The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate: Ifriqiya and Its Andalusis, 1200-1400
ISBN: 9780812204629
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Africa North -- History -- 647–1517; Africa North -- Historiography; Hafsides;

This book argues that between 1200 and 1400 Ifrīqiy#257; was not an economic or political region. It shows how Emirism, a political ideology that emerged at the end of the fourteenth century, led both medieval sources and modern historians to imagine Ifrīqiy#257; as a region.


Ramzi Rouighi teaches history at the University of Southern California.
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