304 index
Ibiza, 7
Ibn Abī ‘Āmir al- Manṣūr (Almanzor), 28
Ibn al- Khaṭīb, 35 – 36 , 120 , 123 – 24 , 240 n 6
Ibn Ḥajar al- Haytamī, 128
Ibn Ḥarīq, 113 , 235 n 74
Ibn Ḥayyān, 20 , 161 n 23 , 167 n 71
Ibn Hūd, 88
Ibn Hudhayr, 49 , 180 n 72 , 248 n 82. See also
Banū Hudhayr
Ibn Jaḥḥāf, 87
Ibn Khaldūn, 27 – 28 ; on al- ‘Abbās b. Raḥḥū,
139 ; on Arabic books in Christian
hands, 170 n 99 ; on Berber women on
North African battlefield, 100 , 222 n 13 ;
on Christian soldiers in North Africa,
89 , 90 – 91 , 215 n 107 ; on fall of Almohad
Empire, 80 , 84 ; on the Ghuzāh, 33 – 34 ,
35 , 37 , 120 , 124 ; on light cavalry, 20 ; on
Marīnid exiles in al- Andalus, 120 – 21 ,
240 nn 8 – 9 ; on Murghim b. Ṣābir, 78 , 84 ,
206 n 13 ; on Muslim rulers recruiting
Christian heavy cavalry, 56 , 186 n 26 ; on
the Zanāta, 27 – 30 , 32 , 33 , 167 nn 70 – 71 ,
167 nn 73 – 74 , 168 n 86 , 169 n 96
Ibn Miqlāsh, 243 n 50
Ibn Rabī‘, 126 , 127
Ibn Rushd (Averroes), 68 , 70 , 81
Ibn Rushd al- Jadd, 126 , 127
Ibn Sa‘īd al- Andalusī, 36
Ibn Tūmart, 9 – 10 , 68 , 81
Iça Abenadriz (‘Īsā b. Idrīs), 38 , 48 – 49 , 50
Idrīs b. ‘Uthmān b. Abī al- ‘Ulā, 122 , 123 , 124
Ifarkhān (Banū Farkhān), 89
imperial authority: jenets in performance
of, 8 ; servitude of religious others and,
12 , 14 , 71 – 74 , 96 – 97 , 141. See also Holy
Roman emperors
Innocent III, 92
Innocent IV, 92
Iqbal, Allama, 260 n 33
Iranian royal guards, pre- Islamic, 95
‘Īsā b. Idrīs (Iça Abenadriz), 38 , 48 – 49 , 50
Islamic law, 115 , 125 – 28 , 230 n 45 , 244 n 57
Islamophilia, noblemen’s complaints of, 6
Ismā‘īl I, 123 , 139
Ivanhoe (Scott), 18
Jaume I: Abū Zayd and, 80 – 81 ; administra-
tive reforms of, 8 , 9 ; Arabic books and,
170 n 99 ; chancery registers of, 22 ; jenets
during reign of, 22 , 24 , 41 ; justifications
for power and, 7 – 8 ; Louis IX of France
in conflict with, 46 ; marriage of Prince
Pere arranged by, 45 – 46 ; rebellious
knights fleeing to Valencia from, 87 – 88 ;
Roman law used by, 70 – 71 ; troubled
final years in reign of, 23 , 43
Jaume II: al- ‘Abbās’s curious collaboration
with, 130 – 39 ; ambition to control Tunis,
12 , 85 ; Arab cavalry recruited by, 26 ; Ar-
chive of Crown of Aragon and, 22 ; cast-
ing self as divinely authorized ruler, 8 ;
debts of jenets’ wives and, 100 ; hostages
from jenets taken by, 101 – 2 , 130 , 137 – 38 ;
Ibn Hudhayr and, 49 , 180 n 72 , 248 n 82 ;
illegitimate son of, 207 n 17 ; intervening
to deal with jenets’ problems, 60 ; jenets
hired by, 49 ; Marīnid sultan’s gifts to,
195 n 70 ; Muḥammad III of Granada and,
129 – 30 , 133 ; nobleman compensated by,
for mule, 60 ; noblemen’s rebellion and,
73 , 205 n 153 ; previously as king of Sicily,
77 , 82 ; sending trusted jenet as ambas-
sador, 62 ; spies in Granada working for,
180 n 72
Jaume Pere, 78
jenet raids, 56 , 186 n 23. See also cavalry,
lightly armored
jenets: aesthetic fascination with, 62 – 63 ; as
agnatic groups, 101 ; aiding rebellions in
Valencia and Murcia, 23 – 25 ; as alliances
of various tribes, 102 ; archival sources
about, 4 , 9 , 16 , 22 – 23 , 40 – 41 ; attacked
by Christian villagers, 65 ; circumscribed
use of, 118 ; collaboration with Christian
troops, 56 – 58 , 65 , 109 , 136 , 137 ; common
humanity with kings and, 102 – 3 ; conflict
with Calatayud villagers, 105 – 10 , 111 ,
112 ; confusion about identity of, 16 – 17 ,
37 – 38 ; Crevillente as recruiting agents
for, 49 ; decline of feudal army and, 54 ;
diffusion of the term to modern period,
17 – 21 ; early appearance in records,
threatening Crown of Aragon, 23 – 24 ;
with elevated positions at the royal
court, 61 – 62 ; etymology of, 21 , 160 n 4 ,
162 n 33 (see also genet); exchanged for
Christian soldiers in Muslim armies, 75 ,
78 – 79 , 85 – 86 , 128 ; exempted from laws
binding Mudéjares, 115 , 118 ; Frederick’s