El objetivo principal planteado en esta obra es la reconstitución de la historia de individuos y grupos políticos, religiosos y sociales como actores de la escena magrebí entre los siglos II/VIII y IX/XV. La primera parte de la obra está dedicada al mundo ibadí magrebí. En este bloque, el lector encontrará trabajos basados en fuentes diversas del ámbito ibadí pero también textos no ibadíes que proporcionan datos de importancia sobre este medio. El segundo bloque está dedicado a personajes destacados que ejercieron un papel excepcional en la historia del Magreb medieval. En esta parte se hace patente el uso de varios tipos de fuentes que pueden a veces plantear problemas de credibilidad del propio contenido de los textos. Estamos ante el estudio de individuos que viajan entre la historia y la leyenda, y al mismo tiempo sirven los intereses de las historiografías de sus respectivas épocas. En el tercer bloque encontramos trabajos relacionados con escritores y personajes destacados de la vida intelectual y política del Magreb, entre los siglos VI/XII y IX/XV. El cuarto y último bloque está dedicado a grupos tribales, elites religiosas y círculos de poder. Estos estudios están basados en buena parte en las fuentes árabes del Occidente islámico pero también en textos producidos en el sur del Magreb y en documentos cristianos. Finalmente, esperamos que los trabajos reunidos en este volumen brinden la oportunidad de reflexionar acerca de varios temas de historia social y permitan entender mejor algunos de sus aspectos considerando el Magreb como parte integrante del mundo árabe-musulmán medieval y, al mismo tiempo, como "margen" del Oriente.

Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization. It covers a wide range of intellectual activity in the first three centuries of Islam, such as the study of ḥadīth, the Qurʾān, Arabic language and literature, and history. Individually and taken together, the articles provide important new insights and make an important contribution to scholarship on early Islam. The authors, whose work reflects an affinity with Juynboll's research interests, are all experts in their fields. Pointing to the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and signalling lacunae, their contributions show how scholarship has advanced since Juynboll's days. Contributors: Camilla Adang, Monique Bernards, Léon Buskens, Ahmed El Shamsy, Maribel Fierro, Aisha Geissinger, Geert Jan van Gelder, Claude Gilliot, Robert Gleave, Asma Hilali, Michael Lecker, Scott Lucas, Christopher Melchert, Pavel Pavlovitch, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Roberto Tottoli, and Peter Webb.

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography. A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in historical narrative is not incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative: providing tangible evidence of the narrator’s reliability while provoking an affective response in the audience. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators’ own bodies and makes them useful but subversive tools of communication and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse complements recent work in medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean studies to account for the confessional, ethnic, linguistic, and political diversity of the region. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, the book responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries.

Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids. The Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib investigates the development of legal institutions in the Far Maghrib during its unification with al-Andalus under the Almoravids (434-530/1042-1147). A major contribution to our understanding of the twelfth-century Maghrib and the foundational role played by the Almoravids, it posits that political unification occurred alongside urban transformation and argues that legal institutions developed in response to the social needs of the growing urban spaces as well as to the administrative needs of the state. Such social needs included the regulation of market exchange, the settlement of commercial disputes, and the privatization and individualization of property.

This book represents an original and innovative series of insights, ideas and questions concerning inclusive education and cross-cultural understandings. Drawing on historical and cultural material, policy developments, legislation and research findings, the book provides a critical exploration of key factors including inclusive education, human rights, change, diversity and special educational needs. The contributors focus closely on how these factors are defined and experienced within particular societies.