Muslim Sicily : Encounters and Legacy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nuha Alshaar

Series:

Advances in the Study of Islam Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Religion.

Italy--History.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Showcases the importance of cultural exchange through an exploration of Sicily's Arabo-Islamic past.

Contents:

Intro

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Preface

1 Sicily's Islamic Heritage: A Pervasive Culture

Part 1 Sicily and North Africa: Sociocultural and Political Links

2 Sociocultural Links between Sicily and Ifrīqiya in the Middle Ages

3 The Kalbids of Sicily: Stalwarts of Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya

Part 2 Arabo-Islamic Philosophical and Intellectual Traditions of Sicily

4 From Averroes to Dante: A Mediterranean Encounter between Philosophy and Religion

5 Two Examples of Arabic Texts in Sicily, between Linguistics and Philosophy

6 Psychological and Epistemological Concepts in Ibn Sabʿīn's al-Masāʾil al-Ṣiqilliyya (The Sicilian Questions)

Part 3 Sicily and its Textile and Artistic Traditions

7 Common Threads: Women and the Making of Fāṭimid and Norman Textiles

8 Architectural and Numismatic Traces of Arabic Cultural Exchange between Sicily and Greater Syria

9 On the Artistic Culture of Medieval Sicily

Part 4 Sicily, Literature, Language and Identity

10 The Poetic Traditions of Sicily under Fāṭimid and Kalbid Rule

11 Arab-Muslim Accounts of Medieval Sicily and the Qurʾān: An Intertextual Reading

12 Consequences of the Reconquista in Greater Sicily for the Core Vocabulary of Maltese

13 Trinacria: Three Worlds in One Island (Christians, Jews and Muslims)

Appendix of Arabic Poetry Cited in Chapter Ten

Index.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

1-3995-3683-4

OCLC:

1460024440