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"This volume celebrates Ruiz's scholarship. The macro- and micro-level studies he has realized on regional and local communities, different strata of society, and spectacles of daily life have played a central role in developing the field of Spanish and European histories. These essays span Castile, other Iberian states, Europe, the Mediterranean, and Latin America from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Preliminary Material -- Unity and Disunity across the Strait of Gibraltar /Yuen-Gen Liang , Abigail Krasner Balbale , Andrew Devereux and Camilo Gómez-Rivas -- Slaves and Silver across the Strait of Gibraltar: Politics and Trade between Umayyad Iberia and Khārijite North Africa /Adam Gaiser -- The Preaching of the Almohads: Loyalty and Resistance across the Strait of Gibraltar /Linda G. Jones -- The Last Almohads: Universal Sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon /Hussein Fancy -- "The Types of Wisdom Are Two in Number": Judah ibn Tibbon's Quotation from the Iḥyā' 'ulūm al-Dīn /S.J. Pearce -- Of Corsairs, Converts and Renegades: Forms and Functions of Coastal Raiding on Both Sides of the Far Western Mediterranean /David Coleman -- The Mahdī in Valencia: Messianism, Apocalypticism and Morisco Rebellions in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain /Marya T. Green-Mercado -- Book Reviews /Clifford R. Backman , Travis Bruce , Patrick Harris , Capucine Nemo-Pekelman , Brenda S. Gardenour Walter , Alexandra Cuffel , Pamela A. Patton and Miguel Ángel Vázquez -- Index.