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ix Acknowledgments I am grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities for generous fellowship support for this project. I also owe a debt of gratitude to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University for granting me a resident scholarship for one semester, and the College of the Liberal Arts at the Pennsylvania State University for a sabbatical granting me time away from teaching and administrative responsibilities to learn, research , and write more intensively. I learned about Islamic law, the Maliki madhhab (school of law), and Andalusi and Maghribi jurists and texts from the work of a number of eminent scholars and benefited tremendously over the years it took to develop this project from the well-directed references, perceptive questions, and comments of many scholars and students. These include the comments of anonymous readers for articles I wrote along the way, and the recommendations of the editors of Speculum, History of Religions, and Comparative Islamic Studies . Thank you, all. I would like to single out for acknowledgment four scholars who read the manuscript in different stages of its development with thoughtful attention and provided me with guidance: David S. Powers, Simon R. Doubleday, David J. Wasserstein, and Thomas F. Glick. The book is far better for their care, and its shortcomings are my own. Two workshops at different ends of the writing process helped me formulate my approach and my conclusions: the Medieval and Early Modern History Workshop at Brown University and a workshop in Madrid on the legal status of dhimmis in the Muslim West sponsored by two European Research Council Seventh Framework Programme Advanced Research Grants (one directed by Maribel Fierro, the other by John Tolan), and hosted by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and by the Casa de Velázquez. I would like to thank Tara Nummedal and Caroline Castiglione for inviting me to the first, John Tolan and Maribel Fierro for inviting me to the second, and all involved for such stimulating occasions for discussion. Family provides special support, and that, too, merits acknowledgment. Heartfelt thanks to Dan and Anna, and Anita, Liz, and Abby. DEFINING BOUNDARIES IN AL-ANDALUS ...

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