300 index
Abū Yūsuf (cont.)
as extension of his jihād, 214 n 13 ; sends
ambassadors to Castile in 1278 , 216 n 122 ;
wives of warriors fighting for, 222 n 13
Abū Zayd: as Almohad governor, 11 ;
Blasco de Alagón defects to court of,
88 ; Christian and Muslim descendants
of, 208 n 29 ; conversion to Christianity,
80 – 82
Accursius, 69 , 70
adalids, 58
Adorno, Anselm, 93
Agamben, Giorgio, 69 , 147 , 159 n 26
Agreda, Treaty of, 133 , 138 , 249 n 87
Alagón, Artal de, 73 , 88
Alagón, Blasco de, 87 – 88
Alagón, Giles de, 88
a la jineta, 19 – 20 , 62 , 63 ; adopted by Gra-
nadan cavalry, 242 n 38 ; falconry and,
198 n 82. See also cavalry, lightly armored
albaranum (al- barā’a), 55
Albert, Pere, 70
Alexander II, 87
Alfons I, archive in the reign of, 22
Alfons II: almogàvers’ conflict with jenets
and, 111 – 12 ; casting self as divinely au-
thorized ruler, 8 ; collaboration of jenets
with Christian troops and, 56 – 57 ; con-
quest of Minorca by, 116 ; gifts and privi-
leges for jenets and, 59 – 61 , 62 ; Guerra
Jenetorum and, 117 , 238 n 101 ; Ḥafṣids
and, 12 , 79 , 82 – 84 ; Iça Abenadriz (‘Īsā b.
Idrīs) and, 49 ; inheriting the crown on his
father’s death, 77 ; intervening for jenets
against villagers, 105 – 6 , 107 – 10 , 227 n 34 ,
230 n 44 , 232 n 56 , 232 n 62 ; intervening
on behalf of jenet’s widow, 103 ; inviting
captains of jenets residing in Granada,
60 – 61 ; sending Muslim ambassadors to
Granada, 61 – 62 ; three missions to North
Africa from, 77 – 79 , 85 , 91 ; treaty with
‘Abd al- Wāḥid, 82 – 84 , 85 , 91 ; using jenets
to attack the Unions, 73
Alfons III, 2 ; chancery registers of, 9 , 22 ;
self- coronation of, 71
Alfonso VII of Léon, 88
Alfonso VIII of Castile, 87
Alfonso X of Castile: Almohad rationalist
political theology and, 10 ; cavalry styles
in time of, 36 ; in conflict with Granada,
124 ; peace with Fez following death of,
33 ; as uncle of Don Juan Manuel, 56
Alfonso XI of Castile, 24
Algeciras, Marīnid fortress at, 122 , 124 , 138 ,
169 n 96 , 216 n 122
Alhaig (al- Ḥājj), 134 , 137
‘Alī b. Yūsuf b. Tāshf īn, 88
aliuba or aljuba (al- jubba), 52 , 66 , 99 ,
197 n 79 , 245 n 70
Almanzor (Ibn Abī ‘Āmir al- Manṣūr), 28
Almentauri, Muça, 62 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 102 – 3 ,
114 – 15 , 220 n 1
Almería (al- Mariyya), 48 , 49 , 130 , 135 ,
240 n 1 ; the crusade against, 138 – 39
almexia (al- maḥshiya), 66
almogàvers, 58 , 106 , 110 – 11 , 117 , 230 n 44
Almohads, 9 – 11 ; Aragonese kings casting
themselves as heirs of, 75 ; Christians in
armies and courts of, 87 , 89 – 90 , 93 ; col-
lapse of Almohad Caliphate, 11 , 79 – 80 ,
87 , 125 ; hostile to religious interaction,
87 ; Ibn Khaldūn on, 29 , 30 , 168 n 86 ; Jew-
ish administrators for, 55 ; military slaves
of, 96 ; rationalist political philosophy of,
68 , 81 – 82
Almoravids, 29 , 30 , 87 , 88 , 96
Alterachs y Avarilló, Jeroni, 16
‘Āmir b. Idrīs, 34 , 50
al- Andalus: under Almohad Caliphate,
10 , 11 ; Christians living under Islamic
rule in, 26 ; Ibn Khaldūn on tribes and
soldiers in, 28 – 29 ; Marīnids’ aiding Mus-
lims of, 12 ; Muslim soldiers recruited
from, 4
Angevins, 8 , 46 , 47 , 76 , 77
Aquinas, Thomas, 70
Arabic science books in Christian hands,
33 , 170 n 99
Arabic sources, 27 – 29 , 37 – 38 , 120. See also
Ibn Khaldūn
Arab troops: alongside jenets, 26 ; displaced
on Muslim- Christian frontier, 28 ; in the
Ghuzāh, 12 , 35 – 36 ; lightly armored cav-
alry of, 19 – 20 ; in Marīnid cavalry, 32 , 33
Aragonese empire, 6 – 9
Aragonese kings: casting selves as Holy Ro-
man emperors, 8 , 14 , 46 , 68 , 71 , 75 ; chart
of, 2 (see also specific kings); controlling
Christian soldiers in North Africa, 79 ,
91 – 92 , 93 ; exploiting tensions between