TY - BOOK ID - 5508224 TI - The making of a Mediterranean emirate : Ifrīqiyā and its politics, 1200 - 1400 PY - 2011 SN - 9780812243109 0812243102 081220462X 1283897784 PB - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, DB - UniCat KW - Hafsides KW - Africa, North KW - Afrique du Nord KW - History KW - Historiography. KW - Histoire KW - Historiographie KW - Geschichtsschreibung KW - Hafsiden KW - Geschichte 1200-1400 KW - Nordafrika KW - Historiography KW - Geschiedenis van Spanje KW - Geschiedenis van Afrika KW - anno 1200-1499 KW - Andalusië KW - Maghreb KW - History of Spain KW - History of Africa KW - Andalusia KW - Geschichtsschreibung. KW - Hafsides. KW - Barbary States KW - Maghrib KW - North Africa KW - HISTORY / Medieval. KW - Nordafrika. KW - European History. KW - History. KW - Medieval and Renaissance Studies. KW - World History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5508224 AB - The thirteenth century marks a turning point in the history of the western Mediterranean. The armies of Castile and Aragon won significant and decisive victories over Muslims in Iberia and took over a number of important cities including Cordoba, Seville, Jaen, and Murcia. Chased out of their native cities, a large number of Andalusis migrated to Ifrīqiyā in northern Africa. There, a newly founded Hafsid dynasty (1229-1574) welcomed members of the Andalusi elite and showered them with honors and high positions at court.While historians have tended to conceive of Ifrīqiyā as a region ruled by the Hafsids, Ramzi Rouighi argues in The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate that the Andalusis who joined the Hafsid court supported economic arrangements and political relationships that effectively prevented regional integration from taking place during this period. Rouighi examines an array of documentary, literary, and legal sources to argue that Ifrīqiyā was integrated neither politically nor economically and that, consequently, it was not a region in a meaningful sense. Through a close reading of narrative sources, especially historical chronicles, Rouighi further argues that the emergence in the late fourteenth century of the political ideology of Emirism accounts for the representation of the rule of the Hafsid dynasty over cities as its rule over the whole of Ifrīqiyā. Setting the activities of Andalusis such as the celebrated historian Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406) in relation to specific political, economic, and intellectual developments in Ifrīqiyā, The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate proposes a counter to the dynastic-centric view of the period that pervades medieval sources and continues to inform most modern generalizations about the Maghrib and the Mediterranean. ER -