notes to pages 83–85 211
- ACA, Cartas árabes, no. 155 : “And we swear by the truth of Muḥammad
and the qibla (bi- ḥaqq muḥammad wa- bi’l- qibla /per Mafumeti et per lalquible)
and with our hands on the Qur’ān.” Ibid.: “And we swear by God with our hands
upon the four Gospels (bi’llāh wa- bi’l- arba‘i anājīl /per Deum et eius sancta qua-
tuor evangeliam).” - ACA, R. 71 , fol. 89 r ( 24 Oct. 1287 ).
- Muntaner, chaps. 155 , 159 ; Cafari et continuatorum Annales Januenses, V: 70
( 1285 ); Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VI: 353 , Lauria is referred to as “al- Marākiyā,”
the Marquis and lieutenant of Frederick (Fadarīk), son of Alfons (Alrīdākūn),
king of Barcelona; and La Mantia, Codice diplomatico dei Re Aragonesi, I: 609 – 12.
See also Dufourcq, L’Espagne catalane, 266 – 67. - Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VI: 356.
- al- Nuwayrī, al- Maghrib al- Islāmī, 452.
- ACA, R. 73 , fol. 90 r ( 1 Dec. 1290 ), with a full edition in Klüpfel, Die äussere,
173 – 74. - Dufourcq, L’Espagne catalane, 288 , explains that only part of Murghim’s
ransom was paid. A document that was overlooked by Dufourcq, ACA, R. 83 ,
fol. 82 v ( 17 Sep. 1290 ) reveals that the remaining 6 , 000 duplas were finally deliv-
ered by Murghim in that year, two years after his release, presumably to secure the
release of his son, who was held captive in Sicily. - Ibn Khaldūn is not clear about when he died. Cf. al- Nuwayrī, al- Maghrib al-
Islāmī, 452 ; and Dufourcq, L’Espagne catalane, 290 , which cites two further docu-
ments to which I could not attest. - Karl Marx, Kapital, vol. 1 , chap. 24 , sec. 6 , commenting sarcastically on
Montesquieu: “That is the ‘sweet commerce’!” - ACA, R. 55 , fol. 54 r – v ( 17 Oct. 1291 ); ACA, R. 64 , fols. 191 r – 192 r ( 21 Apr.
1287 ); ACA, R 90 , fol. 118 r (Oct. 1291 ); ACA, R 252 , fol. 121 r ( 18 Nov. 1295 );
ACA, CR, Jaume II, caixa 91 , no. 11093 ( 24 Mar. 1304 ); and ACA, Cartas árabes,
no. 84 bis ( 14 June 1304 ). - ACV, Perg., 737 , fol. 6 ( 1296 ); ACV, Perg., 738 ( 1294 ), fols. 5 – 6 , for mention
of raids to Jerba and Kerkennah; ACV, Perg., 738 ( 1294 ), fol. 7 , compensation for
a jenet captured during a battle in North Africa (in partibus Barbarie); and ACV,
Perg., 738 , fol. 8 , for mention of three knights from Lucera in the company of
jenets. - ACA, Cartas árabes, 128 ( 13 May 1313 ), in which al- Liḥyānī complains of
raids by Roger de Lauria; and ACA, Cartas árabes, 133 ( 11 Oct. 1313 ), in which
al- Liḥyāni sends an ambassador carrying a secret message to Jaume II. See also
Michael Lower, “Ibn al- Lihyani: Sultan of Tunis and Would- Be Christian Convert
( 1311 – 1318 ),” Mediterranean Historical Review 24 , no. 1 ( 2009 ): 17 – 27. - ACA, R. 55 , fol. 54 r – v ( 17 Oct. 1291 ): “... E aytamben en aiuda dels nos-
tres enamics Christians, nos trametretz al estiu ab lo nostre nauili C cavaller janetz
pagats per vos per tres meses”; ACA, R. 64 , fol. 176 r – v ( 22 Dec. 1286 ); ACA,
R. 64 , fols. 191 r – 192 r ( 21 Apr. 1287 ), cited above; ACA, R. 90 , fol. 118 r (Oct. 1291 );