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The Muslims of medieval Italy /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Metcalfe, A. (Alex)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Colección:New Edinburgh Islamic surveys.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.