The Muslims of Medieval Italy / / Alex Metcalfe.

Explores Arab-Muslim rule and society in Sicily and south Italy from 800 to 1300GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748620081);This significant work focuses on the formation and disintegration of Arab-Muslim rule and society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300 which led to the cre...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2009
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys : NEIS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes and abbreviations
  • Genealogical tables, maps and figures
  • Genealogical tables
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1 Muslim expansion into the central Mediterranean
  • 2 The consolidation of Muslim authority in Sicily
  • 3 Fatimid rule in Sicily
  • 4 The civil war and Sicilian ṭā’ifa period
  • 5 The Norman conquest of Muslim Sicily
  • 6 Muslims under early Norman rule: churches, charters and lordships
  • 7 The Muslims in the kingdom of Sicily
  • 8 The Normans in Africa
  • 9 The Muslim massacres of the 1160s
  • 10 Eunuchs, familiars, collaborators and conspirators
  • 11 Monreale and the Muslims
  • 12 The art of leisure
  • 13 The science of power
  • 14 The Muslim revolts and the colony at Lucera
  • Index