Narrating Muslim Sicily : war and peace in the medieval Mediterranean world /

Narrating Muslim Sicily : war and peace in the medieval Mediterranean world /

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Author / Creator:	Granara, William, author.
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Imprint:	London : I.B. Tauris, 2021. ©2019
Description:	xv, 215 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The early and medieval Islamic world Early and medieval Islamic world.
Subject:	Middle Ages. Civilization. Middle Ages. Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 800-1016. Mediterranean Region -- Civilization. Italy -- Sicily. Mediterranean Region. History.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12673966

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ISBN:	9780755638543 0755638549 9781788313063
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-204) and index.
Summary:	"In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating and linguistic experience, William Granara here focuses on the various ways in which medieval Arab historians, geographers, jurists and philologists imagined and articulated their ever-changing identities in this turbulent period. All of these authors sought to make sense of the island's dramatic twists, including conquest and struggles over political sovereignty, and the painful decline of social and cultural life. Writing about Siqilliya involved drawing from memory, conjecture and then-current theories of why nations and people rose and fell. In so doing, Granara considers and translates, often for the first time, a vast range of primary sources--from the master chronicles of Ibn al-Athir and Ibn Khadun to biographical dictionaries, geographical works, legal treatises and poetry--and modern scholarship not available in English. He charts the shift from Sicily as 'warrior outpost' to vital and productive hub that would transform the medieval Islamic world, and indeed the entire Mediterranean."--Back cover.

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Call Number:	DG867.13 .G73 2021
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