Based on extensive research in Arabic, Latin, and Romance sources, The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon explores the little-known and misunderstood history of Muslim soldiers recruited by the Christian kings of Aragon in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to serve in their armies and royal courts. Hussein Fancy *08 argues that study of the alliance of these Christian kings and Muslim soldiers offers a unique opportunity to reconsider the relation of medieval religion to politics. Fancy is an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan.
