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

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220 notes to pages 95–98



  1. Jere L. Bacharach, “African Military Slaves in the Medieval Middle East:
    The Cases of Iraq ( 869 – 955 ) and Egpyt ( 868 – 1171 ),” International Journal of Mid-
    dle East Studies 13 , no. 4 ( 1981 ): 481. See also David Ayalon, “On the Eunuch in
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  2. Lev, “History of Black Military Slavery,” 31.

  3. Ayalon, “The Mamlūks of the Seljuks,” 321 ; and Meouak, “Slaves, noirs
    et affranchise.”

  4. Lev, “History of Black Military Slavery,” 30 – 32 ; and Zaki Mohamed Has-
    san, Les Ṭūlūnides: Étude de l’Egypte musulmane à la fin du IXe siècle, 868 – 905 ,
    165 – 168 , on the influence of the ‘Abbāsids.

  5. Ibn Ṣaghīr, Akhbār al- a’imma al- rustumiyyīn in “La chronique d’Ibn Sa-
    ghir sur les imam rustamides de Tahert,” ed. and trans. A. de C. Motylinski, 66 , 86 ,
    98 , 102 , as cited in E. Savage, A Gateway to Hell, A Gateway to Paradise: The North
    African Response to the Arabic Conquest, 101.

  6. Golden, “Comitatus,” 7 ; idem., “Khazar Turkic Ghulams,” 283 ; Warren
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    ing of Byzantium, 600 – 1025 , 169 – 70 ; and Alexander P. Kazhdan, ed., The Oxford
    Dictionary of Byzantium, II: 925 , s.v. “hetairai.”

  7. al- Maqdisī, Kitāb al- bad’ wa’l- ta’rīkh, ed. Cl. Huart, IV: 68 , as cited in
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    al- a‘lāq al- nafīsa, ed. M. J. De Goeje, 120 , 124.

  8. See also Peter Blanchard, Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and
    the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America.

  9. Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, “Delegación de Asuntos Indígenas, S 2 N 2.
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    206 ; Sebastian Balfour, Deadly Embrace: Morocco and the Road to the Spanish
    Civil War; María Rosa de Madariaga, Los moros que trajo Franco: la intervención
    de tropas coloniales en la guerra; José Antonio González Alcantud, ed., Marro-
    quíes en la Guerra Civil española: campos equívocos; and Francisco Sánchez Ru-
    ano, Islam y Guerra Civil Española: moros con Franco y la República.

  10. “Un- Spanish Spaniard: Generalissimo Francisco Franco,” New York
    Times (April 2 , 1959 ).

  11. “Franco Disbands Moorish Guard as Anti- Moroccan Talk Mounts,” New
    York Times (December 28 , 1957 ).


Chapter Five



  1. Muça Almentauri’s name appears numerous times in the chancery registers,
    indicating that he was a prominent jenet. He was in the king’s service for at least
    fifteen years; the earliest document to mention him dates from 1290 (ACA, R. 82 ,
    fol. 164 v, a compensation for horses lost in battle) and the last that I encountered

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