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This book explores how political power was conceptualised, constructed, and wielded in 12th-century al-Andalus, focusing on the eventful reign of Muhammad ibn Sad ibn Ahmad ibn Mardansh (r. 1147-1172). Celebrated in Castilian and Latin sources as El Rey Lobo/Rex Lupus and denigrated by Almohad and later Arabic sources as irreligious and disloyal to fellow Muslims because he fought the Almohads and served as vassal to the Castilians, Ibn Mardansh ruled a kingdom that at its peak constituted nearly half of al-Andalus and served as an important buffer between the Almohads and the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. Through a close examination of contemporary sources across the region, the book shows that Ibn Mardansh's short-lived dynasty was actually an attempt to integrate al-Andalus more closely with the Islamic East-particularly the Abbasid caliphate.

Islam --- History. --- Ibn Mardanīsh, Muḥammad ibn Saʻd, --- Spain --- History --- Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ibn Mardanīsh, --- Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ibn Mardanīsh, --- Judhamī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ibn Mardanīsh, --- Tujībī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ibn Mardanīsh, --- Rex Lupus, --- Rey Lobo, --- Rey Lope, --- Wolf King, --- Failed dynasties, Ibn Mardanīsh, Almohad al-Andalus, Twelfth-century Western Mediterranean history, kingship in the Middle Ages, medieval Iberia and Spain. --- Muslims --- Power (Social sciences) --- Islam and politics --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Kings and rulers --- Religious aspects. --- Civilization --- Islamic influences. --- European history.