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A guide to law, scholars, mosques, endowments, taxes, conversion, religious boundaries, and institutional life in the western Islamic world.
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The Moriscos: Conversion, Revolt, Expulsion
A post-1492 route through Mudejar and Morisco terms, forced conversion, revolt, expulsion, diaspora, memory, and careful evidence.
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Daily Life in Moorish Societies
A social-history route through cities, work, food, clothing, households, religious minorities, slavery, and uneven everyday evidence.
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Law, Religion, and Institutions
A guided route through Maliki law, scholars, judges, mosques, waqf, taxes, conversion, religious boundaries, and institutional life.
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The Ulama: Scholars, Judges, and Political Power
A guide to the ulama as scholars, jurists, judges, teachers, advisers, and sometimes critics who shaped law, learning, public authority, and political legitimacy.
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Conversion, Intermarriage, and Boundary-Making
A careful guide to conversion, intermarriage, and religious boundary-making in al-Andalus, separating legal norms, social practice, coercion, opportunity, and later memory.
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Maliki Law in the Maghreb and al-Andalus
A guide to Maliki law as a major legal tradition in the western Islamic world, explaining jurists, judges, local practice, political power, and source limits.
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Mosques, Madrasas, and Endowments (Waqf): How Institutions Worked
A guide to mosques, madrasas, and waqf endowments as institutions for worship, teaching, charity, property, urban life, and public authority.
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Sufism and Spiritual Life in the Western Islamic World
A careful guide to Sufism and spiritual life in the western Islamic world, distinguishing devotional practice, scholarly debate, sainthood, memory, and source limits.
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Taxes and Governance: Zakat, Jizya, and State Finance (What We Can Prove)
A source-aware guide to taxation and state finance in al-Andalus, including zakat, jizya, land revenue, coinage, tribute, markets, and what the evidence can prove.
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Religion, Law, and Institutions
A guide to law, scholars, mosques, endowments, taxes, conversion, religious boundaries, and institutional life in the western Islamic world.