The Wolf King : Ibn Mardanishand the construction of power in al-Andalus
Abigail Krasner Balbale
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
| Omfang | XV, 342 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | 1. Caliph and Mahdī: The Battle over Power in the Islamic Middle Period -- 2. Rebel against the Truth : Almohad Visions of Ibn Mardanīsh -- 3. Filiative Networks : Lineage and Legitimacy in Sharq al-Andalus -- 4. Material Genealogies and the Construction of Power -- 5. Vassals, Traders, and Kings : Economic and Political Networks in the Western Mediterranean -- 6. Resistance and Assimilation after the Almohad Conquest -- 7. The Reconquista, a Lost Paradise, and Other Teleologies -- Postscript : Medieval Stories, Modern Anxieties -- Bibiography -- Index.. - "Draws on methodologies from history, philology, and art history to examine chronicles, chancery documents, poetry, architecture, coins, and portable objects to reveal how Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Mardanīsh, celebrated in Castilian and Latin sources as the Wolf King, adapted language and forms from around the Islamic world to construct power"--
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| ISBN | 9781501765872
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