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This collection of articles focuses on the period between the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and the formation of the Islamic society of al-Andalus. Subjects dealt with include the transformations in cities and countryside, patterns of settlement and ethnic and religious affiliations.

Based on original sources, this book questions the conventional wisdom that Mediterranean Muslim women are passive people subjected to the tyranny and misogyny of religion, society and male relatives. Encompassing everything from medieval love poetry to popular literary sources these studies bear witness to the fact that individual women of all social classes play pivotal roles in both the private domains of sociey and in the public realm.