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

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cavalry, lightly armored, 18 – 21 ; of Andalusī
Muslims in fourteenth century, 36 ,
171 n 124 ; Christian, during conquest
of Sardinia, 56 ; of jenets, 36 – 37 , 56 ;
paid less than heavy cavalry, 186 n 21 ; of
Zanāta, 19 – 21 , 28 , 30 , 36 – 37 , 167 n 71.
See also a la jineta
chancery registers, 9 , 16 , 22 , 40 , 54 , 55
Charles of Anjou, 46 , 47
chivalry, 64
Christian political exiles in Islamic courts, 87
Christian soldiers in Muslim armies, 4 , 12 ,
88 – 94 ; Aragonese kings’ efforts at con-
trol over, 79 , 91 – 92 , 93 ; exchanged for
Muslim soldiers in Christian armies, 75 ,
78 – 79 , 85 – 86 , 128 ; of Iberian Peninsula,
14 , 86 – 87 , 88 ; Islamic law and, 127 ,
128 ; limits on use of, 14 – 15 , 75 , 90 – 91 ;
as precedent for jenets, 75 , 86 , 93 – 94 ;
religious needs of, 79 , 85 , 91 , 92 – 93 ; of
slave origin, 94 ; tradition of military
slavery and, 96
Clement IV, 23
clothing: Christian legislation to control,
66 , 200 n 97 , 200 nn 100 – 101 ; as gifts to
jenets, 59 – 60 , 65 – 66 , 74 ; as gifts to wives
of jenets, 99 ; payments to jenets for, dur-
ing Jaume I’s reign, 41 ; of pre- Islamic
Iranian royal guards, 95 ; social and
religious identity and, 66
Coll de Panissars, 1 – 2 , 31 , 48 , 51 – 52 , 77 ,
79 , 84
Conradin, 178 n 51
Conrad IV, 178 n 51
conservative accounts of religion, 5 , 59 , 67 ,
143 , 146 , 147 , 148 , 149 , 150
Constanza, wife of Prince Pere, 45 – 46 , 76
convenience, principle of, 107
convivencia debates, 5 , 59 , 107 , 142 – 45 , 146
Cordoba, sack of, 29
Corsica, 8
Cortey, Ferrer des, 101 – 2
Covarrubias, vii, 17 , 20
Crevillente, 48 , 49
crisis of culture, 144 , 149
Crónica Najarense, 26
crossbowmen: of Naṣrid military, Ibn al-
Khaṭīb on, 36 ; recruited from Mudéjares,
43 , 45 , 52 , 176 n 24 ; of Templars, 136
Crown of Aragon, 3 , 6 – 8 ; Archive of, 9 , 16 ,
21 – 22 , 26 – 27 , 40 , 54 ; French invasion of,


47 – 48 , 52 , 53 , 77 , 78 ; hostility between
Castile and, 33 ; Mudéjar soldiers used
by, 42 – 43 , 175 n 17 , 175 nn 21 – 22. See also
Aragonese kings
Crusade ideology, Catlos on, 107 , 231 n 53
cultural theory, 67 , 144 , 148 – 49 , 150
currency standards, 55 , 185 nn 17 – 18

debts of Muslims, usurious, 98 , 100 , 224 n 18
de Deo, Pere, 77 – 78 , 206 n 10
the Deposed (Muḥammad III of Granada),
129
Desclot, Bernat, 52 , 58
de Slane, William, 170 n 101
al- Dhakhīra al- saniyya, 31 – 32 , 33
Díaz de Vivar, Rodrigo (El Cid), 67 , 87 ,
96 , 143
divine authority, 69 – 70 ; Aragonese kings’
posture of, 8 , 15 ; human authority and,
6 ; jihād and, 125 ; natural law and, 69
Dominici, Paschasius, 60
Don Enrique, 89
Dufort, Guillelmus, 54
Durkheim, Émile, 150

Echevarría, Ana, 67 , 198 n 86
Eiximenis, Francesc, 71
El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar), 67 , 87 , 96 , 143
el Jenet, Abrahim, 62 , 66 , 73
emigration, Muslim religious duty of, 115 ,
125 – 26 , 134 , 244 n 59
Enlightenment, 142 , 146 – 47 , 149

falcons, 63 , 64 , 198 n 82
Farge, Arlette, 21
Fāṭimids, 28 , 95 , 167 n 77
Ferdinand III of Castile, 90
Fernando IV of Castile, 129
feudal army: decline of, 54 ; not compen-
sated as jenets were, 60
Fez (Fās), 11 , 30 , 61 , 78 , 79 , 90 , 91 , 93 , 121 ,
125 , 133 , 137
Fierro, Maribel, 10 , 81 , 230 n 45
Fijos de Ozmín. See Banū Abī al- ‘Ulā
Fletcher, John, 18
Folch, Ramon, 52
Fourier, Charles, 143
Franco, Francisco, 96 – 97 , 143 – 44
Frederick II: Almohad rationalist political
theology and, 10 ; Aragonese authority
over Tunis and, 12 ; Aragonese court
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