The Mercenary Mediterranean_ Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon - Hussein Fancy

22 chapter one modern periods, providing us with a near continuous record of the Barce- lonan counts and Aragonese kings’ activi ...

etymologies and etiologies 23 beginning of King Pere II’s.^40 These were precisely the unstable moments when these records were ...

24 chapter one the Murcian rebellion, which threatened Castile, King Jaume recorded in his autobiography, the Llibre dels feyts: ...

etymologies and etiologies 25 to deliver a castle to the king, complaints that have the tempered air of feudal disloyalty rather ...

26 chapter one sense, it referred to the Berber inhabitants of North Africa, which is prom- ising. The word functions in this ma ...

etymologies and etiologies 27 it cannot be used unproblematically as a window onto the past. It inevita- bly reflected a certain ...

28 chapter one such as the Zanāta to the universal mission of Islam.^69 Thus below, wher- ever possible, I have attempted to bal ...

etymologies and etiologies 29 in the succession crisis following the death of al- Ḥakam II led to a civil war ( fitna), the bloo ...

30 chapter one and they satisfied their desires for wealth by pillaging travelers (ibtighā’ahum al- rizq min taḥayyuf al- sābila ...

etymologies and etiologies 31 their initial hostility during the Aragonese conquests of the Balearics ( 1229 ) and Valencia ( 12 ...

32 chapter one swift horses (bi’l- khayl al- ‘itāq), equipment (al- ‘udda), and weapons. It was a mercy of God that every day cr ...

etymologies and etiologies 33 Pere’s warning explicitly connects the jenets to Abū Yūsuf’s jihād. This connection not only provi ...

34 chapter one al- ‘ibar to the history of these soldiers from 1262 until the arrest of their last leader in 1369.^102 He traced ...

etymologies and etiologies 35 appears to have been no more than nominal.^111 Until the Ghuzāh’s dissolu- tion, their leaders wer ...

36 chapter one the Maghrib: “As for the Berber, who come from the Marīnid, Zayyānid, Tijānī, ‘Ajīsa, and North African Arab trib ...

etymologies and etiologies 37 Marīnid sultan or the Marīnid princes who led the Ghuzāh. These North African soldiers who had com ...

38 chapter one soldiers or, more precisely, the style of riding associated with them has only further obscured their history and ...

chapter two A Sovereign Crisis S ix months before the arrival of the five horsemen riding mules, in Octo- ber 1284 , King Pere I ...

40 chapter two To pursue the question of how and why the Aragonese kings turned to their former enemies, the Marīnid Ghuzāh, it ...

a sovereign crisis 41 reference to the jenets— demonstrates the problem. Dated October 13 , 1265 , during the reign of King Jaum ...