{"product_id":"the-making-of-a-mediterranean-emirate-ifriqiya-and-its-andalusis-12-14-hardback-9780812243109","title":"The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate; Ifriqiya and Its Andalusis, 12-14 (Hardback) 9780812243109","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Making of a Mediterranean Emirate\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIfriqiya and Its Andalusis, 12-14\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRamzi Rouighi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812243109\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 May 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 3 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.584 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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) \"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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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 Ifr\u0026amp;#299qiyā 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\u003e While historians have tended to conceive of Ifr\u0026amp;#299qiyā 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 Ifr\u0026amp;#299qiyā was integrated neither politically nor economically and that, consequently, it was not a region in a meaningful sense. Through a close reading of narrative sources, especially historical chronicles, Rouighi further argues that the emergence in the late fourteenth century of the political ideology of Emirism accounts for the representation of the rule of the Hafsid dynasty over cities as its rule over the whole of Ifr\u0026amp;#299qiyā. Setting the activities of Andalusis such as the celebrated historian Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406) in relation to specific political, economic, and intellectual developments in Ifr\u0026amp;#299qiyā, \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Mediterranean Emirate\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a counter to the dynastic-centric view of the period that pervades medieval sources and continues to inform most modern generalizations about the Maghrib and the Mediterranean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685309247768,"sku":"9780812243109","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-making-of-a-mediterranean-emirate-ifriqiya-and-its-andalusis-12-14-hardback-9780812243109","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}