Islam Under the Crusaders : : Colonial Survival in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia / / Robert Ignatius Burns.

The struggle between Islam and the Crusaders comprised a dialogue of cultures on a broad geographic scale and a wide expanse of time, a perennial seesaw of conquest in the West as in the East. Father Burns' pioneering work on Valencia has demonstrated that the inner reality of this sustained co...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1974
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1679
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Physical Description:1 online resource (538 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustration
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • The Physical-Historical Milieu
  • I. The King's Other Kingdom
  • II. Death of an Islamic Empire
  • III. The Physical Setting
  • IV. The Human Geography
  • V. City and Country: Basic Classes
  • The Juridical-Religious Milieu
  • VI. Surrender Terms: Universality and Pattern
  • VII. Burriana, Valencia, and the Townsmen
  • VIII. Incorporation: Motives and Mechanisms
  • IX. Islam: An Established Religion
  • X. The Law and Its Interpreters
  • XI. Christians and the Islamic Judiciary
  • The Political-Military Milieu
  • XII. The Muslim in the Feudal Order
  • XIII. The Military Aristocracy
  • XIV. Patriot Mudejar Lords
  • XV. Horizontal Power: The Rulers
  • XVI. The City-State Polities
  • XVII. The Islamic Establishment: Vertical Power
  • Bibliography
  • Index