Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the citation of sources, dates, places, and names
- Glossary
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- Part I Muslim domination of the Ebro and its demise, 700–1200
- Part II Muslims under Christian rule
- INTRODUCTION
- 3 THE FINANCIAL AND JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION OF MUDÉJAR SOCIETY
- 4 MUSLIMS IN THE ECONOMY OF THE CHRISTIAN EBRO
- 5 MUDÉJAR ETHNICITY AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
- 6 MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
- MUDEJARISMO AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM
- Part III INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY IN THE CHRISTIAN EBRO
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth series
4 - MUSLIMS IN THE ECONOMY OF THE CHRISTIAN EBRO
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the citation of sources, dates, places, and names
- Glossary
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- Part I Muslim domination of the Ebro and its demise, 700–1200
- Part II Muslims under Christian rule
- INTRODUCTION
- 3 THE FINANCIAL AND JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION OF MUDÉJAR SOCIETY
- 4 MUSLIMS IN THE ECONOMY OF THE CHRISTIAN EBRO
- 5 MUDÉJAR ETHNICITY AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
- 6 MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
- MUDEJARISMO AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM
- Part III INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY IN THE CHRISTIAN EBRO
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth series
Summary
The institutional development of the aljama exerted a powerful force on local mudéjar society, but in the realm of fiscal and judicial administration the lines between Christian and Muslim communities were seldom firmly drawn. In any event, justice and finance are only two of the aspects which contribute to the formation of identity. For instance, people's sense of self is also shaped by the economic activities in which they engage, and the formal and informal social networks which they participate in as a consequence. Thus, in the Ebro Valley the economy was a powerful engine of integration, all the more so because Muslims' range of economic activity was wide. This variety was due in a good part to the fact that the vast majority of these people were “free” subjects with little restriction on their movement or their ability to dispose of goods. Although there were exceptions, no general pattern of loss of such rights can be discerned over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Given mudéjares' number and civil status, commercial and productive activities would have served to integrate them into the wider society of the Crown both as individuals and as a community. In a manner analogous to the effect which Christian administrative domination had on Muslim institutions, participation in Christian markets drew mudéjares into “Occidental” modes of economic interchange.
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- The Victors and the VanquishedChristians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300, pp. 179 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004