Across the Mediterranean Frontiers: Trade, Politics and Religion, 650 - 1450: Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of ... 8 - 11 (International Medieval Research)

Using insights derived from the works of the great annaliste historian Fernand Braudel and those of David Abulafia, this volume aims at presenting a fully-rounded picture of the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean between the years 650 and 1450. It ranges from discussions on Islamic Spain and Sicily through essays on economic and cultural exchange to an examination of Islamic and western politics and religious thought. It also surveys work and warfare in some of the most fascinating centuries of the medieval period and concludes with a profound assessment of the Islamic sources and their transmission. This is a magisterial volume which no historian of the Mediterranean will wish to be without. Dionisius A. Agius is Senior Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Leeds. He is author and editor of several books. His research interests include Arabic dialectology, the semantics of material culture in medieval Arabic travel and geography literature and the medieval Mediterranean. Ian Richard Netton is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Leeds. He is author or editor of several books in the field of Middle Eastern Studies. His principal research interests are Islamic philosophy and theology, Sufism and Medieval Islamic travellers. His interest in Mediterranean Studies was aroused by his studies of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa and Ibn Jubayr. Front Matter ("Contents", "Acknowledgements", "Notes about the Contributors", "Editors' Introduction"), p. i Free Access The Impact of the Orient: Economic Interactions between East and West in the Medieval Mediterranean, p. 1 David Abulafia https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00002 I. Islamic Spain and Sicily Phoenician Origins of the Mosque of Cordoba, Madina Azahara and the Alhambra, p. 43 Marvin H. Mills https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00003 La Invasión Árabe y el Inicio de la 'Reconquista' en el Noroeste de la Península Ibérica (93-251/711-865), p. 61 M. Jorge López Quiroga, Mónica Rodríguez Lovelle https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00004 The Hohenstaufen Heritage of Costanza of Sicily and the Mediterranean Expansion of the Crown of Aragon in the Later Thirteenth Century, p. 87 Marta VanLandingham https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00005 Heresy and Holiness in a Mediterranean Dynasty: the House of Barcelona in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, p. 105 Nikolas Jaspert https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00006 II. Economic and cultural exchanges Pisa and Catalonia Between the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, p. 139 Silvia Orvietani Busch https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00007 Datini and Venice: News from the Mediterranean Trade Network, p. 157 Eleanor A. Congdon https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00008 Perceptions of the East in Fourteenth-Century Italian Merchants' Manuals, p. 173 John E. Dotson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00009 III. Islamic and western politics: religious thought Averroes'Commentary on Plato's Republic, and the Missing Politics, p. 195 Oliver Leaman https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00010 Al-Ghazālī, Metaphor and Logic, p. 205 Salim Kemal https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00011 The Influence of the Arabic Pseudo-Empedocles on Medieval Latin Philosophy: Myth or Reality?, p. 225 Daniel De Smet https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00012 The Paradise and the City: Preliminary Remarks on Muslim Sacral Geography, p. 235 Jan M. F. Van Reeth https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00013 The Basic Postulates of Ṣūfism in the Poetry of Yūnus Emre, p. 255 Xénia Celnarová https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00014 IV. Work and warfare in the Mediterranean: across the frontiers The Genoese Art of Warfare, p. 269 Gabriella Airaldi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00015 Repercusiones de la Piratería Mediterránea y Atlántica en el Comercio Exterior Castellano a Finales de la Edad Media, p. 283 Juan Manuel Bello León https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00016 Historical-Linguistic Reliablity of Muqaddasī’s Information on Types of Ships, p. 303 Dionisius A. Agius https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00017 V. Islamic sources and transmission Para una Nomenclatura Acerca de la Indumentaria Islámica en Al-Andalus, p. 333 Dolores Serrano-Niza https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00018 Ibn Baṭṭūṭa y las Escuelas Jurídicas en los Países del Mediterráneo, p. 347 María Arcas Campoy https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00019 Textual Cohesion of the Aljamiado Hadith de Yuçuf, p. 365 Esther M. Martínez https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00020 Translation as seen by al-Jāḥiẓ and Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq: Observer Versus Practitioner, p. 385 Myriam Salama Carr https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00021 La Littérature Arabe Représentée dans les Bibliothèques de Waqf en Bulgarie au XIXe siècle, p. 395 Stoyanka Kenderova https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.4.00022 Back Matter ("General Index"), p. 411