"NOTAS SOBRE LEGITIMIDAD, HEGEMONIA Y PODER POLITICO EN ALANDALUS Y EL MAGREB DURANTE LOS SIGLOS XIII Y XIV"

Authors

  • Miguel Ángel Manzano Rodríguez

Keywords:

Islamic West, Low Middle Ages, Marinids, Nas rids, Zayyanids, Hafsids, hegemony, legitimacy, dynastic conflicts, yihad

Abstract

The present paper reviews the main political factors of Islamic West in the Low Middle Ages, with the collapse of the so-called Almohad Empire and the appearance of four new sultanates (Granada, Fes, Tlemcen and Tunis), that will struggle to fill its ideological-political space and its hegemony. It is especially centered in the case of Nasrids and Marinids, whose political performance lets see enough similarities: the non-existence of a new religious program that must be compensated with a precise historiographical pattern, the export of an ideology of supremacy and territorial expansion, the need to defend the statu quo, or the repeated appeal for yˆiha¯d, not always effective.

Author Biography

Miguel Ángel Manzano Rodríguez

Universidad de Salamanca