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Autore |
Metcalfe A (Alex) |
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Titolo |
The Muslims of medieval Italy [[electronic resource] /] / Alex Metcalfe |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-7486-8843-9 |
1-322-98136-1 |
0-7486-2911-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Collana |
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New Edinburgh Islamic surveys |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Muslims - Italy - History |
Muslims - Italy - Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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