Notes
Introduction
- See, for instance, ACA, CR, Jaume II, caixa 137 , Templarios, no. 101. Cf. the
description of the Marīnid prince Abū Ya‘qūb’s raid across the Spanish frontier in
1275 : Ibn Khaldūn, Kitāb al- ‘ibar wa- dīwān al- mubtada’ wa’l- khabar f ī ayyām al-
‘arab wa’l- ‘ajam wa’l- barbar wa- man ‘āṣarahum min dhawī al- sultān al- akbar, ed.
‘Ādil b. Sa‘d, VII: 200. For more on frontier warfare, see Rachel Arié, L’Espagne
Musulmane au temps des Nasrides ( 1232 – 1492 ); María Teresa Ferrer i Mallol, “La
organización militar en Cataluña en la Edad Media,” Revista de historia militar
Extra 1 ( 2001 ): 119 – 222 ; Francisco García Fitz, Castilla y León frente al Islam:
estrategias de expansión y tácticas militares (siglos XI– XIII); and Josep Torró
Abad, El naixement d’una colònia: dominació i resistència a la frontera Valenciana,
1238 – 1276. - On these revolts in Valencia, see Robert Ignatius Burns, Islam under the Cru-
saders: Colonial Survival in the Thirteenth- Century Kingdom of Valencia, 323 – 32 ;
and idem, “The Crusade against Al- Azraq: A Thirteenth- Century Mudejar Re-
volt in International Perspective,” American Historical Review 93 ( 1988 ): 80 – 106.
The Castilian word Mudéjar (Cat. Mudèixar) comes from the Arabic mudajjan,
literally “those who remain or lag behind.” It should be noted, however, that the
term rarely appears in Catalan or Castilian texts before the fifteenth century. More
commonly, one sees “sarraceni,” “moros,” or “sarraï.” See EI 2 , s.v. “mudéjar,” for
more detail. - For translated documents, see ACA, R. 52 , fol. 68 v ( 4 Nov. 1284 ): “... sar-
raceni janeti [qui] in nostro servicio venerant sibi debebant cum duobus publi-
cis instrumentis quorum unum est moriscum et aliud christianite scriptum... .”
On impounding swords, see ACA, R. 58 , fol. 22 v ( 3 May 1285 ): “Baiulo Exatium
quod donet Alaçeno militi Sarraceno nuncio Cahim filio Jahie Abennaquem quin-
quaginta solidos \ regalium / pro redimendis et quitandis ensibus quos idem Ala-
çenus et alii qui cum eo venerunt pignori obligaverunt in Exatium.” By contrast,