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.

The Wolf King is an important work of interdisciplinary and comparative history that employs an array of textual, visual, and material evidence to reincorporate al-Andalus into the broader world of the medieval Mediterranean.(Mediterranean Historical Review) This meticulous exploration of the figure of Ibn Mardanīsh allows us to reformulate the understanding we have of the history of Islam in the West in one of the last phases of Muslim supremacy in the Iberian Peninsula, showing the plurality of strategies adopted by the political authorities of the time to respond to the changing times.(Studi Magrebini) In this richly sourced, nuanced, and insightful study of the twelfth-century Wolf King Ibn Mardanīsh, Abigail Balbale has given us the gift of a rigorous and methodologically innovative historical study that deepens our understanding not just of the subject of her study but the subfield to which he belongs as well.(Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)

• Introduction: Ibn Mardanish as Historical Figure and Historiographic Subject1. Caliph and Madhi: The Battle over Power in the Islamic Middle Period2. Rebel against the Truth: Almohad Visions of Ibn Mardanish3. Filiative Networks: Lineage and Legitimacy in Sharq al-Andalus4. Material Genealogies and the Construction of Power5. Vassals, Traders, and Kings: Economic and Political Networks in the Western Mediterranean6. Renaissance and Assimilation after the Almohad Conquest7. The Reconquista, a Lost Paradise, and Other Teleologies

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.

The Wolf King is an important work of interdisciplinary and comparative history that employs an array of textual, visual, and material evidence to reincorporate al-Andalus into the broader world of the medieval Mediterranean.(Mediterranean Historical Review) This meticulous exploration of the figure of Ibn Mardanīsh allows us to reformulate the understanding we have of the history of Islam in the West in one of the last phases of Muslim supremacy in the Iberian Peninsula, showing the plurality of strategies adopted by the political authorities of the time to respond to the changing times.(Studi Magrebini) In this richly sourced, nuanced, and insightful study of the twelfth-century Wolf King Ibn Mardanīsh, Abigail Balbale has given us the gift of a rigorous and methodologically innovative historical study that deepens our understanding not just of the subject of her study but the subfield to which he belongs as well.(Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)

• Introduction: Ibn Mardanish as Historical Figure and Historiographic Subject1. Caliph and Madhi: The Battle over Power in the Islamic Middle Period2. Rebel against the Truth: Almohad Visions of Ibn Mardanish3. Filiative Networks: Lineage and Legitimacy in Sharq al-Andalus4. Material Genealogies and the Construction of Power5. Vassals, Traders, and Kings: Economic and Political Networks in the Western Mediterranean6. Renaissance and Assimilation after the Almohad Conquest7. The Reconquista, a Lost Paradise, and Other Teleologies

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.

The Wolf King is an important work of interdisciplinary and comparative history that employs an array of textual, visual, and material evidence to reincorporate al-Andalus into the broader world of the medieval Mediterranean.(Mediterranean Historical Review) This meticulous exploration of the figure of Ibn Mardanīsh allows us to reformulate the understanding we have of the history of Islam in the West in one of the last phases of Muslim supremacy in the Iberian Peninsula, showing the plurality of strategies adopted by the political authorities of the time to respond to the changing times.(Studi Magrebini) In this richly sourced, nuanced, and insightful study of the twelfth-century Wolf King Ibn Mardanīsh, Abigail Balbale has given us the gift of a rigorous and methodologically innovative historical study that deepens our understanding not just of the subject of her study but the subfield to which he belongs as well.(Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)

• Introduction: Ibn Mardanish as Historical Figure and Historiographic Subject1. Caliph and Madhi: The Battle over Power in the Islamic Middle Period2. Rebel against the Truth: Almohad Visions of Ibn Mardanish3. Filiative Networks: Lineage and Legitimacy in Sharq al-Andalus4. Material Genealogies and the Construction of Power5. Vassals, Traders, and Kings: Economic and Political Networks in the Western Mediterranean6. Renaissance and Assimilation after the Almohad Conquest7. The Reconquista, a Lost Paradise, and Other Teleologies