Al-Masāq, Volume 33, Issue 1 (2021)

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Authority Beyond Tribe and State in the Early Medieval Maghrib

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Authority beyond Tribe and State in the “Middle Maghrib”
Corisande Fenwick & Andy Merrills
Pages: 1-13
Published online: 11 Jan 2021
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The Men Who Would Be King: Moorish Political Hierarchies and Imperial Policy in Byzantine Africa
Andy Merrills
Pages: 14-29
Published online: 27 Oct 2020
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Identifying the Rustamid Imamate. State Building and Urban Foundation through the Case of Tāhart
Cyrille Aillet
Pages: 30-46
Published online: 06 Dec 2020
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Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghrib: The Impact of Climate on the Economic, Social and Political Reorganisation of the Maghrib al-Aqṣā in the Eighth–Ninth Centuries: The Case of Sijilmāsa (Morocco)
Chloé Capel
Pages: 47-65
Published online: 18 Jan 2021
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The Banū Yahrāsan, Political and Sacred Leaders in Ibāḍī Djerba
Virginie Prevost
Pages: 66-84
Published online: 26 Nov 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs
Thomas W. Smith and Andrew D. Buck (eds.), Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru/University of Wales Press, Caerdydd/Cardiff (2019), 160 pages: £24.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1786835048
Jason T. Roche
Pages: 85-86
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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Italy and Early Medieval Europe: Papers for Chris Wickham
Ross Balzaretti, Julia Barrow and Patricia Skinner (eds.), (Oxford: OUP, 2018). (xiv + 567 pp) £90. ISBN 978-0-15-877760-1
Christopher Heath
Pages: 87-89
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Pegolotti’s Ayas–Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context
Thomas Sinclair (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies, Volume 25). London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 450 pp., £140 ISBN: 978-0754665168
Alasdair C. Grant
Pages: 89-92
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 1200-1500
Jan Hinrich Hagedorn [Mamluk Studies, volume 21], Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Bonn: Bonn University Press (2020), 245 pp., ill., €32.99/US $44.95 (hardback), ISBN: 9783847110910
Johan MacKechnie
Pages: 92-93
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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The Normans and the ‘Norman Edge’: Peoples, Polities and Identities on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe
ed. Keith J. Stringer and Andrew Jotischky (Routledge: Abingdon, 2019), £130.00, xi + 348 pp. ISBN: 978-1472459787
Nicholas Morton
Pages: 94-95
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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Roger II of Sicily: Family, Faith, and Empire in the Medieval Mediterranean World
Dawn Marie Hayes, Medieval Identities: Socio-Cultural Spaces VII (Brepols: Turnhout, 2020), 220 pp. £73.36, ISBN 978-2503581408
Nicholas Morton
Pages: 95-97
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought
Luke B. Yarbrough, 2019, [Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xiv + 361 pp., £85.50/US $120.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781108496605
Brian A. Catlos
Pages: 97-99
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325
Nathan Hofer, Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2015), viii + 304 pp. £70, ISBN 978-0748694211
Nicholas Morton
Pages: 99-101
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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The Other Side of Empire. Just War in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Early Modern Spain
2020, Cornell University Press, xiv + 261 pp., £43 ISBN: 978-1501740121
David Abulafia
Pages: 101-104
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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The Lost Archive. Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
Marina Rustow, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford (2020), 598 pages: £38 (hardback) ISBN 978-0691156477
Esther-Miriam Wagner
Pages: 104-106
Published online: 08 Feb 2021
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