Guardians of Islam: Religious Authority and Muslim Communities of Late Medieval Spain

Kathryn A. Miller

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October, 2008
Cloth, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13612-9
$50.00 / £34.50

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Muslim Exclaves in Christian Spain

1. On the Border of Infidelity

2. From Dar al-Islam to Dar al-Harb: Landscapes of Mudejar Spain

3. Transmitting Knowledge and Building Networks

4. Write It Down!

5. Pretending to Be Jurists

6. The Scholar’s Jihad, the Mudejar Mosque, and Preaching

7. Captive Redemption: From Dar al-Harb to Dar al-Islam

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Islam
• Medieval History
• Medieval Religion

About the Author

Kathryn A. Miller is assistant professor of history at Stanford University. Her research interests focus on medieval Iberia, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the medieval Mediterranean, commerce, and comparative legal history. Her current research concerns the trade of captives across religious boundaries between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Mediterranean.

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