Introduction / Amira K. Bennison -- Islam and the 'great divergence' : the case of the Moroccan Marīnid Empire, 1269-1465 CE / Maya Shatzmiller -- Writing history as a political act : Ibn Khaldūn, ʻAṣabiyya and legitimacy / Allen J. Fromherz -- The genealogical legitimization of the Naṣrid dynasty : the alleged Anṣārī origins of the Banū Naṣr / Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo -- Jihād as a means of political legitimation in thirteenth-century Sharq al-Andalus / Abigail Krasner Balbale -- Hounouring the Prophet's family : a comparison of the approaches to political legitimacy of Abūʼl-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Marīnī and Aḥmad al-Manṣūr al-Saʻdī / Stephen Cory -- ʻAzafid Ceuta, Mawlid al-Nabī and the development of Marīnid strategies of legitimation / James A.O.C. Brown -- On Muḥammad V, Ibn al-Khaṭīb and Sufism / Cynthia Robinson and Amalia Zomeño -- Hospitality, charity and political legitimacy in pre-modern Morocco / Mohamed El Mansour -- Drums, banners and baraka : symbols of authority during the first century of Marīnid rule, 1250-1350 / Amira K. Bennison -- The ransom industry and the expectation of refuge on the western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian frontier, 1085-1350 / Camilo Gómez-Rivas -- Nomadic populations and the challenge to political legitimacy : three cases from the medieval Islamic west / Russell Hopley.
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