Camilo Gómez-Rivas is Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids (2014) and “Berber Rule and Abbasid Legitimacy” in The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia (2020).

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations and Note on Language and DatesPrincipal Characters in the NarrativeIntroductionChapter 1: The PreacherChapter 2: The Queen and Her KingsChapter 3: The DeposedChapter 4: The SonChapter 5: The MahdisChapter 6: The Qadi and the RebelConclusionTime LineGlossary of Key TermsFurther Reading

Camilo Gómez-Rivas is Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids (2014) and “Berber Rule and Abbasid Legitimacy” in The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia (2020).

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations and Note on Language and DatesPrincipal Characters in the NarrativeIntroductionChapter 1: The PreacherChapter 2: The Queen and Her KingsChapter 3: The DeposedChapter 4: The SonChapter 5: The MahdisChapter 6: The Qadi and the RebelConclusionTime LineGlossary of Key TermsFurther Reading

Camilo Gómez-Rivas is Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids (2014) and “Berber Rule and Abbasid Legitimacy” in The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia (2020).

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations and Note on Language and DatesPrincipal Characters in the NarrativeIntroductionChapter 1: The PreacherChapter 2: The Queen and Her KingsChapter 3: The DeposedChapter 4: The SonChapter 5: The MahdisChapter 6: The Qadi and the RebelConclusionTime LineGlossary of Key TermsFurther Reading