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

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Christians and Muslims, 15 , 141 ; fearing
conspiracy between jenets and Mudé-
jares, 116 – 17 ; fifth of spoils due to, 65 ,
104 , 131 ; limits on uses of jenets by, 13 ,
75 , 85 – 86 , 128 ; shared humanity with
jenets, 102 – 3 ; using jenets as ambas-
sadors to and from Muslim courts,
61 – 62 ; usurious debts of Muslims and,
100 , 224 n 18. See also Crown of Aragon;
noblemen challenging Aragonese kings;
sovereignty of Aragonese kings
archers, and jenet raids, 56. See also
crossbowmen
Archive of the Crown of Aragon: chancery
registers in, 9 , 16 , 22 , 40 , 54 ; limited per-
spective of, 26 – 27 ; vast scope of, 21 – 22
Arié, Rachel, 170 n 101
Asad, Talal, 158 n 13 , 261 n 38
ascetic warriors, 121 , 240 n 10
Austin, John, 69
Avenborayç, Maymon, 98 , 99 , 100
Averroes (Ibn Rushd), 68 , 70 , 81
Azanach, Çahit, 48 , 50 – 51
al- Azmeh, Aziz, 27
al- Azraq, 23 , 25 , 43 , 44 , 114 , 117 , 134 , 139


Balbale, Abigail Krasner, 125 , 242 n 43
Balearic Islands, 7 , 31
Banū Abī al- ‘Ulā, 123 , 124 , 139
Banū Ashqilūla, 16
Banū Farkhān (Ifarkhān), 89
Banū Hudhayr, 49 , 246 n 73 , 247 n 76 , 248 n 82.
See also Crevillente
Banū Marīn, 28 , 32. See also Marīnids
Banū Raḥḥū, 120 , 123 , 124
Barcelona, counts of, 6 , 22 , 60
Barth, Karl, 260 n 33
Barton, Simon, 92 , 198 n 86
Bastida, Arnaldus de, 26 , 54 , 55 , 60 , 184 n 12 ,
185 n 14
Battle of Higueruela, 19
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, 87 , 92 , 213 n 80
Benaboud, M’hammad, 29
Bennison, Amira K., 10
Berbers: early Arabic sources on, 27 ; in the
Ghuzāh, 12 ; Ibn al- Khaṭīb on Ghuzāh
and, 35 – 36 ; Ibn Khaldūn on, 27 – 29 ;
inspired by Ghuzāh successes, 35 ; lightly
armored cavalry of, 19 – 21 , 161 n 23 ;
Muslim prophets appealing to, 9 – 10 ;


referred to as Moors, 26. See also ‘Abd
al- Wādids; Marīnids; Zanāta
Berenguer, Ramon IV, 6
Blumenberg, Hans, 147 , 149 , 150 , 260 n 28
Bonald, Louis de, 145 , 150
Boswell, John, 42 , 71 , 160 n 6 , 175 n 17 ,
185 n 20 , 200 n 97
Buc, Philippe, 149 , 263 n 59
bureaucratization: by Aragonese kings, 8 ,
54 ; Frederick II and, 68
Burns, Robert Ignatius, 23 , 42 , 64 , 114 ,
175 n 17 , 198 n 86
Byzantine emperor’s bodyguard, 96. See
also Hetaireia

Calatayud, 105 – 10 , 111 , 112
Canelles, Bertran de, 133 – 34 , 136
canon law, 106 , 200 n 97 , 232 n 55
Canyelles, Vidal de, 70
Cardona, Berenguer de, 135 , 136 – 37 , 138
Cartas árabes, 22 , 75
Çassala, Guillem, 70
Cassirer, Ernst, 149
Castile: alliance with Crown of Aragon in
1304 , 119 ; Christian soldiers in North
Africa from, 89 , 90 , 91 , 93 ; hostility
between Crown of Aragon and, 8 , 23 ,
33 ; jenets held captive in, 60 ; jenets in
the service of, 57 ; Marīnids’ hostility
toward, 31 , 50
Castilian kings: chart of, 2 ; Christian sol-
diers recruited through, 89 , 90 ; competi-
tion with Aragonese kings, 6 , 8 , 9 , 13 ;
legal reforms of, 7 – 8 ; Moorish guard of,
66 – 67 , 93
Castro, Américo, 144 , 231 n 54
Catalan noblemen, challenging Aragonese
kings, 6 , 8 – 9 , 23 , 47 , 53 , 77
Catalonia: Jewish bailiffs’ forced dismissal
in, 73 ; union with kingdom of Aragon, 6
Catlos, Brian, 16 – 17 , 105 – 7 , 185 n 20 , 192 n 57 ,
198 n 86 , 230 n 46 , 231 n 53 , 232 n 55
cavalry: Marīnid, of Abū Yūsuf’s jihād, 32 ,
33 ; no evidence for Mudéjar soldiers in,
43. See also al- Ghuzāh al- Mujāhidūn
cavalry, heavy: of Andalusī Muslims, 36 ,
171 nn 123 – 24 ; Aragonese salary for,
186 n 21 ; of Christian militia in North
Africa, 89 ; of Iberian Christian knights,
18 , 19
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