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The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate: Ifriqiya and Its Andalusis, 1200-1400 (The Middle Ages Series)

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The thirteenth century marks a turning point within the history of the western Mediterranean. The armies of Castile and Aragon won significant and decisive victories over Muslims in Iberia and took over various essential cities including Cordoba, Seville, Jaen, and Murcia. Chased out of their native cities, numerous Andalusis migrated to Ifr&#299qiyā in northern Africa. There, a newly founded Hafsid dynasty (1229-1574) welcomed members of the Andalusi elite and showered them with honors and high positions at court.

While historians have tended to conceive of Ifr&#299qiyā as a region ruled by the Hafsids, Ramzi Rouighi argues in The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate that the Andalusis who joined the Hafsid court supported economic arrangements and political relationships that effectively prevented regional integration from taking place throughout this period. Rouighi examines an array of documentary, literary, and legal sources to argue that Ifr&#299qiyā used to be integrated neither politically nor economically and that, in consequence, it used to be not a region in a meaningful sense. Through a close reading of narrative sources, especially historical chronicles, Rouighi further argues that the emergence within the late fourteenth century of the political ideology of Emirism accounts for the representation of the rule of the Hafsid dynasty over cities as its rule over the entire of Ifr&#299qiyā. Setting the activities of Andalusis such as the celebrated historian Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406) relating to specific political, economic, and intellectual developments in Ifr&#299qiyā, The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate proposes a counter to the dynastic-centric view of the period that pervades medieval sources and continues to inform most brand new generalizations about the Maghrib and the Mediterranean.

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