The Muslims of medieval Italy / Alex Metcalfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metcalfe, A. (Alex)

Series:

New Edinburgh Islamic surveys.

New Edinburgh Islamic surveys

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Italy--History.

Muslims.

Muslims--Italy--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 of Muslim authority in regions that were to fall into the hands of European rulers, and explains how and why Muslim and Norman conquests imported radically different dynamics to the central Mediterranean. On the island of Sicily, a majority Muslim population came to be ruled by Christian kings who

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes and abbreviations; Genealogical tables, maps and figures; Genealogical tables; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Figures Section 1; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Figures Section 2; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-8843-9

1-322-98136-1

0-7486-2911-4

OCLC:

650246468