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CONTENTS 8 Acknowledgments xi 12 A Note on Transliteration xvii 18 Chronology xix 20 List of Rulers xxiii 24 PART ONE 30 Introduction 3 32 I. Popular Sources: Accounts of Muslim Captivity in Christendom 29 58 The Captives “Speak”—and Write 41 70 Captivity and the Other 51 80 Captivity and Karamat 55 84 Captivity of Women 60 89 European Captives and New Muslims 65 94 II. Elite Sources: Muslim Ambassadors in Christendom 72 101 Al- Nafhah al- Miskiyah 77 106 Ahmad ibn Qasim and Fakhr al- DIn al- Maʿni II 80 109 The Widening Exposure 93 122 Ambassadors and European Women 106 135 Non-Muslim Ambassadors 114 143 Conclusion: Encountering the Dunya of the Christians 118 147 Nasr 122 151 Sinaʿ a/Technology 125 154 PART TWO 166 Translations 139 168 1. 1578: Letters of Radwan al- Janawy on Muslim Captives, in Tuhfatal- Ikhwan, Rabat National Library, MS Kaf 154, fols. 423–424, 427–428. 141 170 2. After 1588: Description of the Defeat of the Armada, by Abu Faris ’Abd al-ʿAziz al- Fishtali, in Rasa’il Saʿdiyah, ed. ʿAbdallah Gannun, 152–157. 144 173 3. ca. 1589–1591: A Journey from Morocco to Istanbul andBack, in Abu Hasan ʿAli ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAliMuhammad al- Tamjruti:11 Al- Nafhah al- Miskiya

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