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

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notes to pages 113–114 235



  1. ACA, Bulas, legajo VI, no. 19 ( 8 Jan. 1239 ).

  2. Abū al- Ḥasan ‘Alī b. Muḥammad al- Makhzūmī Ibn Ḥarīq of Valencia
    (d. 1225 ), who was the teacher of the well- known scholar Ibn al- Abbār, wrote
    these lines on the eve of the Jaume I’s conquest ( 1238 ). See A. R. Nykl, Hispano-
    Arabic Poetry and Its Relations with the Old Provençal Troubadours, 331 , as cited
    in Burns, Islam Under the Crusaders, 3.

  3. On the military strength of the region, see Llibre dels feyts, chap. 128 ; Des-
    clot, Crònica, chap. 49.

  4. A week after the surrender noted above, Pere issued an order to his officers
    in Algeciras (a port briefly under Castilian rule in this period) that this treaty
    should be upheld, providing evidence that some jenets did in fact leave after the
    pacification of Valencia. ACA, R. 38 , fol. 33 v ( 7 Sep. 1276 ): “Infans Petrus et cet-
    era, fidelibus suis baiulo, iusticie, iuratis et universis hominibus Alyazire, salutem
    et graciam. Sciatis quod nos accipimus et habemus ab hodierna die dominica us-
    que in tres menses continere [sic] vent[ur]os et completos treguas cum janetis et
    omnibus aliis Sarracenis locorum Regni Valencie et castrorum qui s[e] contra nos
    alciaverunt tamen castris et locis ac que tenet alcaydus Abrahim et
    excepto castro de Alcalano, Vallis de Alfandec, de Marynenen, et Sarracenis dic-
    torum castrorum et rebus eorumdem. Quare mandamus vobis quatenus dictam
    treguam per totum dictum tempus observetis et infra dictum tempus non oportet
    vos similiter vel res vestras cav[e]re a janetis vel aliquibus Saracenis dictorum cas-
    trorum et locorum qui sunt in tregua predicta quam quidem treguam precon[i]zant
    per Alyaziram visis presentibus faciatis. Datum Xative VIII idus Septembris anno
    domini MCCLXXVI.”

  5. On the Mudéjares of Valencia, see Burns, Crusader Kingdom of Valencia;
    idem, Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Societies
    in Symbiosis; Josep Torró Abad, El naixement d’una colònia; Ferrer i Mallol, La
    frontera amb l’Islam; and Mark D. Meyerson, The Muslims of Valencia in the Age
    of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade.

  6. The surrender agreement at Chivert (AHN, Ordines militares, codex 542 ,
    Montesa [ 28 Apr. 1234 ]) preserved the right to maintain mosques and prayer.
    Jaume I also conceded to the Muslims of Játiva the right to build a new mosque
    in 1273 (ACA, R 21 , fol. 151 v [ 7 June 1273 ]). Jaume II protected the right of the
    Muslims of Alagón (ACA, R 90 , fol. 85 v [ 6 Oct. 1291 ]) and Ricla (ACA, R 94 ,
    fols. 144 v – 145 r [ 27 Dec. 1292 ]) against Christian encroachments or opposition. In
    the latter case, Christians blocked Muslims from entering their mosque. For more
    on the issue, see Ferrer i Mallol, Els sarraïns, 85 – 94 ; and Ana Echevarría Arsuaga,
    “De cadí a alcalde mayor. La élite judicial Mudéjar en el siglo XV,” Al- Qanṭara 1
    ( 2003 ): 139 – 68.

  7. ACA, R. 19 , fol. 83 r ( 16 Dec. 1273 ).

  8. Mudéjares had a variety of community leaders: alcaydus (al- qā’id), alamin
    (al- amīn), çalmedina (ṣāḥib al- madīna), almotacen (al- muḥtasib), and almoixerif
    (al- musharrif ), whose roles seem to have overlapped extensively, particularly in

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