The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300

by Brian A. Catlos

• ISBN13: 9780521036443
• ISBN10: 0521036445
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is a revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish 'reconquest'. It looks beyond the obvious religious distinctions and delves into the subtleties of identity in the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, uncovering a social dynamic in which sectarian differences comprise only one of the many factors in the causal complex of political, economic and cultural reactions. Beginning with the final stage of independent Muslim rule in the Ebro valley region, the book traces the transformation of Islamic society into mud_jar society under Christian domination. This was a case of social evolution in which Muslims, far from being passive victims of foreign colonisation, took an active part in shaping their institutions and experiences as subjects of the Infidel. Using a diverse range of methodological approaches, this book challenges widely held assumptions concerning Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, and minority-majority relations in general.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of maps

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Note on the citation of sources, dates, places and names

Glossary

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Muslim Domination of the Ebro and its Demise, 700-1200: Introduction

Thaghr and taifa

Christians and Muslims: contact and conquest

Muslims under Christian Rule: Introduction

The financial and judicial administration of MudTjar society

Muslims in the economy of the Christian Ebro

MudTjar ethnicity and Christian society

Muslims and Christian society

MudTjarismo as a social system

Individual and Community in the Christian Ebro: Introduction

Fiscal and confessional identity: the Galips, templar vassals in Zaragoza (1179-1390)

Franquitas and factionalism in Daroca: the Lucera family vs. the Aljama (1267-1302)

Litigation and competition within the Muslim community: the Abdellas of Daroca (1280-1310)

Administrative corruption and royal complicity: Abrahim Abengentor, Caualquem of Huesca (1260-1304)

Overlapping agendas: the career of Mahomet, Alaminus of Borja (1276-1302)

The good, the bad and the indifferent: Christian officials in the Ebro region

Personal histories: the individual, within the community and beyond

Conclusions: MudTjar ethnogenesis

Currency of the thirteenth-century Ebro region

Toponymical variants in archival documents

Rulers of the 'Crown of Aragon', 1050-1300

Select Bibliography

Index

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