Power in the portrayal: representations of Jews and Muslims in eleventh- and twelfth-century Islamic Spain

Introduction: Power in the portrayal

Force of character: three eleventh-century Andalusi-Muslim views of Ismā'īl ibn Naghrīla (Samuel the Nagid) (Ṭaqabāt al-umam; Ibn Ḥayyān al-Qurṭubī apud al-Iḥāṭa fī akhbār gharnāṭa; al-Tibyān)

An Andalusi-Muslim literary typology of Jewish heresy and sedition: al-Fiṣal fī l-milal wal-ahwā' wal-niḥal and Al-Radd `alā ibn al-naghrīla al-yahūdī (`Alī ibn Ḥazm)

Textualizing ambivalence: Ibn Bassām's literary miscellany, The treasury concerning the merits of the people of Iberia (al-Dhakhīra fī maḥāsin ahl al-jazīra)

Muslim counterparts, rivals, mentors, and foes: a trope of Andalusi-Jewish identity? The problem of Andalusi-Jewish representations of Muslims

The silence of the Jews: Judah al-Ḥarizi's Picaresque tale of the Muslim astrologer.