The Wolf King : : Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus / / Abigail Krasner Balbale.
The Wolf King explores how political power was conceptualized, constructed, and wielded in twelfth-century al-Andalus, focusing on the eventful reign of Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Mardanīsh (r. 1147–1172). Celebrated in Castilian and Latin sources as Rey Lobo/Rex Lupus and denigrated by Almohad and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 64 b&w halftones, 4 maps, 1 chart |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction: Ibn Mardanīsh as Historical Figure and Historiographic Subject
- Chapter 1 Caliph and Mahdī: The Battle over Power in the Islamic Middle Period
- Chapter 2 Rebel against the Truth: Almohad Visions of Ibn Mardanīsh
- Chapter 3 Filiative Networks: Lineage and Legitimacy in Sharq al-Andalus
- Chapter 4 Material Genealogies and the Construction of Power
- Chapter 5 Vassals, Traders, and Kings: Economic and Political Networks in the Western Mediterranean
- Chapter 6 Resistance and Assimilation after the Almohad Conquest
- Chapter 7 The Reconquista, a Lost Paradise, and Other Teleologies
- Postscript: Medieval Stories, Modern Anxieties
- Bibliography
- Index