Spanning the Strait

Yuen-Gen Liang, Ph.D. (2005) Princeton University, is Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). He is author of Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). He is Founder and Executive Director of the Spain-North Africa Project.Abigail Krasner Balbale, Ph.D. (2012) Harvard University, is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center in New York. She focuses on the cultural history of the medieval western Mediterranean, and is working on a manuscript about the intersections of religion, political power and cultural production in twelfth-century Iberia and the Maghrib.Andrew Devereux, Ph.D. (2011) Johns Hopkins University, is an assistant professor of History at Loyola Marymount University. He published “North Africa in Early Modern Spanish Political Thought,” (JSCS, v.12 no. 3 (Sept. 2011): 275-291).Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Ph.D. (2009) Yale University, is an assistant professor of history at the American University in Cairo. His most recent article is "The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier, 1085-1350," (Oxford, 2013).

• IntroductionYuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux and Camilo Gomez-Rivas: Unity and Disunity across the Strait of Gibraltar ... 1ArticlesAdam Gaiser, Slaves and Silver across the Strait of Gibraltar: Politics and Trade between Umayyad Iberia and Khārijite North Africa ... 41Linda G. Jones,The Preaching of the Almohads: Loyalty and Resistance across the Strait of Gibraltar ... 71Hussein Fancy, The Last Almohads: Universal Sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon ... 102S.J. Pearce, “The Types of Wisdom Are Two in Number”: Judah ibn Tibbon’s Quotation from the Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm al-Dīn ... 137David Coleman, Of Corsairs, Converts and Renegades: Forms and Functions of Coastal Raiding on Both Sides of the Far Western Mediterranean, 1490-1540 ... 167Marya T. Green-Mercado, The Mahdī in Valencia: Messianism, Apocalypticism and Morisco Rebellions in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain ... 193Book ReviewsClifford R. Backman, on Samantha Kelly, The ‘Cronaca di Partenope’: An Introduction to and Critical Edition of the First Vernacular History of Naples, c. 1350 ... 221Travis Bruce, on Ramzi Rouighi, The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate. Ifrīqiyā and Its Andalusis, 1200-1400 ... 224Patrick Harris, on Cyrille Aillet, Les Mozarabes: Christianisme, Islamisation et Arabisation en Péninsule Ibérique (IXe-XIIe Siecle) ... 228Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, on D. Freidenreich, Foreigners and their Food. Constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law ... 231Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, on Patricia A. Baker, Han Nijdam and Karine van’t Land, eds., Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings, and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages ... 238Alexandra Cuffel, on Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination ... 243Pamela A. Patton, on Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer, eds., Between Judaism and Christianity: Art Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher ... 248Miguel Angel Vazquez, on Ana Labarta, Carmen Barcelo and Josefina Veglison, Valencia arab en prosa i vers ... 252Index ... 259