THE MAKING OF MEDITERRANEAN EMIRATE

While historians have tended to conceive of Ifriøqiya as a region ruled by the Hafsids, Ramzi Rouighi argues in The Making of a Medi terranean Emirate that the Andalusis who joined the Hafsid court supported economic arrangements and political relationships that ef fectively prevented regional integration from taking place during this period. Rouighi examines an array of documentary, literary, a nd legal sources to argue that Ifriøqiya was integrated neither politically nor economically and that, consequently, it was not a re gion in ...[Read more]