The Muslims of medieval Italy

The Muslims of medieval Italy / Alex Metcalfe.

This significant new work focuses on the formation and fragmentation of an Arab-Muslim state and its society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300, which led to the formation of an enduring Muslim-Christian frontier during the age of the Crusades. It examines the long- and short-term impact...

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Main Author: Metcalfe, A. (Alex)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Series:New Edinburgh Islamic surveys.
Subjects:
To 1500
Geschichte 800-1300
Muslims > Italy > History > To 1500.
Muslims > Italy > Sicily > History > To 1500.
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
HISTORY.
HISTORY / Medieval
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Islam
Muslims
Italy > History > 476-1268.
Sicily (Italy) > History > 800-1016.
Italy
Italy > Sicily
Sizilien
Italien > Süd
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Muslim expansion into the central Mediterranean
  • The consolidation of Muslim authority in Sicily
  • Fatimid rule in Sicily
  • The civil war and Sicilian ṭā'ifa period
  • The Norman conquest of Muslim Sicily
  • Muslims under early Norman rule : churches, charters and lordships
  • The Muslims in the kingdom of Sicily
  • The Normans in Africa
  • The Muslim massacres of the 1160s
  • Eunuchs, familiars, collaborators and conspirators
  • Monreale and the Muslims
  • The art of leisure
  • The science of power
  • The Muslim revolts and the colony at Lucera.

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