notes to pages 34–36 171
wife. See Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 177 , 186 , 383 , 379 – 80 ; and anonymous,
al- Dhakhīra al- saniyya, 20.
105. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 186.
106. Kably, Société, pouvoir et religion, 86 – 87.
107. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 198. See also anonymous, al- Dhakhīra
al- saniyya, 98.
108. See also Kably, Société, pouvoir et religion, 84.
109. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 191. See also Ibn Abī Zar‘, Rawḍ al-
qirṭās, 303 ; Ibn Marzūq, al- Musnad, 101 ; and anonymous, Dhakhīra al- saniyya, 98.
110. Ibn Marzūq, al- Musnad, 394 , explains that in the time of the Marīnid sultan
Abū’l- Ḥasan (r. 1331 – 1348 ), among the duties of the Naṣrid sultan was to supply
the Marīnid Zanāta troops with money and supplies, including a yearly shipment
of five hundred equipped horses. Cf. J. F. P. Hopkins, Medieval Muslim Govern-
ment in Barbary until the End of the Sixth Century of the Hijra, 53 – 55 , 75 – 78 , on the
use of Christian militia to collect taxes.
111. Manzano Rodríguez, La intervención, 336 : “Sí podría resultar que la figure
del šayj al- ghuzā evolucionara desde una condición de mero título distintivo al
principio, para convertirse después en una institución propria del ejército nazarí.”
112. See chapter 6 for more detail.
113. Luis del Mármol Carvajal, Historia del rebellion y castigo de los Moriscos
del reyno de Granada, I: 29 – 30 , as cited in Manzano Rodríguez, La intervención,
333.
114. Manzano Rodríguez, La intervención, 327 ; and Kably, Société, pouvoir et
religion, 86.
115. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 191.
116. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 191 ; Ibn al- Khaṭīb, Iḥāṭa, I: 136 ; and idem,
al- Lamḥa, 39. See chapter 6 for more detail.
117. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 117 – 18. He fell into a rivalry with the
Christian renegade and mercenary captain, Hilāl the Catalan.
118. Ibn al- Khaṭīb, al- Lamḥa, 39 : “junduhum ṣinfān: andalusī wa- barbarī.”
119. Ibn al- Khaṭīb, al- Lamḥa, 39.
120. Ibn al- Khaṭīb, al- Lamḥa, 39 : “The majority rarely wears the dress of this
country.”
121. Ibn al- Khaṭīb, al- Lamḥa, 39 : “The weapons of the majority are the long
rod folded by a short rod with a handle in its middle that is thrown by the finger-
tips and called the amdās.” See also Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy, Supplément aux
dictionnaires arabes, s.v. “dassa,” which cites the same text.
122. Ibn al- Khaṭīb, al- Lamḥa, 39.
123. See Ibn Sa‘īd al- Andalusī, as cited in Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al- Maqqarī,
Nafḥ al- ṭīb min ghuṣn al- Andalus al- raṭīb wa- dhikr wazīrihā Lisān al- Dīn al-
Khaṭīb, ed. Muḥammad Muḥyī al- Dīn ‘Abd al- Ḥamīd, I: 207 – 208. Confirmed by
Emilio García Gómez, Ibn Zamrak, el poeta de la Alhambra, 14 – 17 , esp. 16 n 1.