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Medieval Sicily, al-Andalus, and the Maghrib : Writing in Times of Turmoil /

This book explores a millennium of literary exchanges among the peoples of the Maghrib, or westernmost strongholds of medieval Islam. In the seventh century, Muslim expansion into the western Mediterranean initiated a new phase in the layering of heterogeneous peoples and languages in this contact z...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Symes, Carol (Editor ), Carpentieri, Nicola (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Medieval globe.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Nicola Carpentieri and Carol Symes
  • The Indiculus luminosus and the creation of a ninth-century prophetic conflict between Christianity and Islam / Andrew Sorber
  • Empire and Caliphate in the Life of John of Gorze / Natalie Dawn Levin
  • The writing of Munāẓarāt in times of turmoil : disputations in Fatimid Ifrīqiya / Aslisho Qurboniev
  • Messaging and memory : notes from medieval Ifrīqiya and Sicily / Alex Metcalfe
  • "And God dispersed their unity" : historiographical patterns in recounting the end of Muslim rule in Sicily and al-Andalus / Roberta Denaro
  • A wondrous past, a dangerous present : the Egyptian temple of Akhmīm and the Martorana church in Palermo, as seen through Ibn Jubayr's travelogue / Giovanna Calasso
  • How does a Moorish prince become a Roman Caesar? Fictions and Forgeries, emperors and others from the Spanish "Flores" romances to the Lead Books of Granada / Keith Budner.