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Record Nr.

UNINA9910888900003321

Titolo

Muslim Sicily : Encounters and Legacy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

1-3995-3683-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 pages)

Collana

Advances in the Study of Islam Series

Altri autori (Persone)

Nuha Alshaar

Disciplina

945.802

Soggetti

Religion / Islam / History

Religion / Judaism / History

History / Europe / Italy

History

Religion

Italy History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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