Description:
A comprehensive account of two of the most important empires in medieval North Africa.
Brief description: Amira K. Bennison is a Reader in the History and Culture of the Maghrib at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College.. She is author of The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire (2009) and co-editor (with Alison L. Gascoigne) of Cities in the Premodern Islamic World (2007).
Review Quotes: Given the importance of the subject, it is astonishing that this is the first full length study in English of these two empires. Bennison's thoughtful and well researched book marks a major advance in our understanding of this important period in the history of the Maghreb and the Iberian peninsula. It will be widely appreciated by scholars and students alike.-- "Hugh Kennedy, SOAS University of London"