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Learning and the Emirate\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Emirism and the Writing of History\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Departures\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405716627799,"sku":"9780812243109","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812243109.jpg?v=1730493380","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-making-of-a-mediterranean-emirate-9780812243109","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}