Messianism and Puritanical Reform
Biographical note
Mercedes García-Arenal, Ph.D. (1976) in the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, is Research Professor at the CSIC. She has published extensively on Early Modern Maghreb and on Muslim and Jewish minorities in Spain. Her last book, with G.A. Wiegers is A man of three worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe (John Hopkins UP, 2003)
Readership
All those interested in the history of North Africa and Muslim Spain, both Medieval and Early Modern historians, Arabists, scholars of the history of religions, students and scholars of Islamic History, but also anthropologists and social historians.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. The Time of the Prophets. The Conversion of the Maghreb to Islam
Chapter Two. The Rise of the Fa†imid Dynasty
Chapter Three. Berber Prophets and Messianic Rebels in Muslim Spain
Chapter Four. The Contribution of Legalism to Mahdism: Rigour, Censorship, Violence
Chapter Five. The Contribution of Sufism to Mahdism: Prophethood and Grace
Chapter Six. The Almohad Revolution and the Mahdi Ibn Tumart
Chapter Seven. Mahdism after the Almohads
Chapter Eight. The Marinids and Sharifism
Chapter Nine. The Rise of the Sa'did Dynasty
Chapter Ten. A˙mad al-Manßur al-Dhahabi
Chapter Eleven. The last Spanish Muslims: Messianic prophetism among the Moriscos
Chapter Twelve. Ibn Abi Ma˙alli and his adversaries
Concluding Remarks
Sources and Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. The Time of the Prophets. The Conversion of the Maghreb to Islam
Chapter Two. The Rise of the Fa†imid Dynasty
Chapter Three. Berber Prophets and Messianic Rebels in Muslim Spain
Chapter Four. The Contribution of Legalism to Mahdism: Rigour, Censorship, Violence
Chapter Five. The Contribution of Sufism to Mahdism: Prophethood and Grace
Chapter Six. The Almohad Revolution and the Mahdi Ibn Tumart
Chapter Seven. Mahdism after the Almohads
Chapter Eight. The Marinids and Sharifism
Chapter Nine. The Rise of the Sa'did Dynasty
Chapter Ten. A˙mad al-Manßur al-Dhahabi
Chapter Eleven. The last Spanish Muslims: Messianic prophetism among the Moriscos
Chapter Twelve. Ibn Abi Ma˙alli and his adversaries
Concluding Remarks
Sources and Bibliography
Index
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