This book argues that between 1200 and 1400 Ifrīqiyā 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 Ifrīqiyā as a region.

The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate
Ifriqiya and Its Andalusis, 1200-1400

Ramzi Rouighi

2011 | 248 pages | Cloth $55.00
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Orientations

PART I. THE LIMITS OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION
Chapter 1. The Politics of the Emirate
Chapter 2. Taxation and Land Tenure
Chapter 3. Between Land and Sea

PART II. EMIRISM AND THE MAKING OF A REGION
Chapter 4. The Age of the Emir
Chapter 5. Learning and the Emirate
Chapter 6. Emirism and the Writing of History
Conclusion: Departures

List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index