"NOTAS SOBRE LEGITIMIDAD, HEGEMONIA Y PODER POLITICO EN ALANDALUS Y EL MAGREB DURANTE LOS SIGLOS XIII Y XIV"

Abstract

The present paper reviews the main political factors of Islamic West in the Low Middle Ages, with the collapse of the so-called Almohad Empire and the appearance of four new sultanates (Granada, Fes, Tlemcen and Tunis), that will struggle to fill its ideological-political space and its hegemony. It is especially centered in the case of Nasrids and Marinids, whose political performance lets see enough similarities: the non-existence of a new religious program that must be compensated with a precise historiographical pattern, the export of an ideology of supremacy and territorial expansion, the need to defend the statu quo, or the repeated appeal for yˆiha¯d, not always effective.