The privileged Muslim bodyguard employed by Castilian kings provides a fascinating episode of Muslim-Christian relations in late Medieval Spain, where frontier ideals triumphed. Conversion and assimil
Garcia-Arenal (Arab Studies, CISC) examines the nature of Muslim eschatology and messianic beliefs of the period, and what they have to do with the relations between God and men, as well as the relati
In the late fifteenth century, many of the Jews expelled from Spain made their way to Morocco and established a dynamic community in Fez. A number of Jewish families became prominent in commerce and p