Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur (1578-1603) was one of the most significant rulers in the history of Morocco, which to this day bears the mark of his twenty-five year rule in the sixteenth century. A brilliant
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