{"product_id":"the-wolf-king-ibn-mardanish-and-the-construction-of-power-in-al-andalus-hardback-9781501765872","title":"The Wolf King; Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in Al-Andalus (Hardback) 9781501765872","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Wolf King\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIbn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in Al-Andalus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAbigail Krasner Balbale (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501765872\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 January 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 64 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 4 maps, 1 chart - 4 Maps - 1 Charts - 64 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.907 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\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wolf King\u003c\/i\u003e is an important work of interdisciplinary and comparative history that employs an array of textual, visual, and material evidence to reincorporate al-Andalus into the broader world of the medieval Mediterranean.\u003c\/p\u003e (Mediterranean Historical Review) \u003cp\u003eThis meticulous exploration of the figure of Ibn Mardanīsh allows us to reformulate the understanding we have of the history of Islam in the West in one of the last phases of Muslim supremacy in the Iberian Peninsula, showing the plurality of strategies adopted by the political authorities of the time to respond to the changing times.\u003c\/p\u003e (Studi Magrebini) \u003cp\u003eIn this richly sourced, nuanced, and insightful study of the twelfth-century Wolf King Ibn Mardanīsh, Abigail Balbale has given us the gift of a rigorous and methodologically innovative historical study that deepens our understanding not just of the subject of her study but the subfield to which he belongs as well.\u003c\/p\u003e (Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the Dionisius A. Agius Book Prize\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wolf King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores how political power was conceptualized, constructed, and wielded in twelfth-century al-Andalus, focusing on the eventful reign of Muhammad ibn Sad ibn Ahmad ibn Mardanīsh (r. 1147–1172)\u003c\/b\u003e. Celebrated in Castilian and Latin sources as \u003ci\u003eel rey lobo\/rex lupus\u003c\/i\u003e and denigrated by Almohad and later Arabic sources as irreligious and disloyal to fellow Muslims because he fought the Almohads and served as vassal to the Castilians, Ibn Mardanīsh ruled a kingdom that at its peak constituted nearly half of al-Andalus and served as an important buffer between the Almohads and the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough a close examination of contemporary sources across the region, Abigail Krasner Balbale shows that Ibn Mardanīsh's short-lived dynasty was actually an attempt to integrate al-Andalus more closely with the Islamic East—particularly the Abbasid caliphate. At stake in his battles against the Almohads was the very idea of the caliphate in this period, as well as who could define righteous religious authority. \u003ci\u003eThe Wolf King\u003c\/i\u003e makes effective use of chronicles, chancery documents, poetry, architecture, coinage, and artifacts to uncover how Ibn Mardanīsh adapted language and cultural forms from around the Islamic world to assert and consolidate power—and then tracks how these strategies, and the memory of Ibn Mardanīsh more generally, influenced expressions of kingship in subsequent periods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOpen access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Ibn Mardanish as Historical Figure and Historiographic Subject\u003cbr\u003e 1. Caliph and Madhi: The Battle over Power in the Islamic Middle Period\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rebel against the Truth: Almohad Visions of Ibn Mardanish\u003cbr\u003e 3. Filiative Networks: Lineage and Legitimacy in Sharq al-Andalus\u003cbr\u003e 4. Material Genealogies and the Construction of Power\u003cbr\u003e 5. Vassals, Traders, and Kings: Economic and Political Networks in the Western Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e 6. Renaissance and Assimilation after the Almohad Conquest\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Reconquista, a Lost Paradise, and Other Teleologies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607876432152,"sku":"9781501765872","price":38.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-wolf-king-ibn-mardanish-and-the-construction-of-power-in-al-andalus-hardback-9781501765872","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}