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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459459203321

Autore

Metcalfe A (Alex)

Titolo

The Muslims of medieval Italy [[electronic resource] /] / Alex Metcalfe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-7486-8843-9

1-322-98136-1

0-7486-2911-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

New Edinburgh Islamic surveys

Disciplina

945.03

Soggetti

Muslims - Italy - History

Muslims - Italy - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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