Mercedes García-Arenal, Ph.D. (1976) in the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, is Research Professor at the CSIC. She has published extensively on Early Modern Maghreb and on Muslim and Jewish minorities in Spain. Her last book, with G.A. Wiegers is A man of three worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe (John Hopkins UP, 2003)

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One. The Time of the Prophets. The Conversion of the Maghreb to IslamChapter Two. The Rise of the Fa†imid DynastyChapter Three. Berber Prophets and Messianic Rebels in Muslim SpainChapter Four. The Contribution of Legalism to Mahdism: Rigour, Censorship, ViolenceChapter Five. The Contribution of Sufism to Mahdism: Prophethood and GraceChapter Six. The Almohad Revolution and the Mahdi Ibn TumartChapter Seven. Mahdism after the AlmohadsChapter Eight. The Marinids and SharifismChapter Nine. The Rise of the Sa'did DynastyChapter Ten. A˙mad al-Manßur al-DhahabiChapter Eleven. The last Spanish Muslims: Messianic prophetism among the MoriscosChapter Twelve. Ibn Abi Ma˙alli and his adversariesConcluding RemarksSources and BibliographyIndex

Mercedes García-Arenal, Ph.D. (1976) in the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, is Research Professor at the CSIC. She has published extensively on Early Modern Maghreb and on Muslim and Jewish minorities in Spain. Her last book, with G.A. Wiegers is A man of three worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe (John Hopkins UP, 2003)

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One. The Time of the Prophets. The Conversion of the Maghreb to IslamChapter Two. The Rise of the Fa†imid DynastyChapter Three. Berber Prophets and Messianic Rebels in Muslim SpainChapter Four. The Contribution of Legalism to Mahdism: Rigour, Censorship, ViolenceChapter Five. The Contribution of Sufism to Mahdism: Prophethood and GraceChapter Six. The Almohad Revolution and the Mahdi Ibn TumartChapter Seven. Mahdism after the AlmohadsChapter Eight. The Marinids and SharifismChapter Nine. The Rise of the Sa'did DynastyChapter Ten. A˙mad al-Manßur al-DhahabiChapter Eleven. The last Spanish Muslims: Messianic prophetism among the MoriscosChapter Twelve. Ibn Abi Ma˙alli and his adversariesConcluding RemarksSources and BibliographyIndex

Mercedes García-Arenal, Ph.D. (1976) in the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, is Research Professor at the CSIC. She has published extensively on Early Modern Maghreb and on Muslim and Jewish minorities in Spain. Her last book, with G.A. Wiegers is A man of three worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe (John Hopkins UP, 2003)

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One. The Time of the Prophets. The Conversion of the Maghreb to IslamChapter Two. The Rise of the Fa†imid DynastyChapter Three. Berber Prophets and Messianic Rebels in Muslim SpainChapter Four. The Contribution of Legalism to Mahdism: Rigour, Censorship, ViolenceChapter Five. The Contribution of Sufism to Mahdism: Prophethood and GraceChapter Six. The Almohad Revolution and the Mahdi Ibn TumartChapter Seven. Mahdism after the AlmohadsChapter Eight. The Marinids and SharifismChapter Nine. The Rise of the Sa'did DynastyChapter Ten. A˙mad al-Manßur al-DhahabiChapter Eleven. The last Spanish Muslims: Messianic prophetism among the MoriscosChapter Twelve. Ibn Abi Ma˙alli and his adversariesConcluding RemarksSources and BibliographyIndex