Abigail Krasner Balbale

The Wolf King

Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in Al-Andalus. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,9 cm / 15,3 cm / 2,5 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 360 Seiten
EAN 9781501781384
Veröffentlicht März 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Cornell University Press
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Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Winner of the Dionisius A. Agius Book Prize 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 Sad ibn Ahmad ibn Mardan-sh (r. 1147-1172). Celebrated in Castilian and Latin sources as el rey lobo/rex lupus and denigrated by Almohad and later Arabic sources as irreligious and disloyal to fellow Muslims because he fought the Almohads and served as vassal to the Castilians, Ibn Mardan-sh ruled a kingdom that at its peak constituted nearly half of al-Andalus and served as an important buffer between the Almohads and the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. Through a close examination of contemporary sources across the region, Abigail Krasner Balbale shows that Ibn Mardan-sh's short-lived dynasty was actually an attempt to integrate al-Andalus more closely with the Islamic East-particularly the Abbasid caliphate. At stake in his battles against the Almohads was the very idea of the caliphate in this period, as well as who could define righteous religious authority. The Wolf King makes effective use of chronicles, chancery documents, poetry, architecture, coinage, and artifacts to uncover how Ibn Mardan-sh adapted language and cultural forms from around the Islamic world to assert and consolidate power-and then tracks how these strategies, and the memory of Ibn Mardan-sh more generally, influenced expressions of kingship in subsequent periods. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Portrait

Abigail Krasner Balbale is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University and the coauthor of The Arts of Intimacy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Ibn Mardanish as Historical Figure and Historiographic Subject
1. Caliph and Madhi: The Battle over Power in the Islamic Middle Period
2. Rebel against the Truth: Almohad Visions of Ibn Mardanish
3. Filiative Networks: Lineage and Legitimacy in Sharq al-Andalus
4. Material Genealogies and the Construction of Power
5. Vassals, Traders, and Kings: Economic and Political Networks in the Western Mediterranean
6. Renaissance and Assimilation after the Almohad Conquest
7. The Reconquista, a Lost Paradise, and Other Teleologies

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