This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest.

CONTENTS:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Geographical Environment and Historical Context
2. The Rise of the Banu’l-Ahmar
3. Enclaves and Anomalies
4. Mudejar Status: The Teachings of the Islamic Lawyers; Christian Attitudes and Doctrines
5. Mudejar Communities: Castile
6. Mudejar Legal Codes from Castile
7. Mudejar Communities: Aragon
8. Mudejar Communities: Valencia
9. Mudejar Communities: Navarre
10. Muhammad II (1273-1302)
11. Muhammad III (1302-1309)
12. Nasr (1309-1314); Isma’il (1314-1325); Muhammad IV (1325-1333)
13. Yusuf I (1333-1354)
14. Muhammad V (1354-1391): A Reign Interrupted by Those of Isma’il and Muhammad VI
15. Yusuf II (Abu’L-Hajjaj) (1391-1392); Muhammad VII (1392-1408); Yusuf III (1408-1417)
16. The Interlocking Reigns of Muhammad VIII, Muhammad IX, Muhammad X, Muhammad XI, Yusuf IV, and Yusuf V (1417-1452)
17. Sa’d (1453-1464) and Abu’l-Hasan ’Ali (1464-1482)
18. The Final Decade of Granadan Independence (1482-1491)
19. All Mudejars Now: Islamic Spain (1492-1500)
Bibliography
Index

AUTHOR:

L. P. Harvey is professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of London and a fellow of King’s College, London. He is currently a research associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Harvey’s previous book, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500, is also published by the University of Chicago Press.