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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Metcalfe, Alex (1967-....)
Titre(s) : The Muslims of medieval Italy [Texte imprimé] / Alex Metcalfe
Publication : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xv, 314 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Collection : The new Edinburgh Islamic surveys
Lien à la collection : The new Edinburgh Islamic surveys
Comprend : Muslim expansion into the central Mediterranean ; The consolidation of Muslim authority
in Sicily ; Fatimid rule in Sicily ; The civil war and Sicilian ṭā'ifa period
; The Norman conquest of Muslim Sicily ; Muslims under early Norman rule : churches,
charters and lordships ; The Muslims in the kingdom of Sicily ; The Normans in Africa
; The Muslim massacres of the 1160s ; Eunuchs, familiars, collaborators and conspirators
; Monreale and the Muslims ; The art of leisure ; The science of power ; The Muslim
revolts and the colony at Lucera.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
This significant new work focuses on the formation and disintegration of Arab-Muslim
rule and society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300 which led to the creation
of an enduring Muslim-Christian frontier during the age of the Crusades. It examines
the long and short-term impact of Islamic authority and culture on these regions and
how they later fell into the hands of European rulers, explaining how the Norman conquest
of Sicily came to import radically different dynamics to the central Mediterranean.
The change of ruling elites left a majority Muslim population under Christian rule,
but the Sicilian kings also adopted and adapted political ideologies from south Mediterranean
regimes while absorbing cultural influences from the diverse peoples over whom they
ruled. This work provides an engaging, expert and wide-ranging introduction to the
subject and offers fresh and clear insights into the politico-religious, socio-economic
and cultural evolution of Europe and the Islamic world. -- Back cover
Sujet(s) : Musulmans -- Italie -- Moyen âge
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780748620074 (hbk.). - ISBN 0748620079 (hbk.). - ISBN 0748620087 (pbk.). - ISBN
9780748620081 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438045447
Notice n° :
FRBNF43804544
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