256 notes to pages 138–139
in eo ac inferre non cessant, pugnando fortitudines et loca comburendo et dev-
astando, dampna et mala que possunt.” See also ACA, CR, Jaume II, caixa 104 ,
no. 12999 ( 13 Oct. 1304 ): “Encara a trames a dir que Alabeç que era plegat ab mil
homens a cavall... .” See Masià i de Ros, Jaume II, 228 – 29 for full edition of this
last document.
116. ACA, R. 307 , fol. 107 r ( 1 Sep. 1304 ).
117. ACA, R. 235 , fol. 142 r, segunda numeración ( 27 Sep. 1304 ), with full edi-
tion in Ferrer i Mallol, La frontera, 234 – 35 , doc. 14.
118. Sea support failed to arrive in time; see ACA, CR, Jaume II, caixa 18 ,
no. 2282 ( 10 Sep. 1304 ), with full edition in Ferrer i Mallol, La frontera, 86 , 233 –
34 , doc. 13.
119. Almost the entire village of Gandía was abandoned. ACA, R. 307 , fol. 120 r,
as cited in Ferrer i Mallol, La frontera, 88 , alongside numerous other documents.
Some of these Mudéjares later chose to return to Valencia and faced prosecution
by the Crown (ACA, R. 203 , fol. 94 r – v [ 29 Dec. 1305 ]).
120. ACA, CR Jaume II, caixa 19 , no. 2423 ( 27 Feb. 1304 ): “... poderos Se-
nyor en Jacme per la gracia de deu Rey d’Aragó et cetera. Jo Gombau d’Entença,
peus et vostres mans, com de Senyor de... Senyor la vostra magestat que huy
que es ditmenge III kalendas Marcii per a manament per vos... et de prendre
d’aquells moros los quals sen eren anats ab los jenets et eren tornats... sens vol[....]
vostra [et] en los dit dia presne CCCCL persones enre pochs et grans et masculs
et fembres et axi s[.]... es mon enteniment que enserch et prenga tots aquells
que daqui avant atrobar pore que daquella raho sien. E en... mateix pris alcuna
partida de bestiar que es fort pocha. E axi Senyor ens en volgut certificar de les
dites... quants als altres moros qui no sen eren anats de la vostra terra, tenense
per assegurats et esta la terra en bon
enteniment meu quey faça ney enant en res entro que naia manament vostre siu
voletz que axiu faça... Xativa, VI kalendas Marcii, anno domini MCCCV.”
121. See Masià i de Ros, Jaume II, for several letters concerning al- ‘Abbās’
activities in Granada during this period.
122. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 259.
123. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 382 ; Ibn al- Khaṭīb, Iḥāṭa, IV: 78 ; Ibn
al- Khaṭīb, al- Lamḥa, 80. See also Andrés Giménez- Soler, “La Corona de Aragón y
Granada,” Boletín de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona 27 ( 1907 ):
51 – 61 ; Harvey, Islamic Spain, 180 – 81 ; Arié, L’Espagne musulmane, 93 – 94 ; and
Ferrer i Mallol, La frontera, 109 – 12. Naṣr appealed to the Castilian and Aragonese
kings for assistance; see Diego Catalán, ed., La gran crónica de Alfonso XI, 297 ;
ACA, R. 243 , fol. 264 r – v ( 5 Apr. 1317 ), as cited in Ferrer i Mallol, La frontera, 112.
124. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 382 , refers to him as “Abū al- ‘Abbās.”
125. Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar, VII: 382 : “thumma waqa‘at baynahu and
bayna abī jayyūsh mughāḍiba laḥaqa li- ajlihā bi’l- ṭāghiya.”