index 309
Smith, Adam, 143
social sciences, 151 , 263 nn 58 – 59 ; Ibn
Khaldūn and, 27
sovereign exception, 69 , 70 , 145
sovereignty: Almohad ideas of, 81 ; of God,
69 – 70 ; Gordon on inescapable problem
of, 147 ; religious interaction in emer-
gence of, 14 ; in Roman law, 69 ; Schmitt
on, 69 , 145. See also divine authority;
imperial authority
sovereignty of Aragonese kings: as chal-
lenged aspiration, 8 , 9 , 13 , 15 ; chal-
lenged by noblemen, 72 – 73 ; denied
altogether by jenets, 15 ; expressed by
treating foreign soldiers as slaves, 12 ,
96 ; gift- giving rituals and, 64 ; historical
context of, 151 ; inability to enforce, 110 ;
maintained through evasion and indeci-
sion, 13 , 112 ; religious difference and,
13 , 151 ; tensions at Calatayud and, 109
Spanish Civil War, 59 , 143
spoils of war, 65 ; difficulty of disposing of,
104 – 6 , 133 ; Ghuzāh compensated by
Naṣrids with, 65 , 122 ; jenets’ selling of,
105 – 6 , 227 n 34 , 230 n 44 ; king’s quinta
granted to jenets, 65 , 104 , 105 , 131 ;
Muslim jurists on sharing with Chris-
tians, 127
Strauss, Leo, 147
Strayer, Joseph, 54 , 69
Sunnī traditions, Ibn Tūmart and, 9
Tahiri, Ahmad, 29
Ṭā’ifa period, 87 – 88
Tangerines (Tanjiyyūn), 28
Tapia y Salcedo, Gregorio, 19
Taubes, Jacob, 260 n 33
tawḥīd, 9 , 81
Taylor, Charles, 147
Templar knights, 32 , 57 , 89 , 117 , 134 – 37 ,
253 n 103
Thierry and Theodoret (Fletcher), 18
Thoreau, Henry David, 74
Tierney, Brian, 69
Tolan, John, 142
tolerance: Aragonese kings use of jenets
and, 141 ; convivencia debates and, 59 ,
142 , 143 , 144 – 45 ; secular bias and, 5
transcendence, 146 – 47 , 149 , 263 n 65
Trastámara kings, Moorish Guard of, 66 – 67
Treaty of Agreda, 133 , 138 , 249 n 87
Tripoli, siege of, in 1289 , 84
Tunart, 48 , 50
Tunis: Abenmenassé on secret missions
to, 45 ; Alfons II’s assertion of author-
ity over, 77 , 83 ; Aragonese ambition to
control, 85 ; Aragonese navy in 1282 at,
47 , 77 ; Aragonese peace with, 31 , 77 ;
Christian militias in, 93 ; coup of 1279
at, 44 , 46 , 76 ; French crusade against, in
1270 , 76 ; proposed joint invasion with
Marīnids, 78. See also Ḥafṣids
Turkic military slaves, 94 , 95
Turkic royal guards, 95 , 96Umayyads, 28 – 29 , 167 nn 73 – 74 , 167 n 77 ; for-
eign Christian soldiers used by, 86 – 87 ;
hostages taken from Zanāta troops of,
226 n 23 ; military slaves of, 96
Unions, 8 – 9 , 72 – 73 , 77 , 108 , 109 , 117 , 118.
See also noblemen challenging Ara-
gonese kings
Usatges de Barcelona, 6 , 7 , 54
al- ‘Utbī, 126 , 127
‘Uthmān (Açmon, son of Abū Dabbūs), 80 ,
82 , 84 , 85
‘Uthmān b. Abī al- ‘Ulā, 122 , 123Valencia: Abenmenassé granted lands in,
45 ; Abū Zayd as governor of, 80 ; beauti-
ful nature of, 113 ; commercial artery
between Granada and, 49 ; five jenets
arriving in, 1 ; Ibn Jaḥḥāf as ruler of, 87 ;
Jaume I’s conquest of, 7 , 11 , 22 , 23 , 31 ,
80 – 81 , 113 – 14 ; Jaume II’s jenets causing
unrest in, 134 ; Jewish bailiffs’ forced dis-
missal in, 73 ; Lancia made governor of,
44 ; Muslim life and autonomy in, 114 ,
235 n 78 , 235 n 80 , 236 nn 81 – 82 ; Muslim
uprisings in, 23 – 25 , 32 , 33 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ;
population ordered to pay for jenets,
182 n 89 ; subject Muslim population of,
7 , 23 , 24 – 25 , 112 – 15 , 138 – 39 (see also
Mudéjares)
van Koningsveld, P. S., 128
Vargas Machuca, Bernardo de, 20
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare), 18
Viello, Mahomet el, 57
Volunteers of the Faith, 170 n 101. See also
al- Ghuzāh al- Mujāhidūn